The Trail Master's Bride (21 page)

“Yes, sir.”

“But I wouldn’t spank you for that, sweetheart.”

“You wouldn’t?”

“No, not having a bath is inconvenient, not dangerous or life-threatening.” As soon as he said that, another loud crack sounded inside and out. The one inside was accompanied by heat blazing across her cheek.

She screeched in surprise. “Hey! You said you wouldn’t spank me for that.”

“I wasn’t. I was spanking you for trying to run off in a temper. That habit has proven to be dangerous and life-threatening. I mean to put a stop to it, here and now.”

As the room lit up with a brilliant light, another hard spank fell on her bottom.

“I’m also spanking you for the big oaf remark, which is getting rather worn, wouldn’t you say?”

“It started as big stupid oaf, actually. I can go back to that.”

A sharp swat landed with his big hand covering most of both cheeks at once.

“Wes!”

He began to rub gently in big circles over her heated skin. After a moment, his fingertips dipped into the cleft of her cheeks and glided downward to the warm, wet, trembling groove between her thighs. Probing deeper, he found her center passage and dipped a finger inside.

“What did I say, darlin’?”

“Uh, what?” she asked on a panted breath, completely lost as to the meaning of his question.

“I said you were in for a treat.” He wiggled his finger, twisting it about before leaving her.

“No,” she groaned in protest.

But eight more spanks followed, given slowly with his open hand and interspersed with more rubbing, touching, dipping, and twisting. He alternated her cheeks, igniting every inch of her bottom. His finger teased inside her between each one, firing her passion.

After the final smack, he flipped her upright, pulling her astride his hips. Weston surged up inside her, his cock finding its warm, wet home by rote memory. As his hands clenched on her freshly chastised bottom, he growled, “Ride me, darlin’.”

“Is this part of my treat?” she asked, breathless from following his command and moving vigorously up and down on his hard, thick length.

“Yes, Mina. It’s also a little lesson in how much I love you and need you.”

She melted at his words, bending forward to take his mouth as he took her below with unabashed passion.

He plunged into her hard as his fingers threaded into her hair and held her head still. He paused while buried deep. “Look at me.”

Without so much as a thought of hesitation, she obeyed the clear command in his voice.

Midnight blue appeared black in the dim light of their bedroom. His hand flexed around the back of her head as he looked upon her with intensity. “Never run from me again, Mina. I want that promise now.”

She nodded, meaning it with every fiber of her being. “I won’t, Wes, I promise. I never want to leave your side, ever. I love you too much, honey.” The last words were muffled against his lips as he pulled her down to him, his mouth taking hers in a crushing kiss. Linked together, his hand in her hair, hers gripping his shoulders, their tongues entwined and legs entangled, he began to move again after receiving her vow. His cock thrusting relentlessly into her warm, wet passage spurred her cries of sweet bliss as her climax quickly overtook her. His release came later, after he brought her to pleasure a second time. If not for his lips by her ear, the rain and thunder would have drowned out his shout of fulfillment as he surged into her with his body, filling her with his seed.

* * *

Nine months later, Mina safely delivered their first daughter, who they named Joy. Two years passed and Weston found himself the father of another little girl called Virginia, after his mother. Margaret, who they called Maggie, followed a year after that, bearing the name of Mina’s mama. It wasn’t until Joy was seven that Mina gave her husband a set of twin sons. Where twins had come from, neither of them had a clue, but he was overjoyed to at last have some male support in his house full of women. They named the first boy Weston, but decided to call him by his middle name, Jacob, to avoid confusion. The second son was Benjamin, both boys named for their good friend who had watched the couple’s love story evolve, every step of the way along the Oregon Trail.

The End

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