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  “It’s Ginna, hit me,” she said and put the small pot on the stove.

  “Oh my God, I heard about your field and then I heard about Luke’s field. The word going around town is that you hired some ex-mercenary to fire bomb him tonight.” The excited chatter came from her friend Sophie. “I go away for a vaykay and come home to hear that you have some big hunk living with you who beat up Luke and those other guys and now knows people who care fire bomb fields!”

  “Sophie, do you want to hear the real story or not?” Ginna laughed. “Wow the gossip is in town already about my fire and Luke had one, too. Jeez this has to be a world record for gossip.”

  “Un-huh, whatever, girl you better be dishing. Who is this sexy piece of man who is living with you?” Sophie asked

  Ginna opened the cabinet to take out the tin of chocolate and the fat campfire marshmallows. Three in her big mug would make the hot chocolate super creamy. “His name is Kalv, and he stopped Luke and those guy from assaulting me.”

  “Holy shit, and I bet the cowardly sheriff did nothing,” Sophie raged. “I wished he would grow some balls and a brain.”

  “Would you believe he kinda did?” Ginna went on to relate the story, leaving out the part where Kalv changed into a dragon at least twice. By the time she related everything that had been going on, Sophie was practically speechless.

  “You see, stuff like this never happens when I’m home,” she cried out. “I’m coming over in a day or so to meet this guy. Oh, and I heard that Jessica is threatening to beat your ass for giving Luke grief.”

  Ginna laughed. “I would love to see her try it, I actually would. She is so clueless that Luke has more than one bed buddy in this town besides her.”

  Sophie snorted. “You know her type, so don’t even bother about that one. Anyway, I’m off to catch up on e-mails. I’ll drop by around noon or so when I do come over, and led a hand with anything you need.”

  “You’re just coming by to see Kalv,” Ginna teased.

  “That too. The way Sally at the diner said he is gorgeous and it makes one have to see for themselves,” Sophie replied. “Nighty night!”

  “Sweet dreams, Sophie.” Ginna laughed and pressed the disconnect button.

  With her hot drink in her hand, she went back to the living room. Ginna sat on the sofa and tucked her feet beneath her before using the remote to turn the TV on. She’d given Kalv the opening he needed to know she wanted him. The next move had to be his, and she hoped that he didn’t wait too long. She drank her hot chocolate and watched the news. It seemed they were on the same wavelength, because he came downstairs wearing only gray sweat pants, barefoot, and just looking at his bare chest made her mouth go dry.

  “I thought you’d be in bed,” Ginna said, amazed that she could speak.

  He stood and blocked the television. “I’m not sleepy.”

  “Do you want some hot chocolate? I could make you some,” she suggested as she put her cup down. She made a move to stand, but Kalv was on his knees in front of her in an instant, pressing her knees apart and pulling her close.

  “That is the furthest thing from my mind.” His eyes searched her face. “You are so exquisitely beautiful, brave, and sexy. I want to make you mine.”

  “It’s about time,” she said.

  He chuckled and swooped in for a kiss. With the touch of his lips, Ginna was lost. She knew what she wanted and took pleasure in the way his lips roamed over hers. She parted them willingly under his demanding onslaught. Ginna moaned when he took the invitation and buried his tongue deep into her mouth.

  Her eyes never left Kalv while he undressed her with sure fingers. He pulled the soft fleece down her legs, taking her panties with it, and she whipped the pajama top over her head. He stood and pushed the sweats down his muscled, toned legs. Ginna watched his cock spring from the confines, rigid and hard, as he kicked his pants away. Oh hell yeah, she thought and felt her pussy clench in anticipation. He was bigger than any man she’d ever seen, and she could hardly wait to feel him inside her.

  “Let me taste you,” she said, and reached out to grab his hips to bring him closer.

  The tip of his engorged cock beckoned her, and she kissed the tip gently before slowly taking it into her mouth. There was so much to him she couldn’t take him all. She wrapped her lips around what she could and Ginna loved with him her mouth. She could smell the sexy musk of him, feel the muscles of his ass clench beneath her hands. She wanted more, tried to take him deeper into her mouth and sucked his cock with more fervor.

