Rough Riders Bundle 1(books 1, 2, 3) (79 page)

AJ’s whole body
shook. With need. With surprise. With fear.

The sun was setting, softening the light filtering through the blinds to a hazy purply pink. The king-sized, four-poster bed was the centerpiece in Cord’s masculine bedroom—the only room he’d redecorated after his wife had left. A heavy mahogany nightstand with a stained-glass lamp on top was shoved in one corner, a matching bureau took up the largest wall and an antique wooden rocking chair was in front of the bay window.

She leaned against the doorjamb to the master bath and watched Cord toeing off his Tony Lamas. He folded the comforter to the end of the bed, exposing plain white cotton sheets.

Cord faced her as he unbuttoned his crisply ironed navy blue shirt.

“Should I be doing that?” she asked.

“Next time. If you put your hands on me anywhere right now, I guarantee I’ll be on you and in you before you can blink.”

“Sounds good to me.”

He growled and tossed his shirt on the dresser.

AJ stared at his chest. Man. Talk about perfect. She wanted to sink her teeth into his hard pecs. Lick his bulging biceps. Suck the flat disks and see how fast his nipples hardened. Trace the ridged lines of his ripped abdomen with her tongue. Follow that intriguing trail of dark hair from his belly button down…way down to see exactly where the hair ended. She bit her lip as he lowered the zipper on his jeans.

“AJ, I’m warning you.”

“What?”

“Stop lookin’ at me like you wanna eat me alive.”

“If you didn’t want me to look, Cord, you shouldn’t look so damn good.”

That slow, sexy grin appeared. “Like what you see?”

“I’ve always liked it.”
Even when I was a little girl and I didn’t know
why
I liked it so much.

His jeans hit the floor and he was buck-ass naked.

Her gaze zeroed in on his groin and her heart rate quadrupled. “Umm. Wow. Did it grow? Because it looks bigger.”

“Kissin’ your red-hot love flower made this stem grow big and hard just for you, baby doll.”

AJ managed to meet his eyes. “Love flower?”

His cheeks were slightly red. “Thought maybe you wanted some kinda sweet-talkin’ love words first.”

“Is that the next step? Because I thought we’d just get naked and you’d put your stem—”

Cord’s mouth cut off additional comment. He fiddled with her rhinestone belt and her skirt thudded on the floor. He released her mouth long enough to say, “Lift,” and yanked her T-shirt over her head.
Snap
. Her bra opened and he slid it off her arms. He walked her to the bed until the backs of her knees hit the mattress.

His hands kneaded her breasts and then his hot mouth enclosed her nipple.

AJ let out a squeak.

“I wanna fuck you fast and get this first time out of the way so I can fuck you slow next time. Then fast the time after that. Then slow. I want to fuck you so many times in so many ways that you won’t be able to sit on a horse for a goddamn week, AJ.”

Liquid heat pooled between her thighs, her pulse pounded and every part of her that wasn’t touching him ached to be touching him. “Cord—”

“Get on the bed. In the middle.”

She scooted back on her elbows until her neck brushed the pillows. The cotton sheets were cool beneath her feverish skin.

Cord stood at the foot of the bed, stroking himself, eyeing her like she was the lottery, a gourmet meal, a prize-winning Thoroughbred—and he held a winning ticket to all three.

As he stared at her, she wanted to tell him to hurry up; she wanted to tell him she was scared and to go slow. When he crawled across the mattress, stalking her with his big body and smoldering eyes, she knew she’d made the right decision waiting for this man to introduce her to the carnal delights of sex.

He put his callused hands on the inside of her thighs and pushed them open.

The tips of her nipples tightened when Cord lowered his head and licked a path from her clit up to her mouth. Even his kiss tasted darker. As he nibbled on her lips, she heard a
click
and then his fingers were pushing a cold, sticky substance inside her.

She gasped softly.

“Just lubrication. You’re wet, but I don’t wanna hurt you. Ready?”

She nodded, hoping he attributed her racing heart and shaking limbs to excitement and not fear.

