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Authors: Paisley Cruz

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Come on. It wasn’t that bad.”

She looked up at him and smiled. “The kiss was…” She exhaled. “The heights part is what’s bad.”

They laughed a little.

She looked up at the old grandfather clock. It was almost ten. “Wow, I should get to bed. Six o’clock is going to come early.”


Yeah, you’re right. This was fun,” Levi told her. They each stood. He watched Kallie get her balance and then pick up the empty bottles.


Let me take those.” Levi took the bottles and watched as she walked to her room and closed the door.

He went into the kitchen and put the bottles in the recycling bin. He stood at the counter. She almost kissed him and Lord he wanted her to. More than she knew. More than he realized at first. It felt good to have his arm around her. To have her hugged tightly next to him. He wanted to feel her against him. He wanted to feel her body against his. He thrust his hand through his hair. He wanted to go to her, but what if she turned him away? Would it make things awkward between them for the last week? He shook the thought. He didn’t care. He had to try. He needed to try. He turned off the light in the kitchen and then turned the light down in the living room before going to her door. He knocked lightly and waited. It took a minute, but she finally came to the door and opened it. Her eyes were red and her face was blotchy. Had she been crying?


Levi?”


Do you ever miss it?” he asked.


Miss what?”


Miss that all consuming kiss? The kiss that makes everything else fade away to just me and you?”

Her breath caught as she looked up at him with her hazel green eyes. He watched as they turned a shade darker as all the fight in her body dissipated. The tension between them was getting to be too much and the way she looked standing in front of him with her tear-stained face tugged at something deep inside of him. He wanted, no, needed her. Without any hesitation, he closed the short distance between them and crushed her lips with his. She grabbed his hand and tugged him inside of the room shutting the door just in time to push him against it. With her small body pressed against his, he took the opportunity to reacquaint himself with her backside. She could push him away at any moment and he needed to get his fill. He needed to feed his addiction for her.

Kallie’s tongue pushed inside of his while her hands worked down his chest, pulling his shirt until it was up and over his head.

Is this really happening?

Then she laid kisses along his chest while her hands moved over his ribs to his hips and then back up until they were around his neck. Her lips came back to his. This was happening. He kicked himself in gear, pulling her shirt over her head to reveal a white satin bra and her cleavage spilling over just enough to tantalize him. He stepped back just a little to look down at her tiny body. He wanted to devour her, but more, he wanted to be buried inside of her. He wanted to feel her completely surrounding him until he was utterly lost in her. Damn, she was gorgeous.

He thought his heart would stop beating when he felt her small hands working at the button on his jeans. This was happening. It wasn’t a dream. His fingers tangled in her hair as his lips caressed hers. She was real, not an illusion in one of his dreams. She pushed his jeans to the floor and immediately he unbuttoned hers. His lips never leaving hers. She shimmied out of the skin-tight jeans, and before she could protest, he lifted her. She wrapped her short legs around him and as he started toward the bed, he unclasped her bra. Her hands tangled in his hair as she pulled his bottom lip into her mouth and sucked. He moaned while he lay her back on the bed.

 


You’re beautiful, Kallie.” He exhaled. “So beautiful it hurts,” he told her as he pulled her panties down.

He stood over her for a second admiring the beauty beneath him. The way her perfect nipples stood at attention, waiting for him. It was as if her body was made just for him and she was giving it to him. He kissed her gently before cupping her breasts and pulling her peak into his mouth. He sucked until her back arched beneath him pushing her breast into his face. He changed nipples and did the same. This time she panted.


Please, Levi.” She moaned to him but he wouldn’t give her the pleasure yet.

He stopped and kissed her stomach. He listened as she gasped. He leaned back and ran his hand down her neck to just between her breasts, to her stomach and then hips. He marveled at her perfect body and wanted to make it his. She pulled him back to her and kissed his lips. She wanted him and it felt good. She wanted him just as much as he’d wanted her all these years. He shivered above her, as he pulled back and looked down at the fervor in her eyes.


I need to hear it,” he told her. He had needed to hear it for years.


I need to hear it,” he told her again.


I want you, Levi. I only want you,” she whispered. He didn’t have to be told twice. He’d been waiting to hear those words from her lips for three years. He found his pants and pulled a condom from his wallet. He slid it on and climbed back onto the bed. He positioned himself at her entrance and looked down at her. He felt her legs wrapped tightly around his hips.


Please?” she asked, the words tantalizing his insides.

He licked his lips as he took in the features of her face. The way the light from the side table hit her face perfectly, illuminating her green eyes as she looked up at him. She was beautiful and she was his, if only for the night. He felt her legs pull at him, urging him inside of her. He pushed gently once and then again until he was buried deep inside her tight body. She moaned and he knew he was home. He knew that here, in this room, inside of her was where he belonged. Nothing had ever felt more right to him. It was as if he’d been lost the last three years and now he’d found himself. He kissed her lips as he thrust himself inside of her. She moaned his name and his chest ached. He’d missed her so terribly bad.


God, I’ve missed you,” he heard her say.


Me too,” Levi said pushing inside of her again.

