Beneath an Iron Sky by Nancy Morse

Author:Nancy Morse
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: native american, historical romance, sioux, lakota, ghost dance, womens rights, nancy morse, dakota territory
Publisher: Nancy Morse

Chapter 23

Afterwards, she lay nestled in the crook of his arm, feeling drowsy and sated. “Where did you learn to…to… you know.”

“When I was a boy, my first time was with a mixed-blood girl on the reservation. She showed me how to do something to her that gave her pleasure. One day I will do it to you.”

“You mean there’s more.”

He chuckled. “Yes. Much more.”

“I liked it,” she shyly confessed. “Once the pain went away. Is it always like that?”

He ran his hand up and down her arm in a lazy pattern. “It is like that with a woman for the first time. Did no one ever tell you?”

“My mother died when I was five, and Aunt Abigail never said.”

“I remember her. She did not like me.”

“She did not know you.”

“What will she say when she learns of this?” he ventured.

“She will not like it. But I am old enough to make my own decisions.” She turned in his arms. Crossing her hands over his chest, she rested her chin on them and looked up at him. “What are you thinking?”

“That a very beautiful woman is making this man’s blood hot again.” He reached for her and pulled her into his arms.

Del squealed with delight. “Are you going to do to me what you did to the half-breed girl?”

“Not now. But I am going to do this.”

He rolled her onto her back and entered her quickly. She was hot and moist and ready for him. And once again he drowned in her tightness and in the way she closed her legs around him, pulling him in deeper until she began to gasp and call his name.

He stayed inside of her for a long while, even after he had emptied the last of his seed. When at last he withdrew, he collapsed beside her. He knew the danger of spilling his seed into her, but she was his now, all his, and if Wakan Tanka had destined them to be together, what better way to strengthen their unlikely union than to bring forth a child conceived in a love that had been so long in the making.

“My aunt will be worried about me,” Del said at length. “I must go back before it gets dark and explain.”

“She will not understand.”

“There is much in life we do not understand,” Del said as she went in search of her clothes. “Like the Ghost Dance.” She pulled her ripped chemise on over her head, saying, “People do not understand how you can believe that by dancing the buffalo will return and the white man will disappear.”

Crow Eagle got to his feet and went to her. Wrapping his arms around her from behind, he pressed his body against hers. “A Paiute man named Wovoka had a dream on a magical day when the sun was black in the sky.”

“A solar eclipse,” she offered. “It is when hanhepi wi passes between the earth and the sun. There is nothing magical about that. Don’t you remember we learned about it in class?”

Brushing aside the memory of Carlisle, he went on.

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