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  Brad raised an eyebrow at the sight of Nicole on the horse in front of Alex. His gaze rested on her lap, where her dress hiked up her thighs, barely covering her. “Why, ‘Cole. What brings you out here?” he asked as his gaze traveled up to her generous cleavage before meeting her eyes.

  “Thought I’d come and visit you, good lookin’,” Nicole said with a sugary sweet note in her voice.

  Alex scowled and Brad grinned as he hooked his thumbs in his belt loops. “Never thought I’d get so lucky.”

  Nicole laughed.

  Alex’s scowl deepened.

  Brad had a reputation with the women around the valley and Alex was none too pleased to see the man’s obvious interest in Nicole.

  Alex dismounted his gelding. “Brush down Sport,” Alex ordered as he put his hands at Nicole’s waist to help her down.

  Brad raised an eyebrow. “Sure thing.” He caught Sport’s reins and gave a good-natured grin. “I can see you’ve got your hands full.”

  Nicole braced her hands on Alex’s shoulders as he slid her off the horse. Her little dress was hiked up so high that he caught sight of the thin strip of her blue thong covering her pussy, and this time he couldn’t help a low groan from escaping.

  When her heels hit the ground, Nicole tried to push away from Alex, but his grip was firm. The bastard had a possessive look in his eyes that made her panties wet, but she wasn’t about to let him get to her.

  Of course she wasn’t.

  Brad chuckled and led the bay gelding away. Alex slid his hands from her waist to her ass and squeezed. “Come on in the house and get dry.”

  Her hands were still braced on his shoulders, and this time she succeeded in pushing him away. He let go and she stumbled back. Just before she fell, he caught her by her wrist and brought her close to him again. “Careful, hon.” His voice was low and sensual, making her nipples tighten. “Wouldn’t want you to fall on that pretty ass of yours.”

  “You can just go to hell, Alex.” Nicole jerked her hand away. “I need a phone to call Trace so she can pick me up.”

  He pivoted on his booted heel and headed out the barn door, back into the rain. He paused just outside the doorway, rain dripping from the brim of his Stetson. “Are you planning on staying out with the horses, or coming into the house?”

  Nicole would have stomped after him if she hadn’t been wearing those damn shoes. Instead, the spiked heels sank into the straw and dirt floor of the barn, and her ankles wobbled as she followed him out and into the pouring rain. She sighed and glanced at her purse. Even it was drenched.

  Lightning flashed and thunder followed, closer now, and rain pounded her and Alex. She left the barn smells of hay, sweet oats, and manure for the scent of summer rain as she trailed after Alex the best she could in those fucking heels.

  While she followed him, she couldn’t help but notice how fine his tight ass looked in his Wranglers. The rain had molded his denim shirt to his hard-packed body. Broad shoulders and a muscular back to dig her nails into, tapered hips to wrap her thighs around…

  Mentally, Nicole shook herself. Shit. No way was she fucking Alex Grand. No matter how badly her body wanted to at that moment. Hell, in high school he’d punched her prom date, dumped her best friend, and she and Alex had always argued about everything as long as she could remember. Nothing doing.

  When they reached the front porch, Alex held the door open for her. Despite the fact he was as soaked as she was, heat emanated from him as she walked past him and into the ranch house.

  The door shut behind them with a bang. She didn’t have time to do much looking around. Before she had the chance to take a breath, Alex whirled her around and practically slammed her up against the wall.

  Chapter Three

  Alex braced his hands to either side of Nicole’s head, pinning her up against the wall beneath his hard male body. She gasped at the force he’d used. He hadn’t hurt her at all, just caught her by surprise.

  “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” she managed to say despite the fact that his dominance and the desire in his eyes made her pussy wet.

  “What I should have done a long time ago.” Alex pressed his full length tighter against Nicole, her back flat against the wall. “I’m going to fuck you, Nicole Landford, like you’ve never been fucked before.”

  Her belly pitched and she dropped her purse. Oh, God, how that statement turned her on.

  “Like hell,” she said, ignoring the part of her that wanted to jump him. Her voice was hoarse and unconvincing even to herself.

