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“Then let’s figure out a way to make it work.” I filled her to the hilt, my heart violently pounding. I needed to calm down and stop her from breaking up with me.

“It’s not possible and you know it.”

Not what I wanted to hear. “I can’t just pack my truck and move. I have responsibilities. My parents. The ranch. You know this. It’s easier for you to find a job here than for me to move hundreds of cattle to a new location.”

Her mouth fell open.

I knew exactly what I’d done wrong. “Your job is important. I didn’t mean to make light of it. I’m sorry.”

“We have battled this for years. Why am I the only one who sees this isn’t a healthy relationship? It’s time Cade. You need to let me go, and you can’t call or visit me.” The words rolled off her tongue quickly, not giving me a chance to change her mind.

“And I don’t have a choice.” I clenched my teeth hard, not caring if I broke one or all of them.

“Please listen to me.”

“I am, and I don’t like what I’m hearing. Especially with my dick inside your pussy. Who has conversations like this during sex?”

She sighed. “It’s the only way I can pin you down to talk about this.”

“Jesus Christ. You must really want to break up with me.”

“As much as I love you and want you…” She inhaled a ragged breath. “I also want a normal life and my boyfriend to live near me. I don’t want long weekends or holidays where we screw like rabbits because the clock is ticking.” The floodgates blew open. If she cried any harder, she might hyperventilate. It had happened before. Scared the crap out of me, too.

“You make us sound like friends with benefits, which is bullshit, Shelby. Utter bullshit.”

“I… I’m sorry,” she cried. “I didn’t mean it. My mouth ran away with me. I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean it.” She wrapped her arms around me. “But I can’t do this anymore. I can’t, Cade. I want you to let me go.”

The gut-wrenching pain I felt hearing her request nearly made me cry like a baby. I would do anything to be anywhere but here.

“Please promise that you’ll let me go,” she begged.

“I promise.” I took a deep breath, accepting that I’d lost the battle, then crushed my lips against hers.

I devoured her mouth, then moved down her neck to her full breasts. If this was the last time we’d be together, I’d make it unforgettable.

In return, Shelby responded with fiery passion.

Determined to orgasm together, I timed my pace as I pumped into her, making it last as long as possible. I pulled out and glided back in slowly. In and out, in and out.

I memorized the way my dick felt in her pussy, the sounds she made as the tip of my cock hit her sweet spot. So hot and raw. She pulsed around me as her nails bit into my shoulders. No woman would ever own me the way Shelby had. I would never love another again…

“Cade!” she cried out in ecstasy. “I’m close.”

As if I didn’t know she was. I lowered my forehead to hers and enjoyed the last seconds of our connection.

Her lips parted, and she arched her back.

My spine tingled, and my balls raised.

Our bodies clenched in unison, then we came apart.

I focused on the feel of her body and burned her smell into my memory.

When I thought about her finding someone else and giving her body to them, I wanted to die. Shelby Smithfield was meant to be mine for always.

Maybe she’d stay single and come to her senses after she’d had some time away from me. If I believed that, I was a bigger fool than I ever knew. Of course she’d find someone; Shelby was every man’s dream: gorgeous, intelligent, passionate, caring, trusting. She would make any man happy, just as she had me.

I wanted her to have everything she’d worked for and dreamed of; a perfect California life. Her happiness mattered most, even if it wasn’t with me. I’d let her go as I promised, and then I’d be a soulless, worthless man for the rest of my life.

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