Heartbreak's Reward (Double Dutch Ranch Series: Love at First Sight Book 2) (32 page)

“You have my promise, Brenna. I respect her…and you very much.”

Was she really here listening to a nineteen year old boy—man? “I don’t know what to say, Davy.”

Chloe pulled the door open. “Can I have my boyfriend now?”

Brenna turned toward her. Chloe’s eyes were on Davy, and Brenna saw a look she had never seen on her sister’s face before. Her blue eyes sparkled. Her smile was soft and sweet. She glanced at Davy, who had the same look except his brown eyes looked like melted chocolate.
Omigod, they are in love.

“Yeah, sis, you can have your boyfriend.” Brenna lifted her eyes to Davy. “I’ll keep your word tucked into my heart, but believe me if you hurt her, you’ll wish you hadn’t.” And she meant it. She was damn good with her pistol and rarely missed her target.

“I meant what I said. Maybe a guy’s word doesn’t mean much where you came from, but here it’s everything. Are we finished?”

“We are, Davy. Don’t stay out late.”

“Catch ya, later, ma’am.” He walked to Chloe and clasped her hand. Brenna turned. “Have fun, you two.”

Jase opened the door when they left. “Is it safe to come out?”

She held her hand out to him. “Did you say your house was about two miles through the desert?”

“Yes, ma’am. A tumbleweed or two.”

“Can we go there…now?”

Jase set his plate of pie on the table outside the door and came to her. “Yeah, we can do that right now.”

Brenna smiled. “Finish your pie first.” She gave a direct stare into his intense blues that could’ve melted a glacier.

He shook his head and took her hand. “I’ll wrap it for later. Let’s go.”

The house was dark when they pulled up. He released the clutch and lifted the console, scooting over to meet Brenna half way. “I don’t know if I can wait until we get in the house. Get into these arms, my beauty.” He wrapped her in his embrace. “I can’t believe how I need, want you.” He buried his face at the curve of her shoulder, brushed her hair away, and kissed her neck. “I love you, Bren.”

“Can we go inside?” She could barely get her words out. “I want you right now. This, this thing you started between us is bubbling up inside of me, and I only know one way to quench the boil. You. I need to make love to you. Make love to
me
.”

Jase’s kiss was forceful and needy. Exactly what she wanted from him. His tongue darted against hers, driving her hungry urge more over the edge. She straddled his thighs right there in the front seat of his truck in the dark beneath the stars and God…and the gearshift. “I can’t wait any longer. The monster you’ve created wants loose.”

He lifted her off him, scooted out his driver door and around the front of his truck. He opened her door and lifted her into his arms, but instead of going inside he detoured toward his trailer. He released her to the ground and unlocked it. Inside the door, he took a flashlight.

“Come in, baby. One more new experience to add to your repertoire.” He flashed the light around for her to get a look. “Not what you expected, huh?”

“Not at all,” she said. “You’re right, it is nicer than my hotel room. It also has more furniture than your house.” He rummaged through drawers.

He lit a bunch of candles and pointed the light toward two steps. “My lair…my love.” He cocked his head toward the bedroom and took her hand. “Queen size bed, as I mentioned.”

“Yes, it is. You were correct.” She gave a big sigh and ended it with a drawn out moan as she went up the steps.

Jase set a candle on the dresser. Brenna went into his arms, fisting his hair. “Jase, oh, Jase…”

Without delay, he tore her jeans off her body like a wild man, yet, took a minute to give her a quick look, noticing her black lacy thong. In a split second’s time his jeans were off. Dropping to the bed on his back, he pulled her on top of him. “You’re so sexy.”

Brenna’s thoughts were frazzled, but she sat astride his thighs and lifted his shirt off. She closed her eyes and touched him, running her fingertips over his hot, muscled chest. Peering down, she was amazed at the look of him beneath her. “So lovely.”

When Jase unbuttoned her shirt, she slid it off, and he reached around to undo her bra, sliding the straps off her shoulders and letting it drop. His hands went to her breasts with a firm squeeze.

She lifted up and went back onto her elbows, letting him explore while she baked a little more. She sat up and boldly grasped him gently, but with the way he was moving Brenna, knew he wanted much more.