  “I’m through with talking.” His mouth came down hard on hers in a punishing kiss that took her breath away. She braced her hands against his chest and pushed, struggling to get free, but she really didn’t want him to stop. She couldn’t have stopped if she’d truly tried.

  His Stetson bumped the top of her head and it fell away with a soft thud on the floor. He bit her lower lip, just hard enough to make her groan with desire, long enough for him to thrust his tongue into her mouth. His stubble chafed her skin, burning her, branding her with his mark.

  The kiss was deep and fierce, unlike anything she’d experienced before. His erection pressed against her belly through her thin dress. She could feel every masculine inch of him, as if she was wearing nothing at all.

  She couldn’t help it. She kissed him as hard and fiercely as he was kissing her, with all the pent-up desire that had been building like the thunderstorm since he first tripped her trigger. Damn but she wanted the man. Maybe she’d always wanted him.

  What was she thinking?

  Their kiss grew unbelievably wilder yet, and Nicole’s mind literally spun. His hands moved from the wall, down her arms, his touch making goose bumps prickle her skin. He palmed her ass while he thrust his hips against hers.

  Nicole dug her nails into his powerful shoulders. His denim shirt rubbed against her sensitive nipples, and she longed to be free of the constraining material.

  As if reading her thoughts, Alex tore his mouth from hers. His breathing was heavy and his normally hazel eyes burned a deep and passionate green.

  He released her ass and brought his hands up to her breasts. With a movement so fast it caught her by surprise, he gripped the flimsy material and tore the neckline until her large breasts spilled out.

  “My dress!” Despite her shock and the fact he’d ruined her favorite outfit, she gripped his shoulders tighter and arched her back, raising her chest up higher, offering herself to him.

  “I’ll buy you a new one.” Her breasts overflowed his large palms and he lowered his head. “Hell, I’ll buy you two.”

  And then his tongue flicked over one nipple and Nicole nearly screamed from the wild sensations that zipped from her breasts to her belly to her pussy.

  He squeezed and fondled her breasts while moving his hot mouth from one nipple to the other. Nicole slid her hands into his blond hair and hung on for dear life. If he didn’t have her pressed up against the wall, she would have slid down to the floor, her knees were so weak.

  Alex groaned and brought his mouth back to hers and his solid chest and denim shirt rubbed against her nipples. He bit at her lower lip and she nipped back at his, their kisses wild and passionate.

  “I always knew it would be like this.” He kissed a wet trail to her ear. “You and I making fire together.”

  “Oil and water,” she said with a gasp.

  He gave a low chuckle. “Oil burns on water, hon.”

  She had to give him that.

  While he traced her jaw with his mouth, Nicole’s fingers slid from his shoulders, down his hard chest to his taut abs, and to his belt buckle. It didn’t take her long to undo it and the top button of his Wrangler jeans. She unzipped them, yanked down his briefs, and his hot erection filled her hand.

  “Damn you’re big.” Nicole stroked his cock and he groaned. She couldn’t believe it when she said, “I can’t wait for you to fuck me.” But then a part of her told her she’d been denying what she real
ly wanted all along.

  Alex brought his hands down to the hem of her wet mini-dress and yanked it up so that the material was around her waist. “Woman, I’m going to fuck you so hard you’ll be begging me for mercy.”

  Nicole groaned as his hands found the sides of her thong. “Never.”

  “We’ll see about that.” Alex shredded her thong in one sharp movement so that all she had on was her torn dress around her waist and her spiked heels.

  Alex grabbed her thighs and hiked her up so that her legs were wrapped around his waist and her breasts were at his mouth. She clung to his shoulders and tilted her head, her long wet hair trailing across her back.

  He rubbed the head of his cock against her pussy and she moaned. “Fuck me. Now,” she demanded.

  He spun her around. Before she knew it, he’d taken her down to the floor so that his jean-clad hips were between her thighs and she was flat on her back on a rough braided rug. She looked up at him and shivered at the intense desire in those sexy hazel-green eyes of his.

