“Mattie, darling, if you keep touching me with such tenderness, my cock is going to get rock hard again.”
She giggled. “That’s why I think I can help you with that savage beast.”
“What about you, Mattie? What was your family like?”
A sigh came from her. “When my real father was alive, it was wonderful. After he died, when I was twelve, mother was heartbroken. Two years later, she met Edward and he was charming. Finally, she agreed to marry him. After the ceremony when he and Frank moved in, the nightmare began. Edward thought my mother was in control of the money, but my father had put it in a trust. Quickly, he went through mother’s money and then he wanted mine. That’s when I realized I would not be safe from Frank.”
“Why did you stay?”
“About the time I understood what was going on, mother became sick. I couldn’t abandon her. If she had not insisted I go with you, I would still be there. And now I fear that Edward and Frank will come after me.”
“They may try, but don’t worry, lass, no one harms what’s mine,” Jesse said.
“Only if they want to die will they even try.”
She ran her hands down both of their cheeks. “Because of the two of you, I’ve been happier than I have been in years. Thank you. My only regret is not knowing if mother is all right.”
“Understandable,” Alex said. “But she warned us. She made us promise to take care of you and we will. She loved you enough to let you go when she knew it was for your safety.”
“And we’re glad she did,” Jesse said. “But lying here beside you has gotten my cock all hard again.”
He reached up and took her hand and laid it on his cock. “Lass, make me come.”
11
JESSE
* * *
The next morning, Jesse awoke to the sound of pounding on their front door. Before dawn, he knew immediately something was wrong.
Jumping out of bed, he pulled his pants and a nearby shirt on.
“What’s wrong?” Alex asked sitting up groggily.
They had fucked until the wee hours of the morning. Their bride had not even stirred. Even now gazing down at her all sprawled naked on their bed, he wanted to crawl back in and awaken her to the feel of his cock thrusting in her sweet pussy.
“Someone’s at the door,” he said.
“Shit, it could be Frank and Edward,” Alex warned, jumping out of the bed and grabbing his pants.
Jesse hurried out of the room. “Coming.”
As he ran down the stairs, he realized the sun had just peeked over the eastern sky and he wondered what was wrong so early in the morning.
Before Jesse opened the door, he glanced out the window and stared, stunned. “Son of a bitch.”
He yanked open the door. Ian and Whitmore stood before him surrounded by men.
“Good morning, Jesse.”
“What happened?”
“Don’t rightly know. We woke up and found this in your yard this morning. Thought you needed to know.”
Three dead bovines littered the area. Flies buzzed around their stiff bodies in the morning warm air. All had been shot with a bow and arrow. Quieter than a gun, but how had he not heard the cows being moved into the yard.
“We also found this on one of the bodies,” Ian said.