Leaning forward she slid her hands over his chest, and kissed his warm lips, nibbling lower to his throat. The beating pulse in his neck urged her on. She wanted to give him the same love he had given her the very first time.

Kissing him lower, she tantalized one nipple, suckling for an instant, long enough to make it plump and hard before she went even lower. His sexy eyes closed, barely open but enough for him to see what she did. “Mmm, my baby, I love you and I want to pleasure you, too.”

He raised up, wrapping his hand around her nape, bringing her face close, kissing her anxiously and giving off beast-like groans. Brenna kissed him back with all the passion that had built up since she met this man.

“I can’t wait any longer to have you, sweetie,” she mumbled alongside his lips. He held her against his kiss.

She was lost in him.
I died and went to orgasmic heaven
.

Horses neighed and moved around in the barn beside them. The smell of hay and animals floated through the air and mingled with their colognes, but all she thought about was the way her sexy man looked as flickering candlelight wavered over his sweaty skin.

When he removed his lips from her craving mouth, she smiled, and eased down onto him. She screamed out but more kisses drowned out her yelps. “Mmmm… Omigod, wow!”

She flowed with each arch he made, and she didn’t recognize who she was. The only thing visible to her was the screams into the darkness and his mouth against her neck, breasts, lips, and her eyes. His body was hot and satisfying, taking her to levels of bliss higher than she could have imagined. Shouting out and moving quicker against him she held him when his body bucked, arched, screeched out her name, and she replied with his. “Jase!”

“Oh, baby…baby. That was all the way past heaven and back. Whew, girl. I can’t breathe… Wow!”

He embraced her and she melted against his chest, her thighs still straddling him, her skin sticking to his. She was lost…lost. “Honey.” Brenna paused. “And this is just the beginning of what I can…expect? I think it’ll kill me.”

He held her and stared into her eyes with love. “No, it won’t. Uh uh, sweetheart. It’ll bring you to life. Me too. I told you…you saved me. My trailer has never…rocked like this.”

Brenna stretched out on top of him. “Hold me. Don’t let go.”

“Never. You’re stuck with this guy.”

“I wanna be stuck
with
you,
to
you in every which way.”

“Count on it, you sexy monster.”

Brenna closed her eyes and relaxed, envisioning what just happened between them—still soaring on the high her inner being went to along with her body. The feeling of his skin beneath her fingertips was warm. She still tingled inside and slowly came back to normal thinking. Her eyes popped open…
We didn’t use any protection!

***

Sometime later Jase nudged her. She was sleeping mostly on top of his body, their limbs tangled, and skin sticking to each other. He could get used to this. “Are you awake?”

Brenna stretched and moved to his side. She glanced around the near dark room. “I have to get home. What time is it?” She sat up, searching for her clothes. “I want to see this place in the daytime.”

“It’s ten minutes past eleven. Come tomorrow. I’ll get you on the horse. Maybe you’ll have a name for the mare by then.”

“I’ll try. Please get dressed so I can go home.”

“I will darlin’, but first, come here.” He took hold of her arm and pulled her back to his side. Jase brushed her silky blonde hair away from her face. “Brenna, I want you to know how much I love you. What you’ve done for my life. I honest to God meant it when I said you saved me. I’ll forever be searching for my kids, but you make the in-between times bearable. Thank you.”

“Meeting you was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. You’re not the only one doing the thanking. Mine and Chloe’s lives have changed too. And I love you.”

He pulled her closer and didn’t want to let her go. Ever. How did this happen, that this woman was all of a sudden in his life…
and
part of his whole world?

“I have to go home. Chloe will be worried. I don’t even know where my phone is.”

He got out of bed and dressed, and didn’t miss when Brenna’s eyes raked over him before he pulled his jeans up. He laughed inwardly, proud that he could please her, and happy that she pleased him the way she did. “Come on, you’re phone is probably in the truck.” He ran his fingers through his hair, blew out the candles, and took her hand.

When they got in his truck, she found her phone. “I have three messages from Chloe. I hope she’s okay.”

Jase watched her trying to call but her fingers were shaking. He took her phone and dialed Chloe’s number and handed it back, realizing she was almost in a panic. He firsthand saw the impact of her family loss. How important she and Chloe were to each other.

