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  Just then I hear hooffalls behind us and I turn to see Jackie and Ryker riding up on their horses.

  “You having fun, Cricket?” Ryker asks, coming up beside me and reaching out his hand for mine.

  I take his and we ride side by side for a little way, just holding hands while Jackie tells us about the damage from the storm. It must not be too bad, because Ryker doesn’t say anything, just rides along beside me rubbing his thumb along my knuckles. I should probably be paying attention to what Jackie and Kathleen are saying, but I’m too busy thinking about how much I just want to curl up in Ryker’s arms and let him kiss me.

  We ride for a few hours, taking trails and going around the property before we head back to the barn. We stable the horses and talk to Johnny before we take the Gator back to the house and Ryker’s parents say they have to go.

  “We’ve got tickets to Spoleto tonight,” Jackie says.

  “I tried to get him to take me to something fun. But every now and then I’ve got an obligation to dress up and let him show me off.” She winks at me before coming closer and wrapping me up in a hug. “I know he’s gone about it a little different, but he has the best intentions.”

  “I know,” I say, looking over to Ryker. I don’t care how he went about it anymore. I’m just glad he was here for me. In fact, the more I think about it, he saved me that night. I could have gone home and wholloed about what Fritz had done to me. Likely question so many things about myself that I shouldn’t have. Instead he took me home with him, showed me how special I am to him and that I’m perfect being just me and nothing more.

  “I’m here if you need anything.” She gives my arm a squeeze before Jackie comes over and hugs me goodbye, too.

  We watch them go and close the door behind them. When the lock clicks, I turn around and face Ryker. Slowly he steps towards me until my back is pressed against the front door.

  “You’ve been giving me that look all day,” he says, placing his hands on either side of my head.

  “What look?” I ask, looking up at his big strong body. His bulk is shadowing everything behind him, so I can see only him.

  “Like you want me to take you to bed and give you a good fuck.” He licks his lips and I wonder if he’s thinking about how I taste.

  “Maybe I do,” I counter, leaning forward and pressing my chest to his. I want him so badly. Maybe his obsession is rubbing off on me.

  I don’t have time to think about what he’s going to say back to me, before I’m being wrapped in his arms and having the breath kissed out of me.

  I may have laid down this challenge, but I forgot who I was talking to. When it comes to Ryker, all I have to do is say the word.

  Chapter 19

  Ryker

  I grip her body tight as I walk towards the stairs. I don’t know if I can make it to the bedroom. The way she’s been touching me all day, reaching for my hand and leaning into my body has been driving me crazy. At one point when we were standing in the barn, she was the one to wrap her arm around my waist and cuddle close as the sun began to set and the air turned cool.

  “Do you wanna know why I took you?” I growl as I kiss her with all the passion inside me.

  I pull her against me as I begin to climb the stairs, but I have to stop and steady myself because I can’t wait to have her.

  “Why?” She gasps for air as my mouth moves to her neck, and I push my thigh between her legs.

  I lay her down at the top of the stairs and move on top of her. I rub my thigh against her pussy, and her hips grind on it. She’s looking for some kind of relief, and I don’t know how long I can last. I need her to get off so when I get inside her, I don’t have to hold back.

  “Because I fucking could,” I say, as I rip open her shirt. The sound of the buttons falling to the ground is a prelude to what I’m going to do to her. “Because I saw you long ago, and I saw you were with a man who didn’t deserve you. Because you weren’t being worshiped like a goddamn goddess.”

  “Ryker!” she cries out when I yank down her bra and suck a nipple into my mouth.

  I’m being rough with her, but I feel her fingers tighten in my hair, not from pain, but to pull me closer to her. I let out the nipple with a pop, and then move to the other.

  “You were mine that day, and I waited as long as I could. But you wouldn’t leave him.” I grip her hips and move them on my thigh as she dry humps my leg. “You never belonged to him, and seeing you touch him made me lose my mind.”

