Loving You: A Cowboy Romance (Texas Hill Country Romance Book 1) (28 page)

The next couple of weeks found Annie and Cord in a comfortable, blissful relationship. He slept at the pool house four nights a week and she would sleep at his the other three. On a rare occasion, they spent the night apart, due to work, usually.

They hung out with the gang some nights but most of the time they were content to being alone with each other. Both knew the clock was ticking down, but neither of them were ready to talk about it.

One night, while Annie and Cord were alone, sitting in their usual position at the pool, the gate opened and Dan walked in.

Annie froze and felt Cord tense up, too.

He protectively tightened his hold on her. “Go home, Dan,” he said in a dangerous tone.

“I will, Cord, but I want to talk to Annie.”

“Not happening. Get the fuck out of here.”

“Please, Cord,” Dan pleaded.

Cord moved Annie forward to get up out of the lounge. He was face to face with Dan.

Annie saw steam coming off of Cord and there went that tic in his jaw again.

Dan trained his eyes on Annie.

“Annie, please. I need to apologize to you. I lost control that night. I never meant for it to happen. I have so much respect for you, you have to know that.” He turned to Cord. “And you too, Cord.”

He talked fast because he thought Cord was going to swing at him and though he’d take the swing, he needed to get the apology out first.

“You hurt me, Dan. You violated me and you hurt me,” Annie said softly.

“I know and I’m so, so sorry. I don’t know what came over me.”

No one spoke. Dan had his head down staring at his feet. Cord had his eyes trained on him and Annie watched the both of them. Then Dan continued.

”I didn’t come here asking for your forgiveness in as much as I came here wanting to apologize for my actions toward you, Annie. We had a good thing. I liked hanging with you. We had a lot of laughs and I blew it.” Again more silence.

“I’m in an AA program now,” he said.

Annie looked up to him and smiled sadly. “That’s good, Dan.”

“Yeah.” More silence.

“Okay, I’m… uh… gonna get going now,” he said.

“Okay,” Annie said and she saw his shoulders sag in defeat.

“Cord,” he said, holding out his hand.

Cord’s jaw ticked away as he just stared at Dan’s face, ignoring his hand.

After a while Dan put his hand down, turned and walked away.

“Why does everyone think a handshake will fix everything?” Cord asked Annie as he came back to sit behind her.

“I don’t know, babe,” she simply said.

“Do you want to forgive him?” Cord asked.                            

“No…. yes…. I don’t know. I wouldn’t be able to trust him anymore. But, Cord, by all means, he’s a lifelong friend of yours-”

“Not interested in his friendship anymore.”

“Okay.”

After a while, Annie got up and reached for Cord’s hand. She had a surprise planned for him that night and she’d be damned if Dan was going to ruin it.

He gave her his hand and she began to drag him up. He looked quizzically at her.

“Come on, let’s go to bed,” she said as she smiled and Cord’s lips turned up at the corners, Dan all but forgotten.

Once in the bedroom of the pool house, Annie dropped Cord’s hand and slowly, seductively picked up the hem of her T-shirt and brought it over her head and flung it to the floor.

He already knew she was not wearing a bra because he copped a few feels earlier by the pool.

He took in a breath as he did every time he saw her beautiful, full breasts, and her nipples always tighten when he stared at them.

She looked down his body and saw his hard-on through his jeans as he slowly moved to her and put an arm around her waist and with the thumb and forefinger of his other hand he pinched and squeezed her nipple as he brought his mouth down to hers.

She wrapped her arms around him and felt that sharp familiar zing go straight to the middle of her legs and she moaned in his mouth.

It turned him on beyond belief to suck in a moan from her.

He dropped first one then the other hand to the zipper on her shorts. Deftly, he unzipped them. He brought two fingers inside the top of her panties and zeroed in on her clit and applied pressure. She shook with the sensation it caused throughout her body.

She needed to have her hands on his naked body. She put them under his shirt and felt up his smooth muscled chest of steel.

He moaned when she paused over one of his nipples and she felt the nub harden.

He had his fingers inside her, luxuriating in the wet silky feel of her.

She began to pant faster as she rocked her hips, taking those fingers deeper and listening to the sound of them working through her wetness.

Cord couldn’t get enough of that sound.

“So…fucking…hot,” he said as he looked down at his fingers in her panties, working her. He removed his fingers, to a protest from her lips, and not wanting to waste her taste, put them in his mouth and sucked. He looked in her pleading eyes and smiled.

“Don’t worry, I’ll take care of you. Don’t I always? ” he said.

Then he stepped back and placed his fingers on either side of her hips and pulled down her panties along with her shorts and helped her step out of them.

