The Cowboy's Bride

The Cowboy’s
Bride

©Copyright, Danielle Lee Zwissler

2013

Danielle Lee Zwissler

Novella

Firefly & Wisp Books

Published By Smashwords

The Cowboy’s Bride is a work of fiction.
Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely
coincidental.

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Copyright © 2013 by Danielle Lee Zwissler

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The Cowboy’s
Bride

Chapter 1

T
essa opened her
eyes to a bright ray coming directly into the window through a tiny
peak of curtain. The curtains were an off white, which weren’t
recognizable.
Where am I?

“Mmm… you’re finally awake. I’ve been
waiting,” came a masculine voice. Chills went down Tessa’s arms as
she winced, wondering who the stranger was behind her. Hands moved
down her sides then wrapped around her, pulling her into an embrace
and directly on to an impressive erection.

Tessa moaned without realizing it and leaned
her neck back and allowed her head to fall onto the man’s chest.
“Good morning,” she said, hoping that she would regain her memory
from the night before.

“I had hoped you’d remembered,” the man
said. “We were both a little, well…we weren’t exactly in the best
shape last night.”
Tessa groaned inwardly. How could she have done something like
this? She had never even been with a man before, and go figure, her
first time and she couldn’t even remember. At least the pressure
was off. Tessa closed her eyes and let herself enjoy the feel of
the man’s body pressing against her backside. His hands were large
and were moving slowly over her body and up to her breasts, gently
squeezing. His breath on her neck was warm and he smelled great—all
man and outdoors. Sexy.

A second later, Tessa turned and, for the
first time that morning, saw the object of her affection and nearly
fainted. Jake Anders her parent’s next door neighbor and the man
that she had a crush on for nearly her entire life. Tessa’s eyes
widened and she gasped.

Jake looked deep into her eyes and knew
right then that she didn’t remember a thing. “Oh my God, Tessa. You
don’t remember, do you?”

Tessa couldn’t think of what to do next;
tears ran down her cheeks. She was relieved, but at the same time
embarrassed.

“How often do you do this sort of thing?”
Jake asked.

Heat crept up her body and her face flushed.
“I don’t!”

“You mean to tell me you didn’t know who I
was and you let me touch you like that?” Jake asked disgusted.

“Well, I—” Tessa bit her lip. “I just, well
I figured, I…”

Jake closed his eyes, nearly throwing up,
courtesy of his leftover hangover. “I’ll be…”

Jake ran into the bathroom and firmly shut
the door. Tessa could hear the bile coming up and Jake’s groans.
Great. This was truly a romantic morning. Nothing like a first time
and then the man that you were in love with practically your entire
life in the bathroom throwing up. Tessa went to stand and grabbed
the sheet to wrap around herself. Locating her clothes, she pulled
on her panties first as the door opened. She stood there
bare-breasted with only her small, lacy-red panties on.

Jake gasped. Tessa looked up and her eyes
widened.

“Damn’t, Tessa, you are so beautiful,” Jake
whispered in awe.

Tessa didn’t even make to cover herself, she
waited to see what he would do and was pleased with the outcome.
Jake moved slowly, steadily and she was soon in his arms.

Tessa’s mouth opened as her tongue gently
traced Jake’s, probing with her tongue. Jake’s tongue tangled with
hers and she moaned. The taste of mint, reminded her that she
hadn’t yet brushed her teeth.

Her breasts felt tight against his chest and
she could feel the hardened tips, as they were overly sensitive.
She moaned, and Jake moved his mouth away from hers and down to her
breasts. He pulled one sensitive tip into his mouth as he rolled
the other with his thumb and forefinger. Tessa’s hands went to his
head and pulled him in to her. His mouth was hot and very, very
talented.

Tessa moaned and could feel the wetness
gather between her legs. Jake’s hands moved down as did his mouth.
He was now on his knees in front of her, and he looked up into her
eyes, asking permission. Tessa nodded and Jake’s mouth quirked up
to the right. He stood up slowly, then hooked one arm around her
and the other underneath her legs.

“I want you so bad, Tessa… so bad. I
ache.”

“I ache, too,” Tessa whispered. She was
grateful that last night happened without her knowledge, now she
felt brave, ready for anything. She felt the mattress underneath
her and the weight of Jake on top. It was hard to believe that Jake
was the one. He was the one she had wanted all these years and he
was the one she gave her virginity to. She was glad, proud that she
waited, and so happy that it was Jake that took it.