  Mesmerized, she watched him as he rose up and ripped apart the snaps of his western shirt and flung it aside, where it landed on a lampshade. He pulled off his belt and threw it over his shoulder. The buckle clattered over the wooden floor. He stood and stripped off his jeans and briefs, and all she could do was stare at that lean muscular body, conditioned from years of ranching, and early on when he competed in calf-roping on the rodeo circuit. He was one fine man.

  “Damn you’re beautiful, Nicole.” He knelt at her feet and his gaze met hers. “I always knew one day you’d come to me.”

  Heat rose to her cheeks at his statement that she was beautiful—Alex Grand may be a lot of things, but he wasn’t a liar. She had confidence in herself, knew what she wanted, and went after it, but she’d never thought of herself as beautiful.

  Nicole scraped her long nails down his chest. “You’re not so bad yourself, you arrogant sonofabitch.”

  Alex gave her that sexy breath-stealing grin of his while he slipped off one of her shoes. He tossed it over his shoulder and she heard a crash and the sound of breaking glass. Alex never paused. He yanked off her other heel and disposed of it the same way, and something hit the floor with a loud thump. He reached for her then, grasped her dress and ripped it completely away from her body, flinging the ruined material aside.

  By the time Alex settled between her thighs, she was ready to scream. She could smell her own juices mixing with his scent of sun, wind and intoxicating male musk.

  Naked body to naked body, Alex braced himself so that part of his weight was against her, then brought his face close to hers.

  “Kiss me,” he demanded.

  Nicole raised her head and fastened her lips to his, thrusting her tongue into his mouth. He pressed against her mound and she could feel his cock and balls rubbing her pussy. She wrapped her legs around his thighs, begging him with her body to take her now.

  Instead he rolled onto his back, bringing her with him so that she was on top. He filled his palms with her breasts and she leaned back, her drying hair caressing her bare skin, almost to her waist. She moved her pussy along his cock, rubbing her clit and building up the fire already burning inside her.

  Nicole brought her face to his and kissed him, her hair dropping over her shoulder to hang like a curtain around their faces. Their mouths mated and their kiss was wild and crazy, and she could feel her head spinning more than ever.

  Alex moved in an athletic movement that must have come from years of calf-roping. One second she was on top of him, and in the next she was beneath him again, his face above hers.

  He crushed his mouth to Nicole’s, dying to get inside her. He wanted her so bad he could barely rein himself in. But he wanted this first time to rock Nicole’s world. If he could hold back just a little longer…

  Nicole moaned and kissed him back just as fiercely. She grabbed for his cock but he caught her hand, holding her back.

  Her chest rose and fell beneath him. Her lips were red from his kisses and her skin pink wherever his mouth and hands had been.

  “What are you waiting for, cowboy?” She squirmed beneath him.

  “Are you protected?” he asked.

  Nicole nodded. “Definitely. Now, come on.”

  “You want it hard, hon?” He pumped his hips against hers. “I think you do.”

  “Real hard.” Her voice was low, husky. “Let’s see what you’ve got.”

  Alex hooked his arms under her knees, spreading her wide open to him. He placed his erection at the entrance to her pussy, his gaze focused on her beautiful blue-green eyes. With one swift thrust, he buried his cock deep within her core.

  Nicole cried out and arched her back. Oh, God, he felt good inside her. He moved her legs so that her ankles were around his neck and he began thrusting hard and fast, and oh-so deep.

  “Damn, Alex.” She reached up and dug her nails into his back. “Yeah, just like that, cowboy. Ride me.”

  He pumped harder into her, the sound of flesh smacking flesh filling the room. She looked between them and watched him moving in and out of her core. His cock glistened with her juices, and her scent mixed with his male musk was intoxicating. She loved the smell of their sex, loved the feel of him pounding into her so hard it made her breasts bounce and her head bump against a piece of furniture.

  Rain pounded on the roof as Alex pounded into her. Thunder boomed, or maybe it was the blood rushing in her ears.