  “Oh God,” he gasped.

  He pushed himself deeper into her mouth before he pulled away roughly and sank to his knees. Roughly bringing her down on the floor within to cover his body. His kiss was even more passionate than before, filling her with a fierce need while his hands roamed her nakedness. She’d never known heat like this before. He caused a primal urge to rise from places she’d never known she had, she wanted to do every dirty thing she’d ever read about with him. Ginna’s legs were on either side of his body and she rubbed against him, loving how his cock was pressed against the slick folds of her pussy as she moved. She felt his leg move, and heard the sound of her coffee table being pushed out of the way with such force that it hit the wall with a thud. On carpet it should be difficult for anyone to make the piece of furniture careen across the room, but not Kalv, who had dragon blood running through his veins.

  Kalv lifted her, as if she weighed nothing, until she straddled his head. What is he…oh God! She felt the heat of his mouth on the folds of her pussy before he lowered her onto his mouth. Ginna couldn’t help but scream as she felt him suck on her clit before his tongue penetrated her core. Her hips jerked as the pleasurable sensation assaulted her. While he licked and sucked at her snatch, he used his thumb to rub her clit. Ginna undulated her hips against his tongue as he used it to fuck her. She reached her peak while she ground against his mouth, and screamed his name as she came. He gave a guttural moan as her juice coated his lips. While she was still trying to catch her breath he turned her around until she was facing his legs.

  “Take my cock in your mouth again,” he ordered gruffly.

  Ginna took the thick length of him in her hands and slid her lips once more around his shaft. Kalv lifted his hips and pushed himself deeper into her mouth. Caught in a sexy sixty-nine with him was a new experience. Ginna stroked him as she sucked his cock. She moaned when she felt his finger trail between the cheeks of her ass before he spread the lips of her pussy apart with his fingers. She shuddered when she felt him dip his finger inside her, burying it deep and moving it slowly in and out. She imitated his movements with her lips on his cock, wringing a groan from him. Kalv used two fingers on her now, pressing them deeper and harder each time until she couldn’t think. Ginna had to stop sucking him and let the sensations assault her.

  “I’m coming, oh, Kalv, harder please!” she begged.

  He did as she asked, fucking her hard with his fingers until she screamed his name and gave up her body’s bounty when he pulled her against his mouth. Kalv sat up, taking her with him until his back was against the sofa and she was once again straddling his lap. He slipped his hand between them and aligned his rod to the entrance of her snatch. Kalv gave a long slow groan as his cock sank into her. Ginna bit her lip to from screaming as she felt him stretching the walls of her pussy. He was so big that he moved slowly, letting her body get accustomed to his thickness.

  Ginna pressed her face against his neck, biting the skin there as she rode him. Soon her body was accepting him easily. She lifted her head to see the emerald green of his eyes darken to a deeper color as passion took over. The fierce look of intensity and primal need etched on his face made her breathless. Kalv pulled her against him roughly, and her head fell back as the sensation of having deep inside her increased. His hands were on her ass, squeezing and massaging as she moved. Kalv pulled her hard against him every time he pistoned her hips onto his cock. Each thrust sent her spiraling higher an
d higher into the swirling mass of pleasure. His head nuzzled against her breast and his lips sought out her nipple. He laved it before pulling it into his mouth.

  Ginna purred in her throat, his actions making her body tingle. “Kalv, bite them. Oh yes, just like that!”

  “Come for me. I want to feel you come on my cock,” he groaned out against her chest before taking the nipple closest to his cheek between his lips.

  The euphoria of her impending orgasm heightened her senses. She could smell their sex in the air. He was driving her to the edge of reason, taking Ginna to the heights of pleasure she’d never felt before.

  He gripped her hair and forced her to look at him. “Now, let me see you come!”

