Collide & Burn by Claudy Conn Page B

body, and then, just as I was about to go off, he withdrew himself and said, “Oh no, not yet, baby, not yet.”
    He turned me over, removed the condom, and put his cock to my lips. I took it deep into my mouth and sucked hard, slid my mouth over him in a dance that had him calling my name, and when he went off, I did what I have never done before—I swallowed.
    His entire body jerked with pleasure, and I smiled up at him.
    He touched my face and said, “Charlie … what are you doing to me , Charlie? I have never been so completely attached to anyone ever in my life. People in my life … leave. I understand the leaving. It’s this … you and me … that has me going nuts.”
    He collapsed next to me, took me into his arms, and pulled me on top of him. His voice was feral as he said, “I can’t get enough of you. So lick me, baby, lick my cock back into shape and then climb on for a rodeo ride.”
    I laughed. “Don’t you need some rest?”
    “ Apparently not  … do it, baby … lick it … taste us  …”
    I did what he asked, and holy good gosh, his cock stood at attention and I did just what he wanted—I climbed on, and he gave me a rodeo !
     

 
     
    ~ Nine ~
     
    WADE’S HEAD STABLE manager, Jimmy Rickles, was an amazing man who had a way with even the toughest horses. He was an older gent who had the patience to do what he had to do to get his job done. He was also good with the boarders. Wade liked him a lot. So did I.
    Jimmy came around the bend that led to the back riding ring and nodded, his full head of white hair blowing in the breeze as we walked by him, hand in hand. It was Saturday morning, and the boarders would be arriving soon. Saturday was always a busy day.
    It was still early—only eight o’clock—and the barn wouldn’t start buzzing until after ten. So we walked the grounds, and Wade described where he was going to put the indoor riding ring and some of the other plans he had for ‘progress’ at Norcross Stables.
    Laughing and joking with him, I was almost oblivious to everything else until he suddenly went very still and cursed under his breath.
    I looked up and saw that Gloria’s silver car was headed our way.
    “Let’s duck her,” he said. “Let’s go back to your place, get in the jeep, and hit the road.”
    I laughed. “That’s mean, and besides that, she might have some important papers — ”
    He cut me off. “No, Gloria has only one thing in mind.” He sighed. “I don’t want to have to go to her boss, but lately she can’t seem to follow my rules. She has orders not to ‘drop in’ on me without calling.”
    Curious, maybe jealous even, I asked, “Were you lovers?”
    He snorted. “I know you find it hard to believe, but I don’t do the ‘lovers’ thing. Even when I took a woman to bed more than once, and I have, I never let her get the wrong idea about what it meant.”
    “Did you take Gloria to bed  … more than once?”
    “Not to bed. She  … let’s say, pleasured me in my office once, and then another time I took her on my office couch. After that I told her that there was no ‘us’ as she seemed to think there could be.”
    I felt a moment of sadness. “Does she love you?”
    “She wants me, my wealth, and my position in the society she thinks she should be a part of—a society, by the way, that I want little to do with.”
    “Why then does she still try?”
    “Gloria is persistent.” He sighed. “I can’t tell you how many times I have told her that there was no ‘us’. I explained that we work together and I didn’t like the complications involved with that.”
    “And?”
    “And that was two months ago, and she hasn’t gotten the idea yet that I meant it. She seems to think we had some incredible sex, which was  … really just sex .”
    He stopped me, held my shoulders, and said, “Charlie, nothing was ever incredible or special till you . Do you get that?”
    “I hope so. Do you? ”
    He laughed and said,