  Her climax built up inside her, so wild that her vision blurred and she could barely focus on Alex’s face above hers. He was gritting his teeth, sweat dripping down the side of his face. His balls slapped her pussy and he banged against her with the force of his powerful thrusts. She’d never been fucked so hard or so good.

  Nicole grew dizzy with the intensity of her need to come and she thrashed beneath Alex. She raked her nails across his back and bit her lip so hard she tasted blood. Everything was spiraling out of control. Closer and closer and closer—

  “Fuck me harder.” Nicole dug her nails deeper into Alex’s back. “I’m gonna come.”

  He rammed into her so hard, her hips rose high off the floor.

  All hell broke loose inside her. Nicole screamed as the most powerful orgasm she’d ever had slammed into her.

  Sparks flared behind her eyes. She screamed again as a second orgasm rocked her body right after the first. It felt like the Fourth of July, the way fireworks were exploding in her head.

  Alex thrust into her several times more, drawing out her multiple orgasms, and then he came with a shout. His thick cock pulsed inside her pussy, his hot semen flooding her core.

  Nicole’s body continued to tremble with aftershocks as she stared up at Alex. His breathing was heavy and sweat dripped from his face onto her skin.

  “Now that I’ve had you,” he said in his deep, sexy voice, in between heavy breaths, “I’m not about to let you go.”

  Chapter Four

  “Nothing doing.” Nicole pushed at his chest at the same time she shook her head. “Sex doesn’t make me yours any more than I’ve ever been. Which is not at all.”

  Alex grinned down at the woman he’d wanted for so damn long. Since elementary school when he’d stolen her dancing doll and strung the thing up by its crown. Nicole had chased him around the schoolyard for that bit of mischief. He’d been chasing after her ever since. He just hadn’t been able to catch her until now.

  She was so damn full of fire he knew she’d be work to convince, but he had no doubt he would. He wasn’t normally a patient man, but with Nicole he’d just been biding his time. At one point over the years, when he’d thought he didn’t have a chance in hell with Nicole, he’d thought Dee MacLeod would help him forget the spunky blonde, but it wasn’t really what either of them had wanted. He was definitely glad things had turned out the way they had.

  “Come on now. Get off.” Nicole pushed at his chest, harder this time.

  He rolled onto his back, taking her with him, keeping h
is cock deep within her core. She cried out, her eyes wide with surprise. His cock returned to its full hardness and he thrust his hips.

  “Damn, Alex,” Nicole groaned at the feel of his erection within her pussy. She braced her hands on his shoulders, his skin slick with sweat beneath her palms.

  He thrust his hips again. “Ready to be fucked?”

  “Like they say¸” she murmured as she rocked against him. “Save a horse. Ride a cowboy.”

  Alex chuckled and gripped her hips tighter, keeping his cock inside her. “Who says?”

  “Catie Savage—” Nicole’s eyes went from heavy-lidded to wide open. “Crap. I’ve got to call Trace and Catie. They’ll be worried.”

  For the first time since coming into Alex’s home, she glanced around at the masculine interior. Leather and wood furniture, bookcases, and a wide-screen TV occupied the room. It smelled of leather and wood, and a musky male scent. On the bookcase were Alex’s football trophies from high school and college, along with countless rodeo awards.

  And then there was the lamp, now shattered on the wooden floor, broken during their wild lovemaking, one of her high heels sitting in the middle of the shards. The remnants of her dress draped over the back of a chair, her other shoe perched on the coffee table, and Alex’s boots beside the table leg. Right in front of her, his underwear hung over the telephone.

  Nicole laughed and tossed the underwear aside, grabbing the portable phone. “Some decorating job, Grand.”

  His gaze followed hers and he grinned. “I think I’ll keep it this way. Has a woman’s touch.”

  She rolled her eyes then dialed the number to the MacLeod Ranch, where Trace was visiting her sister Dee. Ringing started on the other end at the same time Alex began fondling her nipples, his cock still inside her pussy.

  Nicole bit back a moan as her best friend answered the phone, “MacLeod Ranch.”

  “Heya, Trace.” It was all Nicole could do to maintain her concentration as Alex pinched her nipples. “Sorry I didn’t make it.”