Billionaire Romance: Out of The Cold (Book One) (5 page)

She collapsed back to the
mattress, writhing and twisted, unfulfilled and yet wild with
pleasure and happiness. He wanted her. He was covering her with
kisses, and up he came now from under the comforter, sitting up to
tear off his shirt and kick the thermal pants off, eyes wild with
lust.

He crouched over her, and
she whimpered and parted her legs for him, her voice rising in an
almost-plea as she felt his erection slide against her thighs and
then push insistently against her sex. Her hips lifted...and he
slid into her, a long groan of relief and hunger turning into a
harsh shout as he sank in completely.

He tried to go slowly, but
his body wouldn’t cooperate any more. He hunched and shoved against
her, his hips rolling faster and faster, using a little too much of
his strength, pressing her into the mattress and making her sob for
air. His breath was all shuddering gasps, as if he was struggling
to keep quiet and in control.

She wanted it to last
forever. But her body was already tightening around him, and she
raked her fingers over his back and raised her hips to meet him
again and again as he groaned and panted and pounded into
her.

She heard her own voice
rising in desperate cries, counterpointed by his muffled
groans--and then her nerve endings caught up and her climax roared
over her in a series of waves. She wailed, nails digging into the
skin of his back as he slammed his hips against her. And then he
arched his back and shuddered against her, body pushed against hers
and his member spasming inside of her. He cried out her name...and
then caught himself on his arms before he could collapse over
her.

She came back to herself
to see him staring down at her in the moonlight, his eyes bright
and his hair askew. She reached up to smooth his hair and caressed
his face softly. He smiled lazily and leaned down to kiss her.
“That was almost worth getting stranded up here....”

“Yes,” she murmured
against his lips. “Yes it was.”

T
hey made love twice more before dawn flooded the windows and
Anna’s growling stomach demanded she seek out the last scraps of
food for them. Two slices of toast apiece with a few bits of roast
beef on them. They sat next to each other as they ate, distracting
each other from the shrinking pile of wood and the lack of snowplow
noises with little gestures of tenderness. They might be in
trouble, but they had found an antidote for their survival terror
in the sweetness of afterglow.

After breakfast, they went
out briefly to survey the mess the storm left in the harsh light of
day. The quarter mile to the road was a smooth mass of snow, and
the road itself was no better. It would be a half mile of breaking
trail in the icy cold, and Anna fretted while Henry steeled himself
for it. Hopefully their neighbors would actually be home, instead
of somewhere safer and saner.

Henry waited until the sun
was high, and the temperature rose enough above freezing that the
tops of the snowdrifts went soft and glistening. Then he went to
bundle himself up for the walk, his eyes determined.

As he went, Anna thought
she heard something like a motor rumbling along out there. She went
out again, breath misting in the air...and yes, that was definitely
a diesel motor, coming closer. She stared...and saw a snowcat
blunder up the hill, its treads plowing across the snowdrifts
easily.

Amazed, she turned to go
back inside and call for Henry. But then she heard a voice call out
“Anna!”

James?

She turned back and poked
her head out again--and there he was, driving the snow-cat as close
to the door as he dared. His face was red from exertion, and his
eyes only started to lose the faint wildness of worry in them when
he saw her.

“There you are! I hate
being right sometimes.” He sighed relief and cut the engine. “Go
get him, wherever he’s got to. There's another storm due within the
hour. Let’s get the Hell out of here!”

She found Henry and they
hurried back to the door, stopping only to grab a few belongings.
The rest could damned well wait. “Jesus, am I glad to see you,”
Henry admitted as James frowned thoughtfully down at
him.

James’s scowl deepened,
and his tone filled with exasperation. “What the hell did I tell
you, Boss?”

“I know, I know. I really
owe you for this one.” He reached to help Anna up--and blinked,
because James had already scooped her up one-armed into the
cockpit. He stared for a moment, then sighed and climbed in with
them.

“
By the way...where did
you get this snowcat?”

“
Parks department,” James
said in a clipped tone.

“
Do...they...know you
borrowed it?”

James started up the
engine. “Nope.” His expression was grimly resigned.

“
I...see. Guess I’d better
be ready to smooth things over over there on your behalf,
then.”

“
That would be
appreciated.” James sighed quietly, then looked over at Anna. “You
all right?”

“
I am now. I could really
go for a gigantic breakfast about now, though.”

His eyes twinkled. “Well,
all right then, sounds like you’ll live. We’ll stop on the way if
we can find someplace open.” He spared a hard look at Henry.
“You’re buying.”

Henry laughed. “Okay,
agreed.”

James turned the snowcat
and headed back down the hill, bouncing them slowly toward the
tracks he had made from town. He turned to retread them, steering
them toward civilization. He whistled as he drove, seeming very
relieved despite the stern looks he occasionally gave Henry, or the
gently concerned ones he gave Anna.

Henry reached over as they
drove and gently folded Anna’s hand in his own behind James’s back.
He gave her a smile, and squeezed her hand comfortingly as they
left the farmhouse behind.

THE END

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