Kindred Spirits by Julianne Lee

Author:Julianne Lee [Lee, Julianne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: kindred spirits, julianne lee
ISBN: 9781611381566
Publisher: Book View Cafe
Published: 2012-03-06T17:42:31+00:00

Chapter 13

It was just dawn when Shelby awoke to find the big, warm man lying next to her wasn’t a dream after all. Lucas lay on his side, one arm beneath the pillow and the other draped across her belly. In the blue light coming through the windows, she noticed a bumpy scar at the crook of his left elbow. She’d seen it only once before, when she’d first glimpsed his ghost, and now she wondered what it was. She reached out with one finger to stroke the ugly, white knot. It looked like a burn.

“It was a stupid thing.” Lucas’s voice was thick with sleep.

“How stupid?”

He chuckled. “Moronic in the extreme. I should have known better; my thoughts just were elsewhere that day. First time I helped with the branding, I think I was about eight or nine at the time.” His body shifted weight, pressed to her, and she could feel him hardening against her hip. His thoughts were plainly elsewhere, even now. “Dad told me to bring him a couple of irons from the fire. And they were heavy. So I hauled them up and laid them in the crook of my arm for carrying.”

Shelby flinched. “Ow.”

“Far more than just ‘ow.’ I thought they were burning straight through my arm, and it was about to drop off to the ground. I couldn’t move it or lift it for weeks.”

She groaned.

He leaned over to kiss her. “Dad was furious. Said he couldn’t believe he had a son so stupid.”

“That was mean of him.”

Lucas shook his head. “I deserved it. What I had done was idiotic.”

“You were only a boy.”

He kissed her again, and she lost herself easily in his mouth and the rough, dark stubble against her cheek. His lips still lightly touching hers, he muttered softly, “Yes. And I’m not a boy any more.” He shifted, then settled himself between her thighs, and though she was sore it was good to feel him there, filling and pressing...stroking...pressing. He rocked slowly, easily this time. She hooked a heel at the small of his back and encouraged him to press harder. More insistently. For a long time he kept it up, his breaths coming in short puffs through his nose. The tension rose in her, steady, slow, but inexorable. Lucas seemed to be enjoying himself, in no hurry to finish, but with no special effort to not finish. Only rocking, rocking, rocking, pressing himself to her, rocking some more, rocking, until her back arched of its own accord and her knees took it upon themselves to spread wider to let him in even farther. And he accepted, shoving himself deeper. Harder.

A long, incoherent sound rose from her throat and a shudder took her. Lucas shushed her and laid a hand over her mouth, but just then he was distracted by his own shuddering and groaning. He chuckled as he collapsed to the side. With a sigh, he whispered, “Pay mind to the cries. Folks will talk.”

Silly folks. But Shelby knew there was nothing for it but to heed the warning, because he was right.

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