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“I should get back...” she said after some time, her voice cracking with emotion.
“I know,” I said, wishing the night to not pass. “Just think about this…when we go north, we won’t ever have to leave each other again.”
She smiled and kissed me goodbye. As always, I was reluctant to let her go. I traced her lips with the tips of my fingers, and then moved them down her smooth neck.
“Your heart is beating so fast.”
“It’s because of you,” she whispered.
We kissed again, our lips and tongues dancing slowly against each other. The warmth of her tongue made my lips tingle. Jeyne tilted her head back and I covered her mouth with mine. I was so hungry for her. She tasted so sweet. My desire continued to overcome me as I found myself kissing her with an intensity I could not control. I caressed her breasts through the thin material of her house dress and she moaned my name. I slowly lifted her dress, placing my hand between her soft thighs.
Soon, our clothing began to fall away, piece by piece while the waves of passion washed over our bodies. Where I kissed, she kissed. Where I touched, she touched until we became one, our bodies pulsating against each other. I couldn’t get enough. My mouth explored every inch of her body, starting from her neck down to her waist, her hips and between her thighs. I felt drunk as I ran my tongue in circles around her soft center. Burying my face there, I tasted her until she began to shake uncontrollably. I kissed my way back to her waist and breasts, unable to contain my need to be inside of her.
When I entered her, she let out a few sharp cries but begged me not to stop as she held me tight. After a while, her grip loosened, and she began moving with a passion I never knew existed. With her legs wrapped around me, I buried my hips as far as they could go while she called out my name. All I wanted was this moment, to be consumed by her and the exquisite sensations she gave me. I gave her all the love that was inside of me, love that she had helped create. We were oblivious to everything except our mutual desire and made love for what seemed like hours, knowing that, at last, we had discovered true love.
A couple of hours had passed and I knew that it was time to part. But before we did, we made love again, this time with raw intensity. We moved hard and fast, and more than once, brought each other to complete ecstasy. We were on the brink of bringing each other to another orgasm when the barn door opened. Jeyne and I froze, not daring to move nor make a sound.
We heard hay rustle under someone’s feet and a loud belch. At that moment, we knew it was Keegan, who, after what seemed like an eternity, finally made his way to the barn door to leave. And then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw movement. Jeyne saw it, too, and let out the beginning of a scream as a large rat ran across her leg.
“Who’s there?” Keegan shouted.
I looked at Jeyne and put a finger over my lips. She shut her eyes in fear and tried to get dressed as quickly and quietly as she could.
“I said, who’s there, gotdammit!” Keegan called out. “Come on down from there. I heard ya’!”
I started to call out when I heard a gun click. Before I could say more, the shot had already been fired.
Chapter Seventeen
The gunshot was loud and deafening, so much so that my ears begin to ring. Jeyne’s body was crouched against mine with her hands covering her ears. “Stay here,” I whispered before making my way down the ladder. I was livid. Keegan had gone too far.
“I didn’t mean to interrupt your fuckin’,” he said when he saw me, a nasty grin on his ugly, red face. “I thought you was one of the niggers trying to steal a horse.”
“You should leave,” I said as calmly as I could.
“Who’s up there with ya’?” he grinned. “It’s that nigra wench, ain it?”
“It’s none of your business,” I told him. “Now move.”
He threw his head back and let out a harsh laugh. “Why, I’ll be damned,” he said through discolored and crooked teeth. “And here I thought you was a smart one.”
The strong smell of alcohol was enough to warn me that this wasn’t the time to entertain or engage him. I needed to get Jeyne back to her cabin before questions were asked.
“I don’t have time for this.”
He raised his gun and aimed it towards the hayloft. “Tell me whose up there or I’ll shoot again.”
In one swift move, I tripped Keegan with my legs, a low, acrobatic kick I had been taught by one of the slaves. With wide eyes, Keegan stumbled backwards, trying hard to catch his fall. Te
iThehehe large gun fell out of his hand upon impact and he tried to retrieve it but I kicked him in the side. I watched him writhe and cry out in pain as I picked up the gun and calculated my next move. That’s when Jeb and Kip, a young house slave, came cautiously through the barn door. The gunshot had apparently stirred the house.
Keegan struggled to his feet. “You niggas get outta here! This ain’t got nothin’ to do with you.”
“What the hell is going on in here?” Jeb said to Keegan in an accusatory tone.
“Keegan shot at me,” I said. “I managed to stop him before he could do more damage.”
Jeb’s eyes blazed. “Massa White ain’t too happy about being woke up by no gun,” he said. “And he gon’ like it less when he hear dis.”
