Holding Court by Celeste Rupert

Holding Court by Celeste Rupert

Author:Celeste Rupert [Rupert, Celeste]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781844434
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2013-07-29T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter Six

Clara’s hips jerked, rocking away the last of her orgasm as Court flipped her onto her side and kissed her.

“You having fun?” he asked, trying to regain his breath, as his body began to recover from the exertion. Court reached behind her and loosened her wrists, massaging away the marks from her bonds.

“You know I am.” Clara kissed under the edge of his jaw and he delighted in the feel of her soft lips against the sensitive skin.

He folded her in to his body, and Clara snuggled into the expanse of his chest. “I missed you.” He spoke against her hair, the silky strands tickling his lips.

“Me too,” Clara said. “It was too long this time, too long since to you came to me.”

Court tightened his arms around her. Clara was right, it had been too long and now, with her warmth and softness curled against him, he wondered how he was going to leave her again. “Definitely too long, I’m sorry.”

“You’re here now.” Clara snuggled closer. “And we have all night.”

“It’s just been so hard to get away.” Court breathed in the scent of her hair. She smelt of lavender. Always of lavender. “First it was the round up, which never goes smoothly with old Tennant involved, trying to lay claim to any calf not sucking a branded cow, and then you heard about the rustlers? That took some time to deal with, and now there’s Sheriff Bonner visiting every other day and telling me that this town needs a proper mayor, and if I don’t run it’ll be Tennant, and no one wants that. And then this storm.” He paused, listening for the wind. It was dying down as morning grew near. That was a good sign—maybe it was over for now. “Maybe I shouldn’t have left, but I needed to see you.”

Clara stiffened away from him, taking her warmth with her. “If you have to go…”

“No.” Court pulled her back against him, but she was tense in his arms. He cursed himself for bringing it up. “I’m just sorry I didn’t come sooner.”

Clara didn’t say anything, but the air around her was suddenly heavy with tension.

“What are you thinking?” Court could practically hear the wheels turning in her brain.

“It’s nothing.”

“Don’t lie to me, Clara.” He lowered his voice. “Or do you want to be punished?” He kneaded the tender flesh of her ass.

Clara giggled and wiggled against him and Court relaxed a little. “Well, maybe, but that’s not the point.”

Court pulled back so he could see her and he touched her face, her skin unbelievably soft beneath his fingers. “What is it?”

“I was just thinking that this whole situation was your decision.” She sat up, out of his reach. “You always say that you’ve missed me, but it was you who said we couldn’t tell anyone, that they wouldn’t understand our arrangement.”

“I did,” Court said. “They wouldn’t—”

“But I was willing to risk it and I still am.” She held her clasped fist to her chest and Court watched the movement of her breasts.



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