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“I know.” I lean in and kiss her cheek, lingering a moment longer than necessary. She smells like the night blooming jasmine that crawls up the trellis outside my front door. “You smell like dessert,” I whisper before I pull away.
A rose-red blush blooms across her cheeks. She grabs for the mason jar that her mother mentioned and slides into a stool at the island before arranging the stems.
“When did you get here?”
I pull out the stool next to her and sit, making sure my thigh runs the length of hers. “I just came today.” It is no mistake that I emphasized that word and when her eyes race from my face to my crotch, I know she got it.
“I mean…” She pulls her lower lip between her teeth.
“I know what you mean.” I pull a few flowers from the pile and snap the stems in half so they will fit nicely in the jar. “I got back to Wyoming last week. I purchased some of your brother’s cattle and we herded the first batch to my ranch today.”
Her eyes light up. “So, you’re staying?”
We reach for the same flower and my hand folds over hers. “I’m all in, sweetheart.”
Just then, Mrs. Hawkins walks into the kitchen and Ellie jumps from her seat like she’s been burned. “Did you see the flowers Cooper brought?” She takes the long way around the island to set the flowers onto the table. It is the longest table I’ve ever seen. Long enough to lay Ellie on and feast on her for hours. My dick twitches in my pants and I know I have to keep those thoughts out of my head until we’re alone.
Showing all of me to Ellie is a different experience than showing all of me to the rest of the Hawkins family.
Her mom walks by me and ruffles my hair the way she always did when I was a boy. “He’s a good boy,” she says.
“Hardly a boy, Mom.” Ellie walks to the other side of the island and leans over, giving me an eyeful of her cleavage. So this is how she wants to play it. A little innocence. A lot of sexy.
“You know what I mean. I’ll always see you two as kids.” She sees the empty cup in front of me. “Pour the boy a glass of tea, Ellie. Where are your manners?”
She wraps her fingers around the glass, and I can’t take my eyes off the way she grips it. “I’m pretty sure Cooper can figure it out. He seems like the kind of man who knows how to get what he wants.” She dips the pitcher enough to create a waterfall of tea and pulls it upright before it overflows. “Am I right?” she asks as she slides the glass across the counter.
My fingers skim hers. “Absolutely.” I stare at her, hoping my eyes say everything my mouth cannot, due to her mom’s proximity.
“What about you, Ellie? Now that you’re back from college, what are your plans?” I pull the tea to my lips. Funny how she stares at my lips, the same way she used to stare at me when I stacked hay bales. The same way she stared at me in the showers today. Like she wants to eat me, and I’m totally on board.
“Oh, I thought I’d flirt with the idea of trying someone… I mean something new. Like getting a job.”
A deep laugh rumbles in my chest. “Accounting right?” I rise from the stool and walk over to her side of the island and lean my body into hers so we are once again touching. The sizzle that races through me can’t be chalked up to anything but pure animalistic desire.
“Take your tea outside. You’re crowding my kitchen.” Ellie’s mom, Amy, plops two loaves of bread on the counter and slathers it with garlic and butter.
I fill my glass and another for Ellie and lead her onto the big wooden deck that overlooks acres of prime grazing land.
Once we’re alone and out of sight, I sit the drinks on the table and push her toward the rail, pinning her between my arms. “You’re playing with fire.”
“Am I?” She walks her fingers up my shirt and flattens her palms on my chest.
I love the way my muscles tense and tingle with her touch. The way my heart pounds against my chest cavity. Years ago, she warmed my heart with the little doodles she wrote and left behind. “You have never been far from my thoughts.” I look behind me to make sure we can’t be seen before I nip at her bottom lip.
She runs her hands up my chest to wrap around my neck. “You’ve consumed mine.” She pulls me down and covers my mouth with hers. The kiss is hot and desperate and I can’t resist taking a taste of what she’s offering.
I lean back and look down at her beautiful face. “This only ends one way, Ellie.”
She looks up at me with eyes the color of new-bloomed clover. “How’s that Cooper? How will this end?”
With my lips whispering against her ear I say, “With my cock buried inside your tight pussy and you screaming my name.”
Her body shivers against mine. “What if I’m not a screamer?”
“Oh, you’ll scream.” I nip at the lobe of her ear. “I can hardly wait.”
She ducks under my arms and walks toward the tea on the table. “You’ll have to.” The screen door pops open. “Hi, Daddy.” She tiptoes up and places a kiss on her father’s cheek. “How was your day?”