  Ginna cried out his name as her body exploded in pleasurable shards that tore her apart from the inside out. She felt the first of his hot seed spill inside her as she shuddered in his arms with her head pressed against his shoulder. He pounded into her even as she felt him fill her, sending her into another blinding release. His harsh cry on completion made her shiver before he devoured her lips with a ravenous kiss. She didn’t know how long they sat there still joined intimately, and she didn’t care. She lifted her head and pushed a stray strand of hair and fell sexily over his left eye.

  “I’d move, but I think my legs are numb,” she teased.

  Kalv chuckled. “How about I carry you to bed, then I’ll go…”

  “Umm, did you think you were going to sleep alone after this?” Ginna asked and kissed him gently. “I like you…well more than like you actually, Kalv. Get used to it. So now you are going to share my bed, and let’s hold each other while we sleep.”

  She saw the confusion and terror of feeling anything in his eyes. She was pressed so close she felt the thumping of his heart as it sped up. He just nodded and lifted her into his arms and walked up the stairs, leaving their clothes strewn across the floor. In the master bathroom, they showered together and he still didn’t speak as she washed him and he did the same to her.

  “You don’t have to be scared of it,” she said before cupping his cheeks to look into his eyes. “I’m not expecting anything from you, Kalv. But you hurt. You don’t have to say it for me to know. Let me soothe you.”

  “I think I would like that,” he admitted.

  After drying themselves with thick towels, Ginna climbed into bed and pulled the blankets back, inviting him to come to bed with her. Kalv lay beside her, and she turned the light off as he stretched out beside her. He turned on his side and she cuddled up behind him, wrapped her arms around his torso, and pressed soft kisses against his back. She rested her head on his skin and closed her eyes, idly stroking his chest until she felt his body relax. One beat of his heart was spaced by minutes until she heard another. Not like humans, she thought sleepily when she counted up to two hundred before another beat echoed in his chest. She wished with all her might that he would be free of the ghost of the past, so he could love again. His heart could be hers and she would accept it wholeheartedly.

  Chapter Five

  Kalv liked the work on her farm. Doing the heavy labor that most people couldn’t get accustomed to helped him think. It was a rare breed of people who decided to take up this kind of lifestyle, being up before the sun and the strenuous labor of taking care of animals and planting crops. You had to love the smell of the earth, creating and building with your hands. There wasn’t any of the technology of this earth on Paladin. Maybe that was why he liked her farm so much. It reminded him of his home where everything worn, eaten, or sold was made and nurtured with care. He was a swirl of emotions. Sometimes he longed for his old home.

  He thought of Ginna, with her sweet and feisty personality, and how she held him at night. Even if they didn’t make love, she made sure to hold him close, and now his heart was a steady beat but still encased in the hard shell of magic. He feared her getting closer but found that in such a short time he couldn’t think about being without her Each night he stood in the hallway outside her door trying to make himself go to the other room to sleep. Yet his hand reached out and turned the knob to her door, and he walked inside into her waiting arms. Ginna was his addiction, a passionate force that consumed his being. The curves of her body pulled him to explore each one, the depth her core and her taste drove him to frenzy.

  Two days had passed since the fire, and now he worked to till the scorched part of the field into the rich soil. What was left of the burned grass would make the soil more fertile, yet as he worked the tractor his anger burned toward Luke Richfield. He would eventually hit the weasel of a man, he knew it and contented himself with only having to be patient until that happened.

  Even though there was a chill in the air as the fall tried to take hold of the area, Kalv had his shirt off while he drove the piece of machinery. He was a dragon at heart, and his blood tended to run hot quickly. He noticed a white car in the driveway behind Ginna’s truck and stopped the tractor. Curiosity had him walking back to the house, plus he needed something cool to drink. Ginna was sitting with a woman who was two heads taller than her and willowy. Her blond hair fell in curls around her face and neck. She had a quick smile and a bodacious laugh that had Kalv instantly liking her. She saw him coming around the house and nudged Ginna to get her attention.

  “This must be the hero of the hour. Kalv is it? I’m Sophie. Nice to meet you.” She held out her hand and stood. Her gaze roamed his body. “Are there more like you and where can I buy one?”