“Touch yourself,” he said as he started to undress himself. He watched her place a hand by her sex and rub in a slow sensual manner.

Her other hand came up to her left nipple and she pulled and plucked it firmly. She brought the hand that was between her legs to her mouth and sucked her fingers.

Cord took in a breath. He was so turned on, he needed to get inside her, but he willed himself to go slow.

Once his clothes were discarded, he scooped her up and placed her on the bed. He got between her legs and brought his body down. He spread her legs wide and saw her sex glisten with her wetness and took in another breath. He moved his mouth over her and sucked up that wetness. He licked and sucked her into a frenzy, until she clutched the bed sheets with her fists, and came trembling on his mouth.

She fucking turned him on like no other. He watched her eyes as he rose up on her and slid inside her. Never leaving her eyes he slid in deeper and deeper. He placed his arms under her legs, and rested the back of her thighs on his biceps to get in deeper, still.

“There’s no place I’d rather be then inside you,” he said breathlessly.

He pumped in and out slowly at first then he picked up the tempo as he changed up the thrusts and circled his hips.

“Turn me over,” she said.

He pulled out and flipped her over knowing doggie style was one of her favorite positions.

When she was on her knees he pushed her upper body down to the bed and slid back inside her, deeper now. Again he thrust and circled his hips into her.

She turned her head to see his face.

He was watching her ass and he spread her cheeks with his hands, viewing her puckered hole.

“Take my ass, Cord,” she said as she moaned.

Cord froze and looked at her, he slowly smiled.

‘Yeah?” he asked like a little kid.

“Yeah.”

“Oh fuck, yeah,” he said.

As he was about to pull out of her, she placed a hand on his arm.

“No, in the drawer,” she said and she stretched to open the drawer. She pulled out a bottle of lube and handed it to him.

He opened the bottle with a little too much gusto and spilled some of the oil on her ass and the sheets.

“Oops,” he said and she turned her head to him again.

“Might not be a good idea to say that right now.” She giggled and he laughed as he moved his fingers in the oil on her ass and slicked them up.

He placed even more oil on her tight pink hole. He felt her tense already and he began to pump in and out of her pussy with his cock. He placed a hand in front of her and massaged her clit to relax her. It worked.

“It may burn a little,” he warned her. “But, just stay with me. I’ll be gentle.”

“Okay.”

A moment later when she was worked up from his assault on her clit and in her pussy, he placed a finger on her hole.

“Relax,” he said.

She nodded.

He massaged her hole and the lube did what it was supposed to do. His finger slid in with just a little resistance.

Annie tensed and sucked in a breath.

“Keep going?” he asked.

“Yes,” she said.

He moved it in and out slowly and when he thought she could handle it, he slid another finger in. He scissored his fingers and she let out a gasp. She felt the burning he was talking about.

“Breathe, baby. You’re doing real good. This is so fucking hot.”

With his encouragement, she soldiered on.

He removed the hand at her clit and reached for the lube. He squirted a lot of it on her hole and threw it down. It was good that he concentrated on her comfort because he would have come just thinking about what she offered him.

He took his cock out of her pussy and moaned at the sight of it glistening with her juices on it. He slid it through the lube and then he slowly removed his fingers and Annie gasped. He stopped. Not sure of what to do.

“Don’t stop. That felt good,” she said and he smiled.

He fed his cock in her ass, slowly.

“Oh, that burns,” she said, sounding distressed.

Please don’t say stop, please don’t say stop, please don’t say sto-

“Don’t stop, Cord. I want this.”

Yes! Yes! Yes
!

“Almost there, baby, play with yourself,” he said.

She did and he fed even more of himself inside her. Once there, he paused.

“how ya doing?”

“Good.”

“Good, I’m gonna move now.”

“Okay.” And he pulled ever so slowly out, but not all the way, and ever so slowly in, all the way.

Annie let out a loud moan and he knew she’d be all right.

He moved in and out of her ass a little faster and Annie and he both let out a loud moan.

“Oh, fuck, yes,” she said.

He moved out faster still and when he moved back in, she moved her ass back to meet him.

They got into a steady rhythm and he became mesmerized by the sight of his cock sliding in and out of her ass.

He moved a hand to her breast and pawed it. He zeroed in on her nipple and pulled and tweaked. His other hand went to her clit and pushed her fingers out of the way and he took over as she began to buck wildly.

“That’s it, baby. You’re so close. Give it to me.” And he stepped up the pumping and assault on her until he felt her tense and she screamed out. He felt her whole body shudder.      

What made him lose it and come hard was not only her muscles squeezing him but the fact that when she screamed, she screamed his name. He involuntarily shuddered as his seed poured into her and he vaguely heard her panting.

