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“Why you starin’ at me, son?”

“Just wonderin’—”

“—if I know anything about babies?” His dad smiled. “Been awhile, but we did have two boys at once, so I’ve done my fair share of holdin’ and rockin’ and feedin’ babies.”

Kade hadn’t considered that. “Well, call me on my cell if you need anything. We’ll be back in an hour.”

“Take your time,” Kimi said. “Have fun, we’ll be fine.”

Skylar seemed reluctant to go.

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Kade skimmed his hand down her arm, threading their fingers together. “I wouldn’t leave her, or ask you to leave her if I thought there’d be a problem.”

“I know.”

“The clock is tickin’. I want you.” He nuzzled her ear. “I want to feel your mouth on me.” They wended their way through campers, horse trailers and trucks. For once he didn’t run into anyone he knew, so he wasn’t forced to make small talk.

Which was a good thing. His brain was stuck on the image of Skylar looking up at him with his cock deep in her throat.

At Colt’s horse trailer, he lightly rapped on the door to the sleeping quarters. “Colt?

You in there?”

No answer.

Kade removed the key and unlocked the door. Skylar stepped up first and he followed. After he pulled the shades and flipped the inside lock, he reached for her.

She melted into him, into the steamy kiss. He sensed a change in her, an acceptance.

It’d be easy to back off and be the undemanding, patient lover he’d been in the past. But he wanted so much more. For both of them. And he didn’t want to wait.

His lips slipped to her ear. “On your knees.”

She didn’t even hesitate. She used her hands on his body to support herself on her way down until she was kneeling.

“That’s real good. Now undo my belt.”

A couple of tugs and the heavy buckle hung by his right hip and the strap by his left hip. She started on the zipper without asking. If he really was a controlling bastard, he’d point out she hadn’t followed his instructions. Instead he watched as she let her instincts take over.

Zipper undone, Kade peeled the Wranglers and boxers down his legs until they hit the tops of his boots. The tail of his long shirt covered his erection, and he hastily unbuttoned it so there were no barriers between them.

Skylar inhaled sharply at the sight of his hard cock slapping against his belly. “I’ll warn you. I’ve never been very good at this.”

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“Let me decide that.”

“Just don’t judge me too harshly.”

“I’d never judge.” He tenderly brushed the hair from her forehead. “I’m gonna love everything you do to me. Touch me, sweetheart. Please.”

She didn’t grab the stiff rod, instead, she delicately cupped his balls. He groaned as she rolled the tight sac between her slender fingers like she was weighing dice. Then with deliberate care, she swept her thumb up center of his dick, allowing her nail to gently scrape under the rim of the swollen cockhead.

His cock twitched shamelessly for her attention.

Sky feathered her thumb through the fluid leaking from the tip. Loosely curling her fingers around his girth, she started to stroke.

Kade palmed the side of her face, bringing her mouth closer. “No hands yet. Mouth first. Lick it.”

That pink tongue shot out and lapped at the vein throbbing up the length of his cock, from his tight balls to the tip. And slowly back down. And back up. On the last, gradual, wet pass, she wrapped her lips around the cockhead and sucked.

“Oh yeah. More. Suck it in.”

Her tentative hands inched up his thighs. He looked down to see her full lips separate to impart the intimate kiss. Bit by bit his cock disappeared into the warm haven of her mouth.

Kade hissed.

Encouraged by his moans, she took him deeper with each teasing wet glide, her movements more rhythmic, more confident. The tip of her tongue flicked the sweet spot below the slit as he pulled out, making his breath stutter and his head spin like an unbalanced tractor tire.

She offered him a secret smile, sucked intently and that wicked tongue flickered all over the good spots she’d discovered.

Tingles raced up the back of his thighs like a thousand electric fingers. If he closed his eyes, he’d fall on his ass. The sensation of her avid mouth, the scrape of her teeth, the 126

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curl of her tongue working his cock were mind blowing. Shutting his eyes meant not seeing this earthy, sexy woman learning to pleasure him. Watching her discover that pleasing her lover was as powerful and freeing as being on the receiving end of complete sexual attention.

