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"We're going to Kentucky." He pulled her outside and hustled her toward his car. "It's not far to the border. There's no waiting period to get married, and we're getting married tonight, Kristy Brown, no matter what you say. And I'm not leaving the ministry, either!"
They'd reached his car. He was beginning to sound as if he were running out of breath, and he stopped by the passenger door to fill his lungs. "We'll do it all over again for our families when we get back. We can even pretend it's the first time, but we're getting married tonight because the two of us need to make love in the worst way, and it's not going to happen unless we say some permanent vows before God first." He froze. "You do want to get married, don't yo
u?"
Happiness bubbled inside her. She smiled, then laughed. "Yes, I really do."
He squeezed his eyes shut. "Good. We'll work out the details on the way."
"What details?"
He pushed her into the car. "Where we're going to live. How many kids we're going to have. Who sleeps on what side of the bed. That sort of thing." He slammed the door, rushed around to the other side of the car, and climbed in. "I also should tell you the reason your car wouldn't start earlier was that I sneaked over to your condo and disconnected the battery cable so you'd have to ride with me. And I'm not sorry, so don't think you're going to get an apology!"
She didn't ask for one, and, within minutes, they were back on the road.
Bemused, Kristy spent the next ninety miles listening to the strangest lecture she'd ever heard. Ethan had always been a stickler regarding premarital counseling for the couples he wed, and now he tried to condense everything he knew into the time it took them to cross the Kentucky border and make the arrangements. He talked and talked and talked.
Kristy smiled and nodded.
They found a Pentecostal minister who agreed to marry them, but Ethan conducted the ceremony. He was the one who asked her to repeat the vows he recited, and he was the one who spoke his own vows in a deep, intense voice that came directly from his heart.
It was Kristy, however, who spotted the Holiday Inn not far from the outskirts of the Cumberland Falls Resort State Park.
They'd barely set their suitcases down before she tackled him, and he fell backward onto the king-sized mattress. She looked so eager, so excited, so thoroughly pleased with herself, that he laughed.
"Gotcha!" she said.
While he tried to catch his breath, she tore at the buttons on his shirt, then lunged for his belt buckle.
He gazed up into the beautiful, intent eyes of his virgin bride. "Let me know if I'm scaring you."
"Shut up and take off your pants."
That cracked them both up. But they didn't laugh for long; their mouths were too busy with hot, wet kisses. And since neither of them had the patience for slow disrobing, they were naked and groping each other within seconds.
"You're beautiful," she sighed as she stroked him. "Just the way I'd imagined."
He cupped the spill of her breasts and tried to find his voice. "You're even more than I imagined."
"Oh, Eth… That feels so good."
"You're telling me."
"I want you to do that a lot."
"Remind me if I forget."
She made a throaty moan as he ran his thumbs over her nipples.
"Do that again. Oh, yes…"
"Lie back, baby, and let me play with you."
She did as he asked. His caresses grew more intimate, and she sobbed in her passion. "Oh, Eth, I want to do everything." She moaned. "Yes. That. And I want… I want to say everything. Dirty words. I want to say dirty words. And dirty little phrases."
"Go ahead."
"I—I can't think of any."