Cord levered himself over her and reached between them. He circled the blunt tip around her opening and then started to push his cock in.

And in.

And in.

And it still wasn’t in. And what was in—hurt.

His hot breath teased her ear. “AJ, don’t tense up.”

“I’m not. I told you it wouldn’t fit.”

Cord half-laughed/half-groaned. His lips feathered across her jaw to her mouth. He began to kiss her in that bone-melting way of his.

AJ slid her hands up his strong arms and into his hair. She concentrated on the feel of his silky tongue in her mouth. The glide of his rougher skin on hers. The delicious way he smelled. The cool sheets on her back. The heat of his muscled body on her front. The sounds of their labored breathing. The muted lighting and the soft mattress. The fierce need but unbelievable gentleness pouring from him.

He was rocking into her in short bursts when all of a sudden the kiss intensified. His hands pushed her hips down as his pelvis thrust up.

She gasped. “Oh God. That hurts.”

“Ssh. I’m in all the way. Just relax around me. It’ll get better.”

Then Cord bent his head and suckled her nipples. And kept sucking until some primitive instinct told her to move under him. He kissed her neck, returned to her nipples, nuzzling her cleavage, breathing over the damp spots he’d created on her skin, kissing wherever he could reach, muttering nonsensical words against her skin. Dragging his rough fingertips up and down her shaking thighs.

He murmured, “Baby doll, I’ve gotta move. Wrap your legs around my waist. Trust me.”

AJ was feeling less panicked but nowhere near comfortable. The second she lifted up, all the hot hardness slipped out and plunged back in.

That wasn’t bad. That felt kinda…good. “Do it again.”

Cord pumped his hips, slowly sliding in and out. “Okay?”

“Yeah. Is it okay for you?”

“Hot.” He pulled out. “Wet.” He pushed in. “Tight.” He eased out. “Not just okay. Perfect.” He thrust in a little harder. “See? You are a perfect fit for me.”

AJ closed her eyes, feeling the thick male part filling her, sending tingles from her core throughout her whole body. “I like that.”

He increased the pace. The strokes were shorter. Deeper. His breaths near her temple were unsteady and fast.

“AJ. Look at me.”

She opened her eyes. Sweat trickled down Cord’s face. His jaw was tight. She traced his profile, amazed by him, by this intimacy. “What?”

“This.” Cord squeezed his hands on her butt, buried his face in her throat and drove his cock inside her to the hilt.

As he groaned, her inner tissues were so swollen and sensitized that she felt the tip of his sex twitching as he bathed her insides with his hot seed.

She couldn’t think of a more ideal way to lose her virginity.

‡

C
ord raised his
head and gazed at AJ’s face. Her long black lashes fanned her flushed cheek. Her well-kissed lips were curved into a smirk.

He tickled that sassy little mole with his beard.

She sighed. “A virgin no more.”

“You sore?”

“A little.”

“Then I’m not pulling out because I can’t wait to have you again.”

AJ blushed.

“Hang on.” Cord rolled until his back was flat on the mattress and she was on top. “Better. Now I don’t hafta worry I’m squashing you.”

“I don’t mind.” She laid her head on his chest and sighed again.

Such a heartfelt sigh. He knew the feeling as he let his palms drift up and down her naked back from her ass to her shoulders.

“What was your first time like?” she asked.

“Fast. Happened in the back of a car out past the rodeo grounds when I was fifteen.”

AJ looked up at him. “I’m glad I waited. Thank you. This was…spectacular.”

“Except for the fact you didn’t come.”

“I did before when we were in the living room.”

“That don’t count.”

“Why not?”

“A good lover will always see to your needs first. Besides, I wanna feel you come around my cock. I wanna watch your face when you feel the difference.”

“There’s a difference in orgasms?”

Right after she said that, his dick twitched to life.

Her eyes widened. “Whoa. I can feel that. I thought it’d take like fifteen minutes for you to get hard again.”

He lifted a brow. “Why? Because I’m old?”