  “I’m an original sweetheart.” Kalv grinned.

  “Such a pity,” she murmured and shrugged. “Ah well, at least Ginna has you, so I’ll try not to hate her.”

  “Thanks a bunch,” Ginna said drily.

  “You’re welcome.” Sophie lifted her glass of sweet tea in a toast. “You have him to help keep Luke in place. I kinda feel bad because I wasn’t around when he came here trying shit with you. I would have broken him and those goons down.”

  Kalv laughed and poured himself a glass of their cool drink. “The two of you are like that cartoon with the feisty little girls who were superheroes.”

  Ginna coughed as her tea went down the wrong way. “You mean the Powerpuff Girls? Kalv, what have you been watching?”

  He defended himself. “I have a friend with two daughters. I got roped into watching it with them once.”

  “Uh-huh, sure.” Ginna gave Sophie a look and they both broke down laughing.

  Kalv sat down and they all were having a great conversation until they saw another car roaring up the driveway.

  “Well shit, here comes trouble,” Sophie said. “That’s Luke’s red convertible.”

  “He wouldn’t be dumb enough to come here would he?” Ginna gasped.

  “No, but she sure would,” Sophie replied.

  “Who is she?” Kalv asked curiously.

  “That is Jessica Davies, the bridesmaid at my thank-God-it-didn’t-happen wedding, who fucked Luke,” Ginna replied.

  The woman who stepped out the car had a scarf wrapped around her fiery hair and oversized sunglasses. Kalv knew this type of woman, trying to be expensively dressed and lording over those whom she thought were lesser. Anyone could see she was trying hard to play a role and failing at it miserably. She pulled a pink furry bag from the seat and stood, looking up at the patio with tight lips before moving to stand at the bottom step.

  “I’d like to speak to you if I could,” Jessica said primly.

  “We don’t speak to skanks,” Sophie shot back.

  “Must you be so childish, Sophie?” Jessica said with a sigh.

  “Yeah, Sophie. Besides, she might be de-skankified by now,” Ginna pointed out. Both women grinned at each other.

  Kalv sat on the rails of the patio and watched the interplay with interest. Women never ceased to amaze him. They could level each other with words edges with razor blades and pulverize each other without raising a finger.

  “I thought you’d be at least civil,” Jessica replied.

  “Why would I be
? Your so-called man burned my pasture and basically has been trying to make my life a living hell,” Ginna retorted.

  “You had this cretin blow up his pastures last night!” Jessica pointed to Kalv.

  “How did I do that exactly?” Kalv asked. He threw a look at Ginna and winked, it was quite surprising to see her shy smile and her sexy look his way. They were layers to Ginna, which meant he was always on his toes.

  “You probably have some unsavory characters with a plane at your beck and call.” Jessica said.

  “Hmm, that is a possibility. I bet you’ll just have to prove how this cretin did what you said. Oh no, you can’t. So sorry.” Kalv shook his head sympathetically

  “Don’t worry about her,” Ginna said airily. “She shouldn’t use words she doesn’t understand and Jessica here is an expert on unsavory characters. Even though she wants to act like Sue Ellen living on South Fork ranch, she is more like one of the strippers down at Titty Peaks. Shall we tell Kalv here how you earned money until Luke started putting it in your pocket?”

  Jessica’s face turned beet red with shame and fury. “I’m here to try to make a truce. Luke will leave your land alone and in turn you leave him alone.”

  “Really?” Ginna grinned and pulled her phone from her pocket and pressed a few numbers. “Luke. Hey, douche, it’s Ginna. How’s it going?” She was silent for a few moments and from his position Kalv could hear the yelling from the receiver of her phone. “Oh you’re sweet to ask how I’m doing since both our farms’ pastures were burned last night. And now Jessica is here telling me you want to make a truce, I thought that was simply divine.”

  “Ginna, please don…” Jessica held out her hand.

  Kalv could see the fear on her face and in that instant knew that Jessica overstepped her boundaries by coming to Ginna’s house.