His balls tightened. “You’re keepin’ me nice ’n wet. It’s so fuckin’ hot feelin’ your mouth all warm and slippery. You like doin’ this to me, doncha?”

Skylar nodded even as her head bobbed.

“See how deep you can take me.”

She breathed through her nose as he eased in until her lips were pressed to his pelvis and he was buried in that beautiful throat.

“Yes.” He withdrew. “Again.” His damn knees shook with the need to come. He returned to shallow, quick strokes. Kade grabbed her right hand and circled it around his dick at the base. He lifted her chin so he could see her eyes. “Jesus. You should see the look on your face. So goddamn wanton you steal my breath, woman.” He swept his thumb across the tantalizing line of her jawbone. “Stroke me with your hand while you’re suckin’ me.”

“Like this?” She pumped his shaft from root halfway up the length a couple of times.

“Not so tight. There. Christ. Like that. Oh fuck,
exactly
like that.”

When Sky brought her mouth into play with her hands, the hot, wet suctioning concentration on the sensitive cockhead, he began to bump his hips, needing this submission from her. He threaded his fingers into her soft hair and the cool scent of rain-soaked flowers, an aroma uniquely hers, filled his lungs.

“God your mouth is so… Almost there. Faster. Yeah. Come on come on come on.

Shit. There it is, open, wider, ahh, yes. Suck. More. Harder.” Kade resisted thrusting deep into her throat by releasing her hair and clenching his fists at his sides. His head fell back as liquid fire shot out of his balls and up his throbbing shaft. His cock spasmed in hot bursts on her tongue that slid down her throat as she gulped every spurt.

Sheer heaven.

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After the last pulse tapered off, Skylar let him slip from her mouth. She nuzzled his thigh and kissed the vulnerable skin between his hipbones on her way to rub her cheek against the inside of his other leg.

“Skylar.”

“Hmm.”

He looked at her as she stared up at him. “You’re beautiful.”

Her lips were fuller, redder, and ripe for kissing. They were also curved into what resembled a smirk.

“Why you smirkin’ at me?”

“Because I never liked doing that before. Never thought I was very good at it.”

He murmured, “I beg to disagree.”

“It was different with you, Kade.”

“Why do you think that is, sweetheart?”

“Because you told me exactly what you wanted.”

“Is that all?”

She thought about it and shook her head.

“You got nothin’ to lose by bein’ honest.”

“The truth is, sucking you off, making you go a little crazy, knowing I was taking you there was as much of a turn on for me as it was for you.”

Her admission made him grin like a loon. “You still turned on?”

“Unbelievably.”

He lifted her to her feet. She insisted on helping him get redressed, not in a sexual way, but in a sweetly intimate way. Buttoning, smoothing, straightening his shirt across his chest. The kind of fussy motions a wife might perform for her husband.

Kade managed a husky, “C’mere.” He clamped his hands on her ass to make sure she stayed put. He took his time kissing her, loving the way she unconsciously rubbed and arched into him. After indulging himself with a thorough taste of her too-tempting neck, he whispered, “I want you imaginin’ all the places I’m gonna touch you tonight when we 128

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get home. However I please. Wherever I please. As long as I please. You wonderin’

where I’ll start?”

“Yes.”

“Could be I’ll spread you across the back of the couch and lick you from here—”

Kade ran his thumbs from her tailbone up to her nape, “—to here.”

She shivered and released a tiny moan.

“Maybe I’ll start with bitin’ your toes. Or maybe I’ll be so crazy to feel your pretty snatch grippin’ my cock that I’ll pin you to the floor in the hallway and fuck your brains out. Right there on that flowered rug.” He blew in her ear. “No matter what scenario I choose, Skylar, remember
I
get to decide when you come. Not you.”

“Oh.”

“I can tell you want to come right now. Can’t you almost feel my fingers strokin’

your wet pussy? One, then two pushin’ deep? You ridin’ my hand so my palm is teasin’

your clit? Your moans are urgin’ me to go faster, to press harder, to sink deeper?” His teeth lightly scored the outside of her ear. “Are you throbbin’ between your legs?”

“God. Kade. Please.”

“Soon. But don’t be sneakin’ into the bathroom to get yourself off because I’ll know.