“Are you all right, Chloe?” Brenna covered the phone. “It sounds like she’s been crying.”

He laid one hand on her thigh and used the other to push her hair over her shoulder. Her reaction to her sister choked him up because he knew she was close to losing it. He started the truck and headed out.

“I’m fine, Chloe. I left my phone in Jase’s truck and we were…we were inside. I’m coming home right now. I love you, honey. I’m sorry.” Brenna covered her face with both hands when she sat her phone down. “Oh, I can’t do that again. She was petrified.”

“We’ll be there soon, and from now on we’ll make sure your phone is always with you.” When they pulled into the parking lot he parked and walked inside with her. Davy sat on the sofa beside Chloe. She got up and came to Jase, pushed him in the chest with both hands, and started to do it again, but he caught her wrists. He drew her against him, giving her the kind of security she didn’t have.

“Chloe, it wasn’t Jase’s fault,” said Brenna.

She shook herself free from Jase’s hold, and turned to Brenna. Tears streamed down Chloe’s face. “I thought something happened to you!” She openly trembled.

Davy came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her. He closed his eyes and held her.

Jase glanced at Brenna to see how she took to that act, but she looked relieved. “I have to get back, hon. The horses need to be fed and watered. I have chores to complete.” When she smiled at him his temperature went up a couple degrees. Hell, maybe he hadn’t come down from his high yet.

Chloe went back to the sofa with Davy and he sat with his arm around her.

Brenna stood with Jase at the door. “I’ll see you tomorrow.” He pulled her close, and whispered. “You’re okay with those two doing
that
?”

“Yes, I…I have to be. They’re in love. I can’t stand in the way of love.” She lowered her voice. “He promised he wouldn’t…you know.”

Now he was the one not knowing how to handle this. Davy sure as hell better handle things the right way. Embracing her tighter, he said, “I get it. Bren. I don’t want to leave you. I love you.”

“See you tomorrow. Farewell for now. I love you, too.”

He kissed her on the forehead but brought her against him one more time. “Brenna,” he whispered.
How’d I get this way?
Jase backed away and put his hat on. “Night, sweetheart.” He turned and left, weakened by her, shaking his head as he slid behind the wheel of his truck. Inside, he gripped the steering wheel with both hands, tilting his head back against the headrest. He closed his eyes. “Shit.”
I didn’t use protection.
“Irresponsible bastard.”

***

At home, he first went into the barn and began feeding and watering his horses, but his thoughts didn’t once leave that blonde he fell in love with almost at first sight. Everything about her was wild and sexy, yet so innocent and compelling. When he came back to Warrior’s stall nearly an hour later, he put his bridle on him. “Let’s go for a ride, boy. We both need it.”

With the final buckle, he took hold of the reins and leapt to his back. They slowly walked outside and to the edge of the desert. Looking upward, the sky was littered with stars and the night was clear and black. He inhaled the night air, dust, and plain old dry grass. “Just a short ride, Warrior. Let’s go boy.” He kicked his heels and off they went into a trot, but it wasn’t long before he let Warrior set the pace into a steady gallop.

Coyote’s howled in the distance and his horse slowed up and came to a walk on his own. He patted his neck and talked smoothly to him. “It’s okay, you’re good.” He pulled the reins and turned around, heading back to the barn, not wanting to venture out too far in the dark with no protection on him.
Seems I’m good at forgetting protection tonight.

Once back at the barn Jase got down and walked him back inside. He removed his bridle, took a minute to brush him down and check his hooves. When Sugar Plum grunted, he decided to take some time with her tomorrow, brush her real good, and maybe take her on a short ride behind him and Warrior. He had to ask himself if he was avoiding going inside his lonely house.

Yes, he was. The minute he hit that bed, his thoughts would be on Brenna, his kids, and his aching heart when he was left alone. And as with every other night, he’d pray that the next day would be the day…the day he’d bring his babies home.

He went inside his horse trailer and straightened up the bed. Inhaling a big whiff of her perfume, he took a minute to relive the highs, the ecstasy that went on there not long ago.
Shake it off, dude
. He literally shook, his shoulders showing a tremble. He tucked his
milksop weakness
away and stuck the candles back where they belonged.