Chapter 27

The next day, after her interview with Alex Grand, Kelsey drove back to the JL Star. She felt exhausted, although Alex certainly wasn’t the reason she was feeling so poorly. The rancher was sexy in a hard and dangerous kind of way. No doubt it would take a hell of a woman to tame that man.

Chickens scattered in front of the SUV as Kelsey pulled up to the ranch, and thoughts of Kade washed over her. How did she manage to fall so completely for his charm? To fall so completely...

No. She wasn’t even going there. She pushed the thought to the back of her mind as she noticed Chuck’s truck was gone and that Kade wasn’t home yet.

Late-afternoon shadows stretched across the driveway, and when Kelsey checked the dashboard clock, she saw it was after three. Kade could be home soon, or might come in as late as seven at night, depending on how his day went. She parked, grabbed her belongings, and headed for the front door.

Roxie gave Kelsey her usual greeting, slobbering all over Kelsey’s pants. She’d come to love the rottweiler as much as every person in the family.

The house was locked, and she opened the door with the key the Turners had loaned her. A note on the fridge said that Sadie, Chuck, and Trent were at the Perez home for a surprise birthday party for Jamie and would be gone through dinner, and that Kelsey was invited.

After tossing her purse and laptop onto her bed, Kelsey changed into shorts and a T-shirt, and wandered into the kitchen, barefoot. The house was eerily quiet, save for the tick of the kitchen clock. She missed Trent’s chatter, Chuck’s dry wit, and Sadie’s musical laughter.

And Kade. His presence that filled the room. His touch. His teasing grin.

Kelsey couldn’t hold back a smile, thinking about the time they’d spent together last night in his plane. She now had at least one positive thing to think about when it came to small planes.

A sound like a car door slamming came from outside, interrupting her thoughts.

Kade. Kelsey hurried to the bathroom, ran a brush through her hair, and touched up her lipstick. She smelled Kade’s apple shampoo from the shower, the scent reminding her of him, the feel of his hair under her fingers. She ached to touch him.

The front door opened and shut, the sound reverberating through the house. She couldn’t help smile as she walked back to the living room.

He was kicking off his boots and when he saw her he gave her a weary smile. “Damn but it’s good to see you when I get home.”

Kelsey’s heart skipped a beat. “I’ll bet. You just want some good hard sex.”

Kade’s lips quirked into a grin. “I’d have to say that’s an added bonus.”

She laughed and went to him, but he held her off with an upraised hand. “Gotta take my shower, sweetheart. Been one of those days.”

Kelsey gave him a teasing smile. “How about I lather you up real good, cowboy?”

Kade raised an eyebrow. “I could live with that.”

After he threw his clothes into the washing machine and he grabbed a condom, they slipped into the bathroom. Kelsey stripped out of her clothes while Kade climbed in under the spray. She followed him and took the bar of soap he was holding.

She began lathering his whole body, starting with his muscled chest and shoulders and working her way on down. The soap had a clean outdoorsy scent that she identified with Kade. Water streamed over her as she soaped his thighs and ignored his erection.

“Turn around,” she ordered him after she soaped him all the way down to his feet. He looked a little disappointed that she’d ignored his package, but he faced the spray so that his back was to her.

Still on her knees, Kelsey was now staring at his tight butt cheeks. She sighed. Yeah, an ass you could just bite.

A bit of mischievousness rose up inside her and she leaned forward so that her lips were against his wet skin. And then she bit.

“Hey.” Kade turned his upper torso and pulled lightly on her hair so that she was looking up at him. He had an eyebrow cocked and a spark in his eyes. “Who said you could bite my ass?”

She grinned. “I did. Now turn around and let me finish the job.”

“Ass-biting wench,” Kade grumbled in a teasing tone.

“Now brace your hands on the wall while I take care of you, mister.”

He obliged and she proceeded to soap the back of his body, up his legs to that fine ass that she was tempted to bite again. She continued on up to the broad expanse of his back and his shoulders. Soap and water streamed down his back and shoulders and water pelted her face and hair.

“Face me,” she demanded, doing her best to sound forceful.

Kade turned with his hands up and a stern look, as if he were being arrested.

Kelsey laughed and started soaping the fine curls around his cock and he lowered his hands, closed his eyes, and tipped his head back in the spray. She sighed at the sight of her wonderful man, his power, his masculine beauty.

Her man.

Kelsey shook away the thought and washed his cock, then let the water rinse away the soap. She set the bar aside in the soap dish. “I want you to stroke yourself now. I want to see how you pleasure yourself.”

“You mean jack off?” he said, opening his eyes and raising his eyebrows.

She narrowed her gaze. “Do it, cowboy.”

An amused expression crossed his face and he gripped his cock in his big hand. Kelsey watched in fascination as he worked his erection from his balls to the head, his thumb rubbing over the tiny hole at the top before sliding back down his length. He studied her while he did it, and she wondered where her sudden confidence had come from, the way she was ordering him to do things she’d fantasized about.

She felt so comfortable with him now, like she knew him better than anyone she’d ever known.

Could he feel the same way?

She lowered her head to lick the top of his cock. Kade released his erection and moved his hands into her wet hair as she slid her mouth over him, taking him deep.

She loved the way he felt in her mouth, the way he felt in her hand as she licked and sucked his cock. She loved the way he gripped his hands in her hair and guided her up and down.

Just as she thought he was about to come, he commanded her, “Stop.” When she looked up at him, he said, “It’s my turn now.”

Kelsey let his wet cock slide out of her mouth. “Oh?”

“Yeah.” He took her by her shoulders and raised her, then grabbed the condom he’d left open on the edge of the tub and rolled it over his cock.

“Put your arms around my neck,” he said as he brought her flush against him. Her folds ached and excitement skittered throughout her when Kade gripped her ass and said, “Hold on.”

She squealed in surprise as he lifted her up and drove his cock inside her. Kelsey clenched her legs around his hips and hung on tight as he raised her up and down, thrusting in and out of her. Water from the shower poured over her head and face, and it was so like her fantasy that it made her all the more excited.

The power in his arms, his muscles flexing, and the concentration in his expression undid her. She came so fast it made her head spin.

Kade climaxed moments later and hugged her tightly to him as his cock continued to throb within her.