anyone. I wanted a place of my own. I think deep
down I always thought I would come back for you.
Then Daddy went and had a heart attack. I had no idea
the spread had gotten so big with no one but Cam to
look after things. Cam offered me half of the place to
come home. Hell, I would’ve come anyway, but now I
have something more to offer. Somewhere to build a
home. There ain’t another woman in the world I’d
want to build a home with. Just you. Only you.”
Tex just being here, coming home for good was
more than anything she’d ever managed to dream up
herself. It was like she had conjured him up with her
hopes and dreams. The things he was saying to
her…never in a million years would she have even
thought to imagine him saying what he was telling her.
It was so much more than she’d ever hoped for. Even if
she hadn’t been in love with Tex since forever, she
would’ve surely fallen for him after she’d heard what
he had to say.
“I’m so glad I didn’t call Sheriff Stone when I
saw the rose trail.” Alexandria sighed, laying her head
on his broad shoulder. Everything had been just so
perfect. She’d come close to ruining it all.
She felt a shudder run through Tex, which made
her giggle. She’d once witnessed Tex take down a half-
mad bull without flinching. He’d jumped the fence and
roped, hog tying the beast so that Doc Howard could
treat it. Here he was shivering at the thought of his
oldest brother’s best friend.
“Hey, don’t laugh.” Tex tickled her sides, making
her laugh even harder. “Zedidiah Stone is one strange
man. He freaked me out even when he was a kid.”
Her sentiments exactly. Moving to straddle his
lap, Alexandria couldn’t resist teasing just a little
more. “Big, bad ole Cowboy Tex isn’t scared of a man
named Zedidiah, is he?”
“Sugar, the only thing that scares me is the
thought of never seeing you again.”
That comment drained all the laughter right out
of her. Her eyes widened, riveted to the sincerity and
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undisguised love that radiated in his. Her fingers crept
up his silky sandy brown hair, her head dipping to
place a soft, sincere kiss against his lips. She had
meant to pull back, to end with only a little peck of a
kiss, but their lips clung as soon as they met, her
mouth opening obediently for his invasion. This kiss
was less urgent than their first, but twice as heated.
Tex tangled his hands in her hair, holding her to
him as he lifted his hips a little off the ground.
“Alex, sugar, slide my jeans down just a little,”
he whispered against her lips. “I have to have you. I
can’t wait.”
And she didn’t want him to. Her hands shook a
little as she did as he asked, fumbling with the button
and zipper before managing to get the pants open. She
had moved away from that devastating kiss to
carefully extract his cock from his jeans and tug them
down a little. Her breath caught and held at her first
sight of the hard, hot organ. She’d known Tex was well
endowed, but that thing was ridiculously large. It was
damn near as thick as her wrist, long and proud and
by all appearances, very, very ready.
She licked her lips, wondering what he would
taste like. Her finger ran lightly against the reddish
head, swirling a drop of pre-cum round and round,
loving the way Tex hissed, his hips jerking upward into
her caress. She was just about to lean down to give it a
little kiss when Tex hauled her against him.
“Uh-uh, little lady,” he admonished, his voice
sounding all rough and growly. “No way I would last
through that.”
“But you got a taste,” she pouted back. “Why
can’t I?”
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“Because I need you too much.” He showed her
what he meant by pushing the head of his shaft against
her opening. She could feel herself expanding, opening
for him. “Damn, sugar, you’re tight,” Tex grunted out,
working his pelvis under her to ease his way inside. He
gripped her little