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He licked and laved the dimples at the back as she helplessly
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writhed to get more. He left a sweet ache, but she couldn’t get relief.
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He spread her thighs, his fi ngers tiptoeing up her legs until
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he got to her pussy. “Wet.” He circled her clit with his fi ngertip 04
and she pushed back.
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“Fuck me.”
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“Oh, I will.”
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She may have sobbed, but he caught her clit between the pads
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of his fi ngers and squeezed. Not hard. But with enough pressure
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to send a wave of pleasure through her so intense a fl ush heated
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her from head to toe in seconds.
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His cock brushed against the back of her thigh. Wet at the
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head. She licked her lips, remembering his taste.
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And then he moved, brushing against her with the head of
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his cock, not quite entering her.
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She groaned.
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“You’re hungry for it?”
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“Yes!”
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He chuckled, and it only made her hotter. Only made her
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want it more. He kneaded her ass with his free hand, and every
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once in a while he’d brush his fi ngertips over her asshole. Just a 21
little.
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“Ass up. Keep your head down.”
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She managed to get her knees beneath her to comply. She
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was open this way, she knew what she must have looked like all
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spread open and she didn’t care. No, it wasn’t that she didn’t
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care. She
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it. Knew he was looking.
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And he was inside, right as he fl icked her clit over and over
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so she came right as he got in all the way.
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She writhed back on a near shout as she came all around his
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cock. He had to close his eyes and count to fi fty before he moved
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again.
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He sucked in a breath like a drowning man, sliding his palms
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over every part of her skin he could reach. She was good and
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right. Strong. Gone was the woman on the verge of splintering
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apart that had nearly broken his heart earlier that day.
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His Mary was back. The connection between them stronger
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and deeper, and need, as always with her, raced over his skin as
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he fucked her hard and deep.
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“This feels so good I never want to leave.”
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She moaned her agreement, her fi ngers gripping the blankets
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for purchase.
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“Think you’ve got another one in you, Mary Elizabeth?”
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“Only if you come with me.”
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Which worked out ,because he was close.
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He bent around her, embracing her for long moments, soak-
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ing it in, the way she felt there, receiving him, open to him.
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Wanting more.
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“No one has ever made me feel this. Ever. It’s only you.
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Always you.”
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He brushed his fi ngertips over her thighs and found her cunt
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wet and inferno hot. He touched her clit gently, knowing she’d
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be sensitive. Slowly, he built her up as she squeezed his cock,
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getting closer and closer.
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“I love you,” she said softly, and it was too much. Everything.
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“I love you too.” He bit her shoulder and picked up his speed.
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Thrusting deep, so, so deep and hard as she rolled her hips to
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meet him. As she made a sound, a tortured gasp of a moan, and
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came.
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Yes.
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He followed, coming so hard he had to roll to the mattress
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even as aftershocks rolled through him or he’d have fallen off.
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He held her. Held on tight and she snuggled back.
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he stood to the left of the stage and watched him.
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Watched her man play drums and sing, a huge grin on
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his face.
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Raven was next to her, along with Erin and Daisy. “Kinda
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cool to know the drummer’s girlfriend so she can get us back-
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stage.”
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“Ha! Not like you’re already besties with Erin, who I’m sure
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has plenty of backstage- pass connections.”
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“Seems so odd that it’s been a year since we did this before.”
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Gillian and Adrian had become parents to a beautiful baby girl
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they called Poppy. Poppy was already an honorary member of
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Delicious and Mary often shipped freshly made baby food from
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Sweet Hollow Ranch.
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Where she’d been living for three months.
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She’d given up her life in Bainbridge and had come to Oregon.
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It had been more and more diffi cult to manage the supper club
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once it had become more well- known that she was with Damien.
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Gawkers had tried to crash, especially if Damien had been there.
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And that was often because he liked to spend the weekends with
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her in Bainbridge.
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So he’d offered her his home and his kitchen to do whatever
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she wanted with. Which, at that point, meant working on a
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second cookbook since the fi rst had hit the bookstores and the
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bestseller lists.
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Her life was not where she imagined it would be the August
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before as they stood on this same stage in the Columbia River
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Gorge, listening to a man she had only known a few months
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play his drums.
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But it was better. Full of love and laughter. A new family to
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go with the one she already had. The Hurleys, who loved her
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like their own.
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Sweet Hollow Ranch’s new CD,
Revolutionary
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out three weeks before and was enjoying the success it deserved.
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For the next three months she’d go on tour with them, being at
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his side as they went from city to city.
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Eating the best the country had to offer. She already had the
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kernel of an idea for the new cookbook. Regional recipes she’d
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create as they traveled. And then they’d head to South America
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and Australia.
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Daisy squeezed her hand. Levi stood behind her friend, his
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arms around her. She wore the engagement ring he’d given her
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over the holidays and of course Mary would do the food for the
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wedding. And Jules would do the cake. Because that’s what
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Delicious did.
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They took a pause and Damien turned her way with a huge
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smile before speaking to the audience.
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“Thank you all for coming out here tonight. A year ago this
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month we were here opening up for Adrian Brown. He and his
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family are here tonight and he’s graciously agreed to come out
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and do a song with us.
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Adrian came out on stage. The crowd went wild and Mary
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just kept smiling. Gillian had left the baby back in the trailer
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with Miles, who guarded his baby sister like a lion.
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“Look at our men, Mary. You and I have rock stars in our
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beds. Who’d have ever thought?”
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“Without you and Adrian I’d never have met him. So thanks
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for fi nding your rock star and marrying him so I could fi nd one
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of my own.”
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Damien drummed a little to get everyone’s attention. “So
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Revolutionary
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your life and heart that changes you to the bone. During the
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time we wrote and recorded, I had my own revolution. Her name
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is Mary, and I would very much like it if she’d agree to marry me.”
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She wasn’t the only one who gasped. All around her, her
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friends sucked in surprised breaths and then laughed.
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“What do you say, Curly? Will you marry me?” He got out
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from behind the drums and moved in her direction, pulling her
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out on stage and then getting to one knee, pulling a ring box
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from his pocket.
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“Holy cow. You’re so sneaky! What if I said no?”
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“But you won’t. I’ve got you hooked. Part of my plan, you
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see. First taste is free and then you’re mine forever. So what do
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you say? Huh? Be my missus. Have my babies. Protect us all
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from demon pigs and crappy road food.”
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Tears came in a way only he seemed to be able to evoke. She
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nodded. “I guess I’d better.”
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He slid the ring on her fi nger and stood, pulling her into an
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embrace as the entire Gorge cheered them on.
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“I guess I should tell you now that the thing I’ve kept ban-
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daged for the last week that you thought was from my doctor’s
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visit is really a tattoo. I’ll show it to you later. In private.”
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It was on her hip. His initials, curled with hers in the shape
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of a four- leaf clover. Erin’s brother Brody had done it when she’d 13
gone to visit Seattle the week before.
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“Hot damn. I sure do love you.”
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“I love you too. Now go play me some music and let those
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girls out there know whose bed you sleep in every night.”
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He kissed her hard and fast and thrilled her. As he always did.
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