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After agreeing to meet back here in the morning we left and went back to the women who were sitting around gabbing about who knows what.

I ignored my sisters’ knowing looks and sat on the arm of her chair. “Scoot over baby.” There wasn’t enough room so I lifted her and sat her on my lap.

“Did you have a good time tonight?”

“It was fun, my first party.”

“Where did you learn to dance like that?”

“YouTube.”

“Seriously?”

“Sure, I learned a lot of stuff that way. Track taught me how to log on without leaving a trace or dad would’ve skinned us.” She smiled and it was so open, so lacking in artifice or any of the things I’ve grown accustomed to from women.

I had a sudden thought, “you’re not shy are you baby?” She couldn’t be, not dancing like that in a roomful of people.

“No I don’t think so, I like to dance. But not if it’s going to upset you.”

“It wasn’t your dancing that upset me beautiful, I thought you were amazing. It was the men watching you do it that pissed me off.”

“Oh so Kelly was right.”

“Oh yeah, what did she say?”

“She said it would light a fire under your ass.” I could tell from the way she said that that she had no idea she was letting the cat out of the bag. Could she really be that innocent? I decided to test that theory.

“Do you like me Ariel?”

“Yes! I get butterflies in my tummy when you’re near and tonight when you kissed me, I thought I could fly.”

I stared at her nonplussed for the barest of seconds not quite believing my ears. I looked around at the others but they were busy smooching so I knew my sisters weren’t putting her up to this.

“Do you remember what I told you on the yacht?” She nodded her head and pulled at her skirt. “And you’re okay with that?”

“I’d love to have a baby!” Did she have any idea of the shit storm that would follow if I just took her? Of course she doesn’t, and she never will.

“And you want that with me?”

“I never wanted it before.”

“But you’ve never been around anyone else before either have you.”

“You won’t understand.”

“Hold that thought, come with me!” I felt sure that the others were too preoccupied to be shoving their nose in my shit when I got to my feet, took her hand and pulled her from the room behind me.

Once outside I removed my light jacket and put it around her shoulders. “Walk with me.” I took her hand again and felt the slight tremble as I headed towards the beach.

“What do you mean I won’t understand? Won’t understand what?”

“My feelings. You think that because my life was so different from yours that I don’t know what I feel.”

She was right to a point but how does she know that? She can’t possibly know me that well. “How do you know that?”

“Because I’ve been studying you, it’s something I’m very good at, reading people. I feel like I know you now. I know you want to protect me because you think I’m wounded. You know why I was shut away don’t you?”

She dropped that in there so neatly I almost walked right into it. “I do, but don’t ask me to tell you about that right now. There’s still a lot of work to be done.”

“Just tell me this. Is whatever it is going to take you away from me?”

“No; never, I won’t let it!” I was saying that as much for her as for myself.

“But tell me honestly Ariel, how sure are you about this? You say you’ve been studying me, and no doubt my sisters have been filling your head with stories, but you have no experience with anything like this.”

“All my life, I’ve done nothing but dream. Dream and imagine what my life would be like if things were different.”

“When my brother fell in love, it was eye opening. I’d only seen love in movies, or read about it in books, but I knew that if I ever found it I’d know.”

She looked up at me then and I would’ve given her the world if she asked.

“I said you won’t understand because you’re like my brother, you and your brothers you’re… you think differently, like men. Protectors, providers, you love in a different way.”

“But love isn’t something you can explain Devon. It doesn’t matter if you’re someone like me, who’ve been shut away my whole life, or someone like you who’ve been free. Love just is.”

She pulled my hand to her chest where her heart beat wildly and I became suddenly tongue tied. She made it sound so easy, could it really be that simple?

“I know because of what I feel when you look at me. Or how my heart races when you’re near. I know because I dream about you at night and it makes me sad to think of never seeing you again when this is all over.”

“Fuck baby.” I took her face between my hands and lifted it to mine in the moonlight. She got up on her toes to meet my lips halfway.

I tested her with soft nibbles of her lips before deepening the kiss the way I wanted to and sank into her. “Don’t ever change Ariel!”

