StrongArmsoftheLaw (9 page)

And as she reached down to part her sopping-wet folds, she
watched him inhale her musk, then throw his packets on the shiny oak table,
peel one back and roll a rubber on in one swift stroke. Then he put that hand
around one of her thighs and nudged the entrance to her core with the blunt
head of his hot shaft.

“Don’t tease me,” she pleaded in a thread of sound.

“No, ma’am,” he vowed as he slipped ever so solidly into her
tight core. “Oh, well now,” he gulped, pausing to shut his eyes a moment and
then look at her like he would never let her out of his sight, “that is the
sweetest second of my last three weeks. Hang on, darlin’, ’til we get a whole
lot more.”

She braced herself as he drove his cock right up to her
limit. She felt him in her cunt, in her bones, her skin, to the tips of her
fingers and the roots of her hair. And she hung on as he plunged inside her in
a fierce rhythm that proved to her without a doubt that no other man would do
for her. She loved this one. This lawman. With the strong arms and the big heart.
And if she was lucky enough to charm him into her arms, could she lure him into
a love affair more permanent than the witness protection he’d signed up for?

Perspiration dripping from his brow, he pounded into her
with a ferocity she hadn’t known he possessed. But she didn’t care, she loved
him for it. Needed him, and so she went with him, his desperate, wild thrusts
that shook her, hollowed her, filled her to the brim. As she quaked inside and
cried with the beauty of her orgasm, he quickly followed with his own. He shook
and stopped, still filling her, then sank to cover her. His lips to her ear,
his words dear and devoted ones that told her he never intended to leave her,
that she was now forever his.

He rose up, his gaze delving into hers as he brushed her
hair from her cheeks. “I mean it. You are mine.”

She combed his hair back from his brow. “Same goes here,
Ranger. I want you for more than today.”

“Can you move to Texas?”

She let her answer fill her eyes. “I can. But where will I
live?”

“I hope you’ll live with your husband.”

Her heart turned over and her lips curved in delight. “I
don’t have one,” she whispered.

“I can get one for you.”

Smiling at his tender beseeching look, she rubbed her nose
on his. “Do you think I’d like your choice?”

He circled his cock inside her. “I think you would. After
all, he loves you.”

Tears burned her eyes. “Oh, my. Does he really?”

He thrust inside her to prove his point. “Like the earth
needs rain and flowers love sun. And birds need air. I love you, Skye.”

She wrapped her arms around his neck and squeezed him tight.
“I adore you, Rex. I need you every day, every hour. You’ll be so tired of me
hanging on you,” she whispered as she rolled her hips up against his. “So tired
of me showing you how I want you that you’ll need to go to work to escape me.”

Laughter rumbled in his chest and she felt it flow through
her with a joy that had them both chuckling.

She cupped his jaw and kissed his lips. “When? How long does
it take to get a marriage license in Texas?”

He lifted one dark brow at her. “In a hurry? Again, ma’am?”

She squeezed his cock with her strong pussy. “You bet I am.”

“Well,” he said and put on an innocent look. “If you’re
really in a rush?”

She cuffed in his good shoulder. “Tell me you’re not!”

He snorted. “Three-day wait after we get the license.”

“Okay.” She nodded, eager as a puppy. “Not too long.”

“Shall I take you down the hall and over to the marriage
license department?”

“It’s here?” she asked, but in the next second, felt like an
idiot when she knew this was a state courthouse—and of course, the records
bureau would be nowhere else.

He shifted inside her, his flagging cock still hard enough
to grab her attention. “Unless you want to think about it more.” He lifted her
chin. “I love you, baby, and I want you in my bed and in my life like the devil
needs sinners. But if you’re not sure, if what we had was just one of those
things, then—”

She kissed him then, big, hard and long. “I want you, Rex
Martinez. For now and all our lives. Zip up, honey. You are about to become an
engaged man and I don’t want any other women getting a glimpse of the goods and
getting any ideas about my Texas Ranger.”

He grabbed her arms and helped her stand. “Better straighten
out that straitlaced business suit then, ma’am. Don’t want any other man
thinking he can have my woman. Ever.”

“No one ever will,” she told him as she gave him a quick
peck.

“And from now on, you are never going anywhere without me.”

“My own private long arm of the law,” she said with a
satisfaction that had her scurrying to make herself presentable to buy her
first and only marriage license.

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