And I will not be a happy camper, darlin’, because I want you to be primed for everything I can give you tonight. Promise me.”

Skylar panted against his neck. He heard her swallow hard. “I promise.”

“Good enough.”

Skylar’s skin was so hypersensitive she feared a single touch, even an accidental brush of Kade’s callused finger on her hand would send her careening into an orgasm. In public.

Her first thought was to put distance between them. Get Eliza and come up with an excuse to leave. Since Kade had to unload the horses at Colt’s before he came home, she’d have time to find a semblance of composure before the man set to breaking it down again.

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“Skylar?”

She blinked. “What?”

“You wanna wander around and wait for the presentation of the buckles and awards?

Colt and I did finish in the money.”

Her neck flushed in memory of Kade on a horse. Of Kade with a rope. His power, grace, concentration and speed. She could not wait to have all of that completely focused on her. “I never said congratulations on second place. You’ve gotta be happy.”

“Not bad for two ranchers who haven’t team roped for years.”

“You guys looked damn good. Although, I did lose twenty bucks to your cousin Chassie.”

Kade’s eyes widened. “You bet on me?”

“I wasn’t gonna bet against you.”

“That’s so damn sweet.” He smiled. “C’mere and give me some sugar.”

“Huh-uh. We don’t need any additional rumors flying about us.”

“What rumors?”

“Besides the one we’re living in sin?”

“Which is your fault, sweetheart, ’cause I’ve asked you to marry me. More than once. Try again.”

Crap. Good thing she hadn’t said,
living with their secret love child.
She’d never live that down. She took a different, flirty tack, which felt damn good. “With the hot and bothered way you’ve left me? I can’t guarantee I won’t jump you, or sneak off to touch myself, earning myself a whole passel of trouble for doing either, without your permission, if I simply hold your hand.”

“There’s part that’s hopin’ the ‘jumpin’ on me’ school of thought wins out.”

Outside the horse trailer, Skylar started toward the picnic area where Eliza was and Kade snagged her elbow. “I thought we were gonna wander around.”

“Don’t you want your parents to see the presentation? Beings that you placed and all?”

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“Shoot. I hadn’t thought of that. I’ll tell them meet us by the north end.” After he made the call, he said, “Been a while since I’ve had a beer and I sure could use one, how about you?”

Now that Sky thought about it, she hadn’t seen Kade touch a drop of alcohol since he’d moved in. “Sure. I’m curious, didn’t you drink when we went out last year?”

“Used to. Don’t so much any more.” They walked in silence until they were through the parking lot and standing in front of the beer tent. He paid for two drafts, gesturing for her to precede him into the seating area.

“Thanks.”

“No problem.” Kade sipped the foamy goodness, licked his lips and sighed.

“Just so you know, if you want to keep beer in the fridge, I’m fine with that. I’m sure Eliza wouldn’t mind if you had the occasional beer either.”

His eyebrows drew together. “You think the reason I’m not drinkin’ is because of Eliza? It’s not. It’s ’cause of Colt. And it ain’t just about the drinkin’ entirely. Other issues surfaced because of it, things that’d been simmerin’ for years.” His thumb rubbed the lip on the plastic cup, as he seemed to struggle for the right words. “I’m talkin’ about family stuff, fistfights, hard words, unspoken resentment that was pittin’ brother against brother. I wondered if any of us was ever gonna be able to work together on the ranch again. I was glad to get out of there. Last year was the ugliest, lowest point of my life.”

She didn’t interrupt.

“Colt’s been sober for a year. I’m proud of him and I respect his sobriety enough that I don’t drink around him. I haven’t been drinkin’ at all in the last year anyway.”

“Not many honky-tonks up in the north forty?”

“No. Funny thing is, Colt was supposed to head up the cattle grazin’ experiment, not me. But after all that’d gone down with Dag, and me messin’ up so bad with you, and dealin’ with the rest of the McKay/West family shit, I volunteered. I needed time to get my head on straight. Kane says Colt’s had a rough go, mendin’ fences with his brothers.

Guess we all learned some things take time to heal.”

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Skylar let her fingers drift down Kade’s arm and she covered his hand with hers.