I kissed her nose and looked down at her shaking my head. “No matter what your sisters say, don’t you ever change you hear me?”

I grinned at her to let her know I was kidding before taking her hand and carrying on. “I don’t know anything about sex though so you’re going to have to teach me.”

I almost fell over my damn feet in the sand. I tried to answer her but there was a frog in my throat, not to mention the python behind my zipper.

“I don’t think you’re ready for that yet.”

“Why not?”

“Why not? Because we just met and you need time to…”

“But Kelly and Quinn had sex the first time they met.” What the fuck!

“Don’t you want to have sex with me?”

“Baby, haven’t anyone ever talked to you about this?”

“Uh-huh, the girls said it’s one of the best parts of having a husband. Kat said every time Colton looks at her he mounts her.”

“Whoa, okay-okay-okay, baby, don’t tell me anything else that the girls say okay.” For fuck sake what the hell do these women be getting up to?

“Well don’t you?”

“Don’t I what?”

“Want to have sex with me?”

“Baby, Ariel…of course I want to have sex with you, but I don’t think we should…you’re not...”

“I want to have sex with you, but only when you’re ready.” How the fuck did we get here? Her face looked a bit crestfallen and I felt like a monster.

“Look at me. I’m trying to do the right thing here Ariel. I don’t want to rush you…”

“Devon, I don’t know what’s going to happen to me, I don’t even know who I am anymore. And I’m plenty old enough to know I’m not a baby you know.”

“I know you’re not a baby- baby, but…”

“And you said you want to have babies. Did you know that all your sisters are pregnant? Except for Kelly though she says that as much as she and Quinn do it she just might be because she’s not using anything.”

Oh man, she really is that innocent. She pulled out of my hand and ran ahead, skipping and laughing in the sand.

In the background the waves rolled in slowly, gently as she danced in the moonlight. She started to sing and I got choked up.

I stopped moving and watched her as she swayed to the song she was singing. It sounded like Diamonds. I never knew that song was so sensuous.

She moved to the beat in her head, uninhibited, sexy, wanton. She was a confusing mix of innocence and hot sexuality.

I was standing in front of her before I even realized I’d moved. I put my hands on her waist and she jumped up and wrapped her legs and arms around me. “Good girl!”

Her skirt had ridden up over her panties and I cupped her ass in my hands while taking her mouth a little less gently this time.

My cock jumped at the feel of her heat beneath the softness of her underwear. She ate at my mouth in her untrained way and I reveled in feeding her my tongue for her to suck on while she moaned into my mouth.

“I want to fuck you so hard!” Oh for fuck sake I did it again. I started to apologize but her body shook and she pressed herself harder against me before covering my mouth again.

I had visions of taking her down to the sand and driving into her, but I couldn’t do that to her, not her first time. Especially when someone might come along any second.

I walked backward a pace before turning and heading onto the path that led to our cottage. I kept one eye on the path as we made it to the door.

I didn’t stop at the couch but walked right through to the bedroom and the bed that was waiting there. We stood there for what felt like forever just feeding off of each other’s lips.

There was a wet stain on the front of my jeans but I wasn’t sure that it was just me. I let my fingers travel down her ass to the slit between her thighs where she had her legs spread and felt the wet spot in the crotch of her panties.

“I’m going to touch you now, don’t be afraid.” I pressed my finger against her and rubbed until her essence was on my hand and her scent was in the air.

My cock lurched uncomfortably behind my zipper and I needed to get him out of there, but I ran my finger along her heat a little longer, testing her again.

If she showed any fear I’d pull back, give her the time I thought she needed. But she didn’t flinch, didn’t show any fear, instead she rocked herself harder against my growing cock and pushed down on my finger.

When she whined in frustration at my teasing I knew what she wanted, but I wanted something too. I wanted to, no needed to make her mindless with need so it would be easier for her to take me.

There was a mix of fear and excitement coursing through me as I envisioned getting my long hard cock into her tight little pussy and my head almost exploded at the images that flitted through my mind.