She pulled Jake down and gave him one long,
luxurious kiss. She wanted to tell him that she loved him, but for
some reason the thought stopped on her tongue. Jake’s hands were
suddenly everywhere and she couldn’t get enough of him. She moved
her hands down to his boxers and pushed them down with her hands
and then her foot. She could feel his hardness between her legs,
the wetness between her own and the heat coiling within. She wanted
to feel him everywhere. She put her hands on him and gently
stroked, up and then down, feeling the wetness on the tip. She
licked her lips, needing him and wanting to taste every drop of him
on her tongue. She went to move down, but he captured her quickly
by the wrists and put them above her head, securing her with his
right hand as he rubbed himself all over her.

He could feel her hardened nipples against
his chest, her wetness against his erection and then he moved her
thighs apart gently with his knee.

“I’m sorry, Tessa,” Jake breathed, “I can’t
wait. I need you now. This first time will go fast, but I promise
to take a lot longer the next.”

Tessa barely heard what he was saying before
he pushed his way through. The pain was a shock to her system and
then turned into an intense hunger. Her eyes widened. She couldn’t
believe that it would hurt like that a second time, and then
realized that it wasn’t the second time when she saw the reaction
on Jake’s face. Jake’s eyes darkened and she could feel him pulling
away. She couldn’t bear that, so she put her arms around his neck
and pulled him down into a kiss. “I’m so glad it was you, Jake.
Let’s finish what you’ve started.” Her voice was low and sultry and
full of need. Jake closed his eyes as her tongue probed his mouth.
His arms went around her and then he began a slower motion. Her
heat wrapped around him like a glove… a tight, wet glove. It was
Heaven. Jake could feel every tremble of her body, hear every
little sound that she made and her sweet smell filled his nostrils
with lust.

“Tessa, you feel so good. So…good,” Jake
said, searching her eyes for pain, hoping she felt as good as he
did.

“Mmm, Jake. I never knew…this feels,” she
moaned. “This…”

Jake could tell that she was close. He moved
in more defined moves, his hands finding her breasts, lovingly
teasing them into tight buds. He moved his mouth down and licked
slowly, feeling her body tighten around him.

“Oh, Jake,” she said, trembling.

“Let go, Tessa. I want you to cum for
me.”
Jake looked down at her. “Open your eyes, Tessa.”

Tessa trembled, embarrassed by his request,
but could not deny him for the world. She never could. She opened
them up, round dark shades of blue blinked back at him. Jake’s hand
moved down and into the area between her legs. Tessa gasped, eyes
rolling back.

“Look at me,” Jake said as he felt tiny
quakes from her body and then he heard her moan. Her very sexy
moan. “That’s it, Tessa.”

Jake felt his own climax coming and gave
over to it with hard thrusts into her core. One right after the
other, until he finally felt his seed spilling in to Tessa.

Jake kissed Tessa’s forehead then rolled off
and lay right next to her. “God, Tessa, that was…”

“It was amazing,” Tessa finished.

“Yes,” Jake said, breathing deeply. “About
what happened…”

Tessa interrupted, “Jake, I thought… Well, I
thought when we woke up together, this morning, that we…”

“Had already done it?” Jake asked.

“Yes,” Tessa whispered.

Jake closed his eyes to the pain. She had
only been with him because she thought she had already done it.
Jake stood up, “Well that’s just great, Tess.”

At Jake’s alarmed tone, Tessa sat up. “What?
What did I say?”

“Oh, just that it was a big mistake, that’s
all. You thought I would take advantage of you, being drunk last
night! What the hell, Tessa?”

“What was I suppose to think, Jake? I was
naked in bed with you, you had your hands all over me… I could feel
your… your…” Tessa’s face reddened. The blush took over her entire
body. Jake couldn’t help but look.

“How long have we known each other,
Tessa?”

“Exactly. We’ve known each other our entire
lives, how would I have known that this would happen?”

Jake looked down at his feet. His nakedness
stood out in the room. He couldn’t find his boxers. The bed was all
tangled up and Tessa stood two feet away, gloriously naked. Jake
thought about the sex they just had and then stiffened. “Tell me
you are on birth control.”

Tessa swallowed as she looked into Jake’s
eyes. “No, why would I be? I’ve never… you… Oh, my God!”

Jake cradled his head in his hands then ran
back into the bathroom. Tessa could hear the bile once again.

Chapter 2

“
W
hat do you think
you’re doing?” Tessa asked. She could barely contain her anger.
Jake was standing on the other side of her door with a lopsided
grin. It pissed her off to no end, knowing that she slept with the
idiot and then he just left, not acknowledging her for an entire
week.

“I’m waiting for you to invite me in,” he
said smoothly.

“You’ll be waiting for a long time then.”
Tessa went to shut the door, but it caught at the last minute. One
booted foot blocked the way. “Jake, I’m really not in the
mood.”

“That’s too bad, isn’t it? Because I
am.”

“Very funny,” Tessa said. Her face felt like
it was on fire. “You want a little of round two then? Well, I hate
to tell you, you can only de-flower a virgin once, make fun of her
and then leave her.”