“Holy, shit. Holy fucking shit,” he said, gasping for air. He finally stopped shuddering and stilled as he sought to catch his breath.

“Annie, talk to me. Are you good?” he asked.

She didn’t reply.

“Baby? You okay?”

“Oh, yes,” she said throatily, and he detected a hint of a smile.

“I’m going to pull out very slowly. It might burn. Brace yourself.”

“Okay,” she said and he ever so slowly pulled out and she did feel the burn but the orgasm a moment ago was well worth it.

He placed an arm around her waist, flipped her around, and he gently lowered them to the bed.

“Thank you,” he simply said and he took her lips with his in a deep soulful kiss.

Their eyes were closed. When he broke the kiss, he kept his mouth close to hers, opened his eyes and said. “I love you.”

Annie opened her eyes to see Cord staring into hers. “I love you too, Cord.”

“I know,” he said and they gazed into each other’s eyes a moment longer.

“Don’t leave me, Annie.”

“I won’t.”

But she mistook that meaning for the now while he was asking for the ever.

Their lips met again and then he pulled her up and said, “Come on, let’s go clean up.”

Two days later Annie and Calista were at the mall, shopping for something for Annie to wear to dinner that Friday night with Cord’s parents. They had been asking to do dinner but Cord kept putting it off, for no other reason than the fact that he was still angry with his mother for meddling. Alas, he gave in and they were going to his parent’s house for dinner.

“He told me he loves me,” Annie said to Calista as she was admiring a pretty taupe colored dress with spaghetti straps.

“Huh! Annie. Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Just did.” She looked at Calista making a corny face.

Calista laughed. “Did you…?”

“Yes.”

“Oh my God. Annie. I’m so happy for you.”

Annie smiled but it was a sad smile that Calista picked up because she knew Annie so well.

“What?”

“What.” She sighed. “I have a plane ticket to Paris in four weeks. That’s what.”

“Oh. Have you two discussed it?”

“No. What do you think of this one?” Annie asked as she held up a red sundress with lacing on the sides.

“Too slutty. Don’t you think you should talk about it?”

“Yes. What about this one?” Annie held up a white halter top dress.

“Screams I want to get married,” Calista said.

“It does not,” Annie said, chuckling.

“Does too, I like the first one. It’s sophisticated. Screams your name.”

“Okay. Plus I already have a killer pair of heels that would work with it.”

They walked to the cashier and Annie gave her a credit card.

“What do you want to do, Annie?”

“I don’t know.” She sighed. “I want to stay with him.”

“But?”

“But, well I’m not sure. I would feel comfortable knowing he asked me to stay. Not me telling him I’m going to stay.”

“Yeah. I know what you mean.”

****

“You tell Jennie you love her?” Cord asked Jake, who was in the corral with him grooming the horses.

They had just ridden back from Cord’s parent’s house. They helped Cal with fence mending on the back side of the property. Usually they would take the truck, but Jake felt like riding.

“Yeah.”

“Did she say she loves you back?”

“Yeah.”

“Dog... That’s good,” Cord said, chuckling.

“It is. What’s with this line of questioning, Cord?” Jake asked, brush paused in mid air before bringing it back down on Ghost. Cord was grooming Brutus.

“I love her,” he said.

“You love Jennie?” Jake asked, pretending to sound surprised.

Cord jerked his head Jake’s way. “No, asshole. I love Annie.” He grinned.

“I know. Did you tell her yet?”

“Yeah.”

“Well...”

“Well what?”

“Jesus, McCreedy. It’s like pulling teeth. Did she say it back?”

“Yes.”

“Geez, you don’t sound too happy about it though.”

“She’s leaving.”             

“Are you sure?” Jake asked as he paused brushing Ghost again, and Ghost stamped his hoof and swung his head around to Jake.                            

“I swear, if Ghost could talk, he’d say what the fuck, Jake, shut the fuck up and brush me,” Jake said, and he and Cord laughed and nodded their heads because they knew how much Ghost loved to be brushed.

Jake began brushing him again and Ghost turned his head forward again, apparently content that Jake went back to grooming him.

“I know she already has her plane ticket.”

“Oh. Are you going to ask her to stay?” Jake asked.

Cord looked around, but Jake knew he wasn’t really looking at anything at all. He was thinking.

“I asked her not to leave me.” He stopped talking.

“And?”

“And, I don’t think she got my meaning.”             

“Why do you say that?”

Cord blew out a breath.“I just don’t. Uh… she… um... she said okay and didn’t hesitate, so I, um, I’m thinking she might not have understood what I was asking, is all.”

“Oh. Well, clear it up for her.”

“Yeah.” And Cord led Brutus to the barn and Jake followed with Ghost.