  I suck on her nipple again and her cries grow louder. Her thighs squeeze hard. Her back arches off the ground as she shouts, and I feel so possessive of her pleasure. I clench my jaw as I sit back and pick her up in my arms. But before I can get to the bedroom I push her against the wall and kiss her again. Her bare breasts push against my shirt, and I can feel how hard her nipples are. She wraps her legs around my waist and she still carries that sense of hungry urgency even though she just got off.

  “All my life I’ve worked hard and earned my claim to everything I have. Then one day I saw you. I’d never wanted anything more.” I grip her chin lightly and kiss her one more time before I pull back and look into her eyes. “He didn’t know the treasure that stood before him, and I wouldn’t abide it. You aren’t meant to be treated like a burden. You’re a reward, Cricket. My reward. I’ve built all of this to be worthy of you.”

  “Do you mean that?” She looks up at me through her lashes, and I can see that she wants so desperately to believe me.

  “Every word,” I say, and then pull her from the wall and carry her into our bedroom. I stand her up once we’re inside and kneel down in front of her. “Show me that pussy. I need the taste of it in my mouth when I fuck you.”

  She pushes the material off her hips, but I can’t wait and jerk them down to her thighs, along with her panties. I lean forward and grab her ass, pulling her close to my face. She’s still standing while I lick between her pussy lips, and she has to hold on to my shoulders to keep from falling.

  I can’t seem to focus. I want all of her all at once and there’s an urgency inside me like I’ve never felt before.

  I eat her pussy while I reach down and pull my cock out. Fuck, I’m not going to last long. I can taste how sweet she is and feel her hips rock against my mouth as she gets closer to the edge.

  “Ryker, I’m going to fall,” she cries as she climbs higher and higher.

  “Never,” I growl and suck on her clit.

  When she shouts my name, I have to close my eyes because the sight of her above me is too beautiful. It hurts to look at her lost in pleasure, because I want her so badly.

  I suck on her until I feel the last of her orgasm roll through her, and then I turn her around to face the bed. She gets on her knees and grips the mattress with her hands as I move behind her on the floor.

  “I should be gentle, baby. I know it’s your first time, but I can’t wait,” I say as I rub my cock on her ass and then into her sticky wetness. “I’ll try to go slow, but I can’t stop.”

  I push past her swollen lips and into her warm honey, feeling the unbelievable pressure from her virginity. I hold her body close to mine and kiss her neck as I slowly ease in.

  “Oh god, Blair. It’s so tight and perfect. You saved it for me, didn’t you?” When she nods and whispers, “yes,” I bury my face in her neck and move my hands around to her breasts, to play with her nipples.

  I’m blanketing her back with my front as I rock in and out until I feel her pussy pop. She gasps as I groan, knowing I’ve taken that little innocent pussy for my own. I keep one hand on her nipple as I move the other to her pussy. I pet her clit and rub the place where we’re connected, feeling how big and swollen my cock is inside her.

  “So fucking perfect,” I say when I feel her body begin to relax.

  I thrust all the way in and feel her sticky honey run down my shaft. I can tell she’s already impatient for another orgasm as her ass pushes back against me and meets my strokes with her own.

  “I’m close,” she says and there’s a whine to her voice.

  There’s been no talk of protection or me pulling out. And I hadn’t planned on either. But I know how I feel about Blair, and I know she deserves the option.

  “Cricket, do you want me to pull out?” I clench my jaw and sink into her one more time before slowly sliding out. “I’m close, baby, and if you go off with me still in here, I won’t be able to.” I slowly rock in and out, feeling her warmth wrap around me. “Fuck, I don’t know if I can pull out. It’s so good.”

  I grunt as I thrust back in and feel heaven greet me all the way to the root.

  She leans forward a little, letting me go deeper, and we both groan. “Please,” she whines as she moves her ass back on my cock, as if begging me to go deeper.