“No. That’s what it said in
Cosmo
. Besides, you’re not old, stop saying that. God, you’re twice as sexy and hot as any man…” Embarrassed, she averted her gaze.

“What? I was likin’ the way the conversation about me was goin’, baby doll,” he teased.

“I can’t believe I’m really here with you, Cord McKay. I’ve had a crush on you for so long.”

Cord grinned. “Really?”

“Yeah. But you’ve never noticed me.”

“Not entirely true.” He twisted a section of her baby fine hair around his index finger. “What would you have done if I’d chased after you down at Carter’s wedding last year and taken you up on your offer after kissin’ me so sweetly?”

“Probably would’ve lost my virginity in a truck with you at the Bar 9.”

“Jesus.”

“And as long as we’re confessing things…a couple of times when I babysat Ky? After I put him down for his nap, I came in here and laid on your bed. Wondering what it’d be like to be in this bed naked with you.”

“Don’t tell me stuff like that.” He paused and studied her face. “Did you touch yourself when you were laying on my bed?”

“Geez, Cord,
no
. I was babysitting. I imagined you touching me though. I gotta admit my imagination didn’t do it justice.”

He captured her face in his hands. “No need to make your imagination work when I’m here. I’ll admit I’ve been fantasizing what you’d look like on top of me. Naked.” He nudged her upright and murmured, “So, ride me, cowgirl.”

Panic flashed in her eyes. “But I don’t know how—”

“Your body will guide you better than I can. Bring your knees by my hips.”

She maneuvered herself around.

“That’s it.” Cord placed her hands on his shoulders. “Fast or slow as you wanna go. You’re in total control.”

“But what if I do it wrong?”

“No such thing as wrong. Do whatever you want. Do what feels good. I ain’t gonna complain or say no.”

AJ’s eyes met his. “What will you be doing?”

“Watching you.”

She was so tentative, hardly moving, unsure where to put her hands. Not trusting her body to find a natural rhythm. Again, her innocence was more arousing than he’d expected. His thumbs rasped her nipples. He was dying to suck them until she screamed, but he worried his attention would be a bigger distraction to her sense of imbalance.

When AJ leaned over to kiss him, her clit rubbed the top of his groin. She blinked with surprise. “Oh. That feels good.”

“Then keep doin’ it.”

“But I wanna touch you. I’ve been dying to get my hands all over you for so long. Too long.”

AJ ground her pelvis into his, keeping his cock deep inside as she rocked over her clit. Her hot tongue made circles around his nipples. She licked and sucked his neck and collarbone until he wanted to explode. His thighs went rigid when she bounced faster.

He clenched his ass cheeks to keep from thrusting into her, letting AJ learn how to get what her body needed.

She threw her head back, closed her eyes and gasped with surprise as she came without warning.

Cord gritted his teeth as he felt the spasms tightening around his cock.
Hold off hold off
. The second her eyes blinked open after the last orgasmic ripple, he flipped her on her back.

“Now I’m gonna ride you.” He pinned her arms above by the headboard and drove into her.

Stroke after stroke they were spiraling higher, both covered in sweat. Both breathing hard. Both lost in the moment.

He put his lips below her ear. “So fuckin’ wet. So fuckin’ tight. Feel how hot and hard you make me burn.”

“Cord—”

“Come with me this time.” He changed the angle of his hips and hammered into her.

She shrieked and he shot his load. His vision blurred, his throat closed. Her greedy sex milked every drop from his cock until he was completely inert.

Still, he sought AJ’s mouth. She pressed her chest to his, breaking free of his handhold to run her hands all over his body.

Cord rested his sweaty forehead to hers. “Whoa.”

“Yeah. I think you blew out all the pleasure receptors in my brain.” He shifted his weight to pull out of her and she hissed.

“I got a little carried away. You’re probably sore.”

“I like that you got carried away.”

“I’m glad you don’t mind. I can be rough.”

“I’m not nearly as delicate as you think I am.” AJ looked at the alarm clock on the nightstand. “Is that really the time?”

“Yeah. Why?”