After he holstered the gun, then removed it and hung it within easy reach, she tossed the sheet away to reveal her nude body.
“Beth,” he asked, “where does your family think you are this time?”
“Still working on that damned dress,” she said. “I told them it’s been givin’ me starts and fits.”
“And they believe you?”
“My family always believes what I tell them, Clint,” she said.
“That’s all well and good,” he said, “but what are you doing here now?”
She pouted because she had reached for him and he’d stepped back.
“You’re gonna be leavin’ tomorrow, aren’t you?” she asked.
“Well, yes, but—”
“Then this is the last chance I’ll ever have to be with you.”
“Beth—”
“After you leave I’ll have to go back to my husband,” she said. “Clint, he’s so boring!”
”And your son?”
“Harry is wonderful, but this is not about him. This is about you and me.”
“Beth …”
She settled down on her back, raised one knee, put her hands behind her neck and said, “Are you going to say no to this?”
Her nipples were already hard.
“You’re the only man who makes me feel this way, Clint,” she said, “wanton, and sexy. When you leave it will all be gone.”
He stared at her naked body, then shook his head. There was no way to turn her down and still be human. He undid his belt and trousers and growled, “Damn you, woman!”
As Terry was riding out of town she saw her father riding in.
“I thought I’d find you here.”
“Daddy—”
“What were you trying to do?” he demanded. “Convince Adams not to take the job? Do you know what will happen to him if he doesn’t?”
“Of course I do,” she said. “He told me. Don’t worry, he turned down everything I had to offer him—and I offered him everything.”
“I don’t want to hear that,” Restin said. “Let’s get back to the house.”
“I know,” Terry said. “I’ve got to pack!”
Clint ran his finger along Beth’s naked spine as she lay on her belly beside him.
“You have a beautiful back,” he told her.
“You see?” she said. ”That is something Ben would never say.”
“You can’t hold that against him, Beth.”
She rolled over onto one elbow, so that her breasts were no longer crushed beneath her.
“Do me a favor will you?” she asked.
“What’s that?”
“Don’t defend my husband to me while we’re in bed together.”
He sat up.
“I told you this was a bad idea,” he said.
“Wait—”
He stood up, grabbed his pants.
“I think you better go back to your family,” he told her.
“They’re going to be looking for you.”
“But Clint—”
“Come on,” he said, sitting on the bed to pull on his boots. “I have to go and do something.”
“A-all right,” she said. She got off the bed and put her dress back on.
“What’s so important?”
He didn’t have anything to do, exactly, but he wanted her to go.
“I have to get ready to leave tomorrow.”
“The word around town is that you’re workin' for Vance Restin.”
“That’s the word?” he asked. “I’m doin’ a job for him, under duress. That is not working for him.”
“Taking his daughter to California?”
He stared at her.
“That’s what they’re saying around town?”
“You better watch out for Terry Restin, Clint,” Beth warned.
Now he really did have something he had to do—find out who put the word out about him and Terry Restin.
“You’d better get home, Beth—” he said, moving to get off the bed, but she stopped him, using surprising strength to push him down on his back.
“Hey!” he said.
“Not so fast,” she said. “Since you’re gonna be out on the trail with that pretty young girl, I better give you somethin’ to remember me by.”
“What the—”
She reached down to grasp his cock, began stroking it with one hand, while fondling his balls with the other.
“Beth—”
“Hush,” she said. “Ben doesn’t let me do this to him.”
“Do wha—oh.”
She slid down between his legs and began to lick his penis, from the base to the head, over and over again, until he was good and wet, and then she opened her mouth and took him inside.
“Jesus …” he said, lifting his butt off the bed.
She began to suck him, sliding her lips up and down the length of him, wetting him even more, so that her saliva ran down onto his testicles and thighs.
She sucked him avidly, moaning and even growling, inflaming him so much that it wasn’t long before he was exploding into the hot depths of her mouth …