  “You want me to cum in you?” I ask, pushing in a little more and holding it there this time, letting her feel every inch of me inside her.

  “I don’t know,” she says and looks back over her shoulder at me. She moves her hips and I feel her pussy clench. “Maybe just this one time?” She bites her lip, and I swear to god I leak a little inside her at the sight.

  “Fuck,” I spit out as my cock throbs. “You tell me now or it’s too late.”

  Her pussy clenches again, and this time it doesn’t stop. She’s pushing back on my cock and cumming all over it. I look down to where we’re joined as I can see the evidence of her virginity, her climax and my cum mixed together, and I can’t hold back a second longer.

  I grab her ass and unload inside her as her pussy massages it out of me. It’s all I can do to keep from collapsing on top of her as every drop inside me is drained. I can feel it all the way to my toes while I pulse into her.

  Whispering her name as I wrap my body around hers, I register somewhere in the distance that she’s cried out, said my name, and asked for more over and over. I’m thankful she reached her climax when she did, because there was no way I could go a second more.

  It’s all a blur as my shaky legs lift us off the floor and onto the bed. We’re both still mostly dressed and I’m still inside her, but I have no plans to change either. Instead, I wrap my arms and legs around her, keeping her as close as possible while I whisper in her ear words of devotion and comfort. I tell her how incredibly beautiful she is, how special this was to me, and how I’m going to take care of her for the rest of our lives. I tell her everything that’s in my heart until she drifts off to sleep.

  Then I kiss the place below her ear and whisper, “I love you.”

  Chapter 20

  Blair

  Warmth surrounds me as my eyes slowly open. A sliver of morning sun peeks through the thick curtains, and I smile when I see Ryker is wrapped around me in a possessive hold. Even in his sleep he’s obsessed.

  Slowly I roll over, not wanting to wake him up but seeking a chance to look at him without him knowing. I rest my hand on his bare chest and fight a blush when a see a small hickey on his neck. I have to fight a laugh because I’m a little shocked that I did it. I never thought I was passionate when it came to anything sexual. To be honest, I didn’t really think about sex that much. Well, before Ryker. It’s probably why I’d never done much in that area beyond some heavy petting.

  Ryker brings out a side of me that I didn’t know was even there. Or maybe I did know it was there, but I’ve just spent years trying to hide it, trying to be something that I’m not. One thing I do know is that right now I’ve never been happier or more content in my life. It’s crazy because I don’t have one single worry when I should be having thousands. All I can think about is if we can do what we did last night all over again and never leave this bed.

  I shuffle my legs a little to see if I’m sore, but I only feel a small twinge. I wouldn’t call it pain, more of an ache at being filled. Ryker woke me up in the middle of the night and we made love once again. Then we soaked in his big tub, where he rubbed my entire body until I passed out again. It was perfect. He was perfect.

  I run my hand up his stomach and back to his chest, resting it over his heart. He looks so much younger when he sleeps. Leaning over, I move my hand and kiss his chest. I’ve never felt so close to someone before. It’s almost laughable that for a second I thought I could be with someone like Fritz. I don’t even know what to call that relationship anymore, because looking at what I have with Ryker, it’s nothing in comparison. I actually feel a little stupid for even dating him. I sold myself short on what a man should give me and what he should make me feel. Because I’ve got it now, and it’s life changing.

  “Morning.” My eyes fly up to Ryker’s. He’s got a sleepy smile that’s utterly adorable. He stretches his big body, and I watch as the sheets move out of the way to reveal exactly how excited he is this morning. My eyes are locked on his huge cock, and for a moment I’m wondering how I was able to have that inside me.

  I laugh in surprise when he rolls over quickly and pins me under him.

  “Missed you,” he says as he buries his face in my neck.

  “How could you miss me? You’ve been wrapped around me all night,” I tease as he pulls back and smiles down at me. I can’t help but think this is how I want to wake every morning.

  “I missed this.” His mouth comes down on mine in a slow, sweet kiss that has me wrapping my arms around his neck. When he pulls back he looks down at me with concern.