She met him thrust for thrust, their bodies working together as if they’d never get enough of one another. Her eyes never leaving his as they looked deep inside his soul. Her nails raked down his back and he moaned, so close to the edge. He thrust into her and she moaned his name and knew she was almost there as well. He quickened his pace, while her grip on his back tightened until they both came undone in one another’s arms. He collapsed on top of her, resting his head on her breasts while she stroked his hair. He lay there for a few minutes listening to her heart race still inside of her as sleep enveloped him.

Chapter Twenty-Five

 

 

Kallie woke to her alarm going off. It was six o’clock. She moved to turn off the ringing contraption on her bedside table and felt his arms tighten around her. She turned to see Levi asleep on the bed beside her, naked. He looked innocent sleeping there. His hair was messy and fell in pieces onto his face as he breathed steadily, undisturbed. That was when everything hit her. What had she done? Levi was engaged and she slept with him last night. She was a home-wrecker. She threw the blanket back as another worry hit her. Nora.


Levi! Levi!” She shook his body as she wrapped the sheet around herself.

He stirred and looked up at her as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her close.


Good morning,” he said through sleepy eyes.

God how she just wanted to lay with him.


I hate to do this to you, but you have to go upstairs. Nora will be up soon and she can’t know you stayed in here last night.”


Kallie, she’s going to be sixteen. I mean, she knows that these things happen.”


Not with her big sister they don’t.”

He laughed. “All right. Can I go to the bathroom first?” he asked.

She looked at him and then nodded. She watched as he got up and walked to the bathroom naked. Something inside of her stirred as she watched his bare ass walk through her bathroom door. She shook her head and rolled her eyes as a small smile teased her lips.


He’s engaged and you just slept with him! You home-wrecker!” Kallie whispered to herself.

She slipped on his old T-shirt and started to make the bed. He came out of the bathroom and tugged on his jeans before sitting down and guiding her onto his lap. He kissed her and pulled back, her necklace catching his attention. His hands found it and held it. Her heart raced in her chest.


You still wear this?” Levi asked.

It was the locket he’d given her the night she’d won her second NBRA World championship.


I haven’t taken it off.”

He started to open it and she shut it closed. He couldn’t see the ultrasound picture folded inside of the locket.


You have to go,” she told him.

He kissed her lips once more, immediately she hated herself for kissing him and enjoying it so much.


Fine.”

He kissed her again. This time she told herself it was the last time.


Levi!”


I can’t help that I can’t get enough of you.”

He stood and picked up his white T-shirt. He turned and walked out the door. Kallie sighed and jumped in the shower.

Fifteen minutes later, she emerged and walked into the kitchen to see her sister sitting at the bar eating a bowl of cereal.


How’d you sleep? Are you nervous?” Kallie asked.


No. Yes. Maybe a little.”


For school or for Nolan?” Kallie laughed.


Both!”


You’re officially a Junior! I never thought I’d see the day.” Kallie said, sitting down beside her.


So, I met Levi on the steps this morning,” Nora started.

Kallie sighed. “I’m sorry you had to see that.”


It’s fine. He told me that he fell asleep on the front porch anyway.” Nora giggled.


He was always a terrible liar.”

The girls laughed.


I think we should talk about this. I mean, I don’t think it will—”


Kallie, we’ve had the sex talk… Thoroughly. You’re an adult,” Nora told her.

Kallie blushed a little. Talking to her younger sister about sex had been awkward, but Kallie wanted her to know the basics and wanted to have an open relationship about those things, but most of all she hoped Nora would never find herself in the situation she was in three years prior.


So are you going to tell him?”

Levi walked into the kitchen.


Tell me what?”


Tell you that you’re late for graining the animals,” Kallie recovered.

The three of them joined the ranch hands as they fed the animals. Levi kept stealing glances at Kallie and she’d just smile. Her heart danced in her chest every time she felt his eyes on her. She felt like a schoolgirl and not the twenty-five-year-old she was. Once he even pulled her into a stall and kissed her. She walked away.


We can’t do this. I mean, there’s a time and a place for these things, and now isn’t it.”

She started to walk away but he caught her waist and dragged her back to him.

Kallie giggled. “When did you become such an adult?”

She smiled and shook her head as she pushed him against the stall wall and kissed him long and deep. When she finally pulled away he held onto the wall. She laughed and walked out of the barn to feed the bulls.

Once the morning chores were done, Nolan pulled up. Kallie watched Nora run inside to grab her bag and Levi walk up to the truck. Kallie followed him. She watched as Levi introduced himself.


Hey, Nolan!” Kallie called to him.

Nora came storming out of the house. She kissed her sister and hurried toward the truck.


Take care of my little sister!” Kallie told him.

Nolan nodded and said, “Yes, ma’am”

She smiled and waved as Levi joined her.


How are you smiling right now?” Levi asked.


What do you mean?”


You just sent your little sister off with a guy.”


Yeah, a guy that I’ve known for three years, and have a working relationship with his father.” Kallie patted his back. “Come on, Levi. It’s not that bad. They’re just going to school.”

She laughed as they walked up the stairs and into the kitchen where they helped Cookie get breakfast together. Soon guests were dwindling in and the room was full of excitement. Today was the first day the guys got to ride a bull and the girls actually got to start barrel racing. They all ate and then started their day.

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