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But he didn’t need an answer. His hardness entered her softness and she purred wantonly. It was the second time he’d taken her on the porch this way. As before, his strokes began slowly, gently, letting them savor the rhythm like the opening strains of a lulling sonata, until love-fed lust snared them both. Gentle burned into carnal. Her cries mingled with his growls, his hands tightened on her hips and they rose and fell with the thundering cadence of the age-old dance. She broke first, he exploded after. Sated, they slid boneless to the porch floor and he held her against his chest in the darkness while they tried to catch their breath.
Chapter Seventeen
The next morning after breakfast, Regan walked out to the barn with her husband who was on his way to his office. “I’m not sure what to cook for dinner. Is there anything special you’d like?”
He mounted his horse. “Besides you?”
She laughed. “Didn’t you get enough last night?”
“No and neither did you.”
He was right of course. He could make love to her until the cows came home next May and she’d still want more. “We really need to use a bed.”
“Still on my list. Your plans for the day?”
“Anna and I may ride over to the schoolhouse to see what supplies might be needed.” Last night, after they recovered from their lovemaking, she told him about the council meeting.
“You sure you want to teach?”
“No, but I gave my word. Besides, how difficult can it be?”
“Remember you said that when Wallace Jr. has you pulling out your hair. Give me a kiss so I can get going.”
She raised herself to her toes. He leaned down. Their lips met somewhere in the middle, and he rode away.
An hour later, she and Anna were paid a visit by Livy, her mother, Julia, and grandmother, Lucretia. Regan and Julia had never met, so Lucretia did the introductions.
“Pleased to meet you,” Regan said.
“I’m pleased as well.” Julia had her mother’s dark hair, plump figure, and her father, Matt’s, gray eyes. “My sister, Daisy, just had a baby, and my husband, Paul, and I have been in Fort Collins helping her and my brother-in-law. They have three other children. I have my own coming in a few months,” she added, smoothing a hand over her blossoming belly.
“Anna said you were carrying. Congratulations.”
Lucretia crowed proudly, “That’ll make grandchild number twelve.”
Julia shot her mother a grin. “Since there’s no school today, Livy and I are wondering if Anna might like to come and spend a few days with us?”
Seeing Anna’s wide-eyed joy, Regan asked, “Would you like that?”
“Yes!”
Regan laughed. “Julia, can you and Lucretia wait a few minutes while we pack her a bag?”
“Sure can,” Julia replied.
A short while later, Regan waved good-bye as Lucretia and Julia drove off with Livy and Anna giggling away in the wagon’s bed.
With Anna gone, Regan decided to pay a visit to the school anyway and maybe swing by Spring’s before riding home. She then wondered if she’d need a key to get inside the building. Wishing she’d thought to ask Colt or Lucretia about it, she decided it didn’t matter. If the door was locked, she’d return the next day. Either way she and Star would enjoy the ride.
As she and Star set out, Regan kept one eye out for the ambusher, but didn’t let it keep her from enjoying the endless blue sky and wild open country that was now her home. She saw hawks and elk, cattle grazing in the distance, meadows carpeted by wildflowers, and streams running clear and pure. She loved Wyoming, and as soon as she was able, planned to write her family and invite them out for a visit, so they could fall in love with the Territory’s beauty, too.
Arriving at the schoolhouse, she found the front and back doors locked. Sighing, she remounted and turned Star towards Spring’s place. Halfway there, she spotted a child sitting in the meadow. As she slowed her horse, she realized it was Felicity Enright. Glancing around for Colleen but not seeing her, Regan rode over to find out if something was wrong. “Felicity? Are you okay?”
She nodded.
“Is your mama with you?”
She shook her head.