  “Are you sore?”

  Of course that’s his worry, and it makes me melt inside.

  “I’m good,” I admit, not wanting him to stop.

  I spread my legs and he nestles in between them. His cock brushes against my clit, and I gasp in pleasure.

  “Nice and slow,” he whispers as he kisses my neck.

  He teases me for so long, the need between my legs builds and builds. My hands slide down his back as he bears down on me even more. He rocks his hips back and forth, and then I feel the tip of his cock slide to my opening as he pushes inside. I lift my hips as he slowly enters me, so I can feel every hard inch of him. I moan his name, and he gives my neck a little bite, making my pussy clench, sending pleasure surging through my body.

  “Still so fucking tight,” he growls in my ear, moving in and out of me. “You wrap around my cock like you don’t ever want to let me go.”

  “Never.” The word falls from my lips instantly.

  Ryker stills for a moment before he thrusts in again, only harder this time. He’s impossibly more possessive, but with a sense of urgency. My small admission seems to have sparked something within him. But it’s the truth. I don’t ever want to let him go. I want to hold on to all the things he makes me feel and all the ways he cares about me. It’s like no one else ever has.

  I might have been stupid about some of the choices I’ve made before, but I know this one is right. I can feel it deep inside of me. There’s no more questioning, no more fighting it. It’s not like all the decisions I’ve made in my life before now. At the time I thought they were the right thing to do. This one I’m making because it’s truly what I want on every level.

  “Good, because I’ll never let you go,” he rasps in my ear.

  The possessive tone in his voice is all I need to send me over the edge. I cry out his name, and Ryker jerks above me as his warm release fills me. I moan when the heat of him sends my climax even higher.

  He holds on to me tightly as he rolls us over so that I’m sprawled across his body. My head is lying on his chest, and the sound of our heavy breathing fills the room.

  I turn my face into his chest and place a kiss there, realizing that once again we didn’t use protection. We should probably be careful, but I can’t find a reason to care. The idea should scare the crap out of me, but I’ve spent my life planning for everything. Deep down I know that no matter what happens, Ryker will take care of me and our baby. The thought of having his baby makes my heart flutter. I’ve always loved children, and it’s why I wanted to become a teacher when I first went to college. My breath hitches and hot tears burn my eyes.

  “Cricket?” Concern fills Ryker’s words. “Did I hurt you? Are you okay?” He tries to move us, but I sit up, placing my hands on his chest and pushing him down.

  “I’m fine,” I tell him, smiling even though my eyes are filled with tears.

  “You don’t look fine.” He sits up ignoring my attempts to keep him still. He cups my face and I see his eyes are filled with concern. “Tell me.”

  “I’m just happy is all. Really, really, happy,” I admit. Maybe even in love. But I keep that to myself. I’ve never said those words to another person before, and I’ve never had them said to me before.

  Ryker’s face softens as he kisses me. I wrap my arms around him, holding him close. This is the first person in my life I can truly count on to be there for me. For once I don’t have to worry about everything. I have someone at my side who truly cares about what I want and need.

  Something new takes hold inside me and his kidnapping doesn't seem crazy anymore. His obsession with me doesn’t seem crazy either. In fact, deep down when I think about it, I love it. He wants me so bad and needs me on a level that’s so insane he’ll do anything to have me. I’m that important to him—beyond measure and reason.

  Maybe I’m crazy, too. This could be unhealthy and codependent, and the old me would question it to death. I’d tell myself this isn’t right, but the old me didn’t get me anything that I truly wanted. I was living a life that was empty and I hated it. It might have been better than the life I had when I lived in the trailer with my mama, but it wasn’t much better. I was still all alone with no future.

  When he pulls back he places kisses down my neck. “I don’t like to see you cry. Even if they are happy tears,” he tells me, his voice filled with emotion. I reach up, tracing his soft lips with my fingers.

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