My hunger rose and I bit her lip before licking the sting away with my tongue. I should give myself a minute to calm down before going any farther, before I hurt her. At least that’s what I told myself, but it took effort for me to put her down.

My hands were shaking and my heart beat in my cock heavy and strong. When I took my mouth away she followed and whined again, her eyes bright with lust.

I was gentle as I laid her back across the bed, gentle when I lifted her top up over her breasts that I’d been dying to see.

I leaned over her, the roughness of my jeans brushing against the softness of her inner thighs, and took her nipple into my mouth.

She acted like I’d electrocuted her. Her whole body tensed and lifted and her hand came down to hold my head in place as her limbs shook.

I played her nipple with my tongue as I ground my jean covered cock into her pussy, getting us both even wetter.

When she wrapped her legs around me I left one nipple for the other, sucking it hard into my mouth and giving her my teeth.

Her fresh pussy scent was driving me insane and I wanted to rip her panties in half and bury my head between her thighs, but again I reined it in.

I pushed the top all the way up and pulled it over her head before trailing my fingers along the skin of her soft smooth stomach.

I teased her navel with my fingertip and marveled at my control. In my head I was already inside her, but I knew she needed more, much more.

With her eyes held with mine, I reached beneath her and undid her skirt before pulling it off down her thighs, leaving her only in her panties that were sticking to her cunt from her wetness.

I buried my nose in the wet spot before tasting her through the silk with my tongue. She pulled her legs up and planted them on the bed as she tried pulling my head harder against her.

My heart was a huge lump in my chest as I pulled her panty aside and looked at her pussy for the first time.

It was perfectly bare, fat, pretty. Her gash was one long line between her plump labia, her clit barely peeping out from its hood.

I went after it with my tongue, holding the silk of her panties aside with my hand. The sounds she made echoed in my head as I teased her clit into my mouth.

Her pussy overflowed and I felt her juices run down my chin. I left her clit and licked my way down her gash until I found the hole that I would soon pierce.

I wanted to see all of her so I took the crotch of her panties in both hands and pulled, tearing it in half, but leaving the scraps clinging to her body.

“Open.” She spread her legs for me but I pushed them open wider, getting to my knees on the floor between her wantonly spread thighs.

I waited for her to stop me, for her embarrassment to show, but when I looked up at her she was just staring at me with that look of lust in her eyes.

I lowered my head to her again, lathing her with my tongue as I ran it up and down her slit. I could eat her pussy all day it was that good.

Her taste was sweet, untainted, and knowing that I was the first one she’d shared this with only added to the pleasure.

I reached down and released my cock out of her sight giving it some much needed relief. Then I opened her little pussy with my fingers to see just how small she really was.

Her pussy hole was compact and tight and there was no way I was getting the python in there. My head swam with images as I thought of the best way to open her up so she could take all of me.

I dove back into her pussy with my tongue while easing a long thick finger inside her. I moved it around as best I could while sucking on her clit but her tightness fought me.

I pulled out my finger and gave her my tongue again before trying again. This time I used the sawing action and got my finger deeper inside her.

I don’t know where she learned it, maybe it was her natural sexuality but when I looked up her body again, she was pulling on her tits as her head moved from side to side and her hips moved in lustful circles.

Good, she was still with me. I knew by now there was no way to avoid hurting her and I thought it best to get the hard part over with so that I could comfort her afterwards.

If my cock got any harder it’ll kill her, not that it could get any harder. It was already harder than it had ever been before and I didn’t even know that shit was possible.

I got to my feet and kicked off my jeans while pulling my shirt over my head before laying on top of her.

She accepted me without question, wrapping her arms around my shoulders as she lifted her lips for my kiss.

I wondered how she’d react to her own taste on my tongue but I needn’t have, she loved it. She ate at my tongue while I eased my finger in and out of her pussy, stretching her as much as I could.

I was able to get two fingers inside her while my cock revolted. I leaked pre cum all over her thigh and onto the sheets. Copious amounts of the shit, was coming out of me, like someone had turned on a hose.

I used some of it to grease up my length before tapping the entrance to her pussy with the head of my cock, once again testing her.