Levi looked up at the stars and smiled…again. He’d been smiling all day and his face kind of hurt. Zoe was lying in the crook of his arm and they were underneath a blanket in the bed of a pickup, parked up high on one of the hills that surrounded the ranch.

“They’re beautiful,” she whispered. She was right; there wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the stars looked huge, almost like they could reach up and touch them. Levi looked down at her and said:

“Not even close to you.” He brought his lips down to meet hers. He had kissed her at least a dozen times since she stepped out of the SUV that afternoon, but he still felt like he couldn’t get enough. They had spent the day at the Christmas celebration at the teen center and with Susie. It was a great day, but Levi was ecstatic to finally have her all to himself. It was cold out, but not snowing, so he’d borrowed one of the old pickups the prospects used on the ranch, tossed a few thick blankets in the back, and he’d taken her up the hill.

She parted her lips enough to let his tongue slide in and he pressed it into hers. Reaching up with the arm that was holding her, he tangled his fingers in her hair. It had grown a lot since he’d seen her. He used his grip on it now to tip her head back so that he could get to her neck. He kissed his way across, loving the contrast between the almost shockingly cold air and her warm, soft skin. Zoe had her warm hand on the side of his face and she stroked his cheek with her fingers softly as he kissed his way down underneath the blanket. He pushed up her shirt and found a breast with his lips, feeling it harden instantly against his tongue. He began to lick it and roll it with his tongue and then his lips. Zoe moaned out his name and held onto his head with her hands.

Levi could feel his cock pressing into the fabric of his jeans, desperately trying to escape. God, he wanted her. The men on the ranch, his brothers, had started speculating about his sexual orientation a couple of months in. Cody and Dax were the only ones he’d told about Zoe, and they were both supportive of his holding out until he figured out where that was going. He was fair game for the other guys, though, and they teased him relentlessly each time he turned down one of the club girls’ advances. He had spent a lot of time in the shower masturbating and imagining a moment just like this. Now that she was here, he felt like he was dreaming all over again.

He kissed his way down from her breasts, across her stomach and to the top of her pants. He unbuttoned and unzipped them and she lifted her butt so that he could pull them down over her hips…hips that were much fuller than the last time he’d made love to her. He took her panties down with them and then he had to dip down lower under the blankets and pull off her boots too. Once he had her gloriously naked, he went to work underneath the blanket, licking and sucking, tasting and smelling, experiencing every inch of her that he could get to. Her pussy was soaking wet when he started licking it and she was ready to come before he finally released her clit from between his teeth and shoved his fingers up into her. She cried out and her sexy voice echoed through the darkness. He moved his fingers in and out, using his thumb to press into her clit first and then moving his hand around so that he could use it to press into her ass. Zoe went crazy when he did that, writhing against the blanket he’d lain down in the bed of the truck. He had to hold her still when she got close again because she was bucking her hips up so hard that he was almost missing his target. She seemed to get even more excited when he held her down. “You like it when I’m in control, baby?”

“Oh, yeah.”

“Mm, good,” he said. “I like being in control.” He kept fingering her and he moved his lips up next to her ear. “I like having my way with your body, like it’s my own, personal playground.” Zoe moaned and he moved his fingers in her faster and harder. “Is your body mine, baby?”

“Mm-hmm, yes,” she panted out.

“All mine?”

“Yes, all yours.”

“Just your body?”

Zoe was panting and gasping hard. He could tell she was on the brink of her orgasm. “No…”

“What else is mine, Zoe? Tell me.”

“Everything,” she said in a raspy, breathless voice. “Oh God, Levi! Fuck!”

“Your heart, Zoe, is that mine?”

“Yes!”

“Your soul, baby, is that mine?”

“Yes! Fuck, yes!”

“Are you my person, Zoe? Am I yours?”

“Yes!” she screamed out just as her climax ripped through her body and Levi felt her come all over his hand. He leaned down and kissed her lips softly and whispered against them.

“Good, because I don’t want to live without you anymore.”

She was trying to suck breath into her lungs and he could barely understand her but it sounded like she said, “You don’t have to.”

He took his fingers out of her and let her lie there underneath the blanket and rest while he slid out and stripped off his clothes. While he undressed, he looked down at her pretty face in the moonlight She was looking up at him and her eyes were shining as brightly as the stars. As soon as he was naked and back down next to her on his knees, she lifted the blanket so he could crawl back in with her. His body was freezing and she wrapped her warm arms and legs around him and pulled him in tightly. Levi rocked against her while his body defrosted. Even though the rest of him was freezing, his cock was still as hard as a rock and it felt like it was on fire. He kissed her again and held her against him so that could feel her heartbeat. He loved that. He loved feeling his beat back against hers each time, like it was the same heart, beating in two bodies. As he kissed her again and the kiss turned passionate, he slid her sexy body up on top of his. He felt her warm hand reach down and wrap up the shaft of his cock as she guided him to her wet pussy. The stars in the sky had nothing on the ones that exploded in his head when she lifted her ass so that she could slide his hard cock into her sweet, tight pussy. She sat straight up then, taking him all the way in until their hips were grinding together. The blanket had fallen off her back, but she was smiling down at him and didn’t seem to care. Levi’s internal temperature had to be somewhere near a hundred degrees, maybe even hotter, as she started to bounce up and down on him, sliding those silky walls up and down the shaft of his aching cock. He put his hands on her hips and helped guide her for a while and then he slid them up her body until he reached her breasts and he grabbed a handful of each. He tugged gently so she would lean forward and while she continued to ride him, he sucked one of them into his mouth. He licked all the way around her nipple and then her large, dark areola and then he nibbled his way across the swell of the tops of them before sliding his mouth down over the second one and doing the same.

Zoe was moaning again and gasping and panting and she began to ride him harder and faster. Levi knew that he wasn’t going to last much longer. He’d wanted her for so long. He slid her off him to the side, leaving his cock buried in her pussy, and he lifted one of her long, shapely thighs. He could see her smooth skin glistening in the moonlight as he held it up there and drove his cock in and out of her from the side. Zoe was clawing at his chest and his back, making sexy noises that traveled through the night air and seemed to bounce off the stars. Levi felt himself getting close and he held her tighter while he moved his hips faster. The orgasm hit him like a truck and stole all the air from his lungs. He kept rocking into her for several minutes even after he finished, just because he hated the idea of pulling out of her. It was only when he realized she was shivering that he lowered her leg down to the blanket and moved over so that he could cover her up. Once again he slid his arm underneath her neck and pulled her against him. They lay there like that quietly for a long time when suddenly Levi remembered something.

“Susie said you had something for me.”

He felt her smile against his chest and then he felt the soft brush of her lips across his skin. “It’s in my pocket, in my jeans,” she whispered against his flesh, sending goosebumps racing down his spine. He reached down inside the blanket and found her jeans. He handed them to her and she fished a paper out of the back pocket. She had to move over slightly to unfold it and once she had it all the way open, she lay back down in the crook of his arm and said, “I wasn’t going to come. I wanted to, so badly…but I was so scared. I was so afraid that we misinterpreted this whole ‘angel’ thing and everything that happened really was a coincidence. I was afraid that you only wanted me because of some stupid dreams that didn’t mean anything. I went over to the house when I heard that Dax and Angel were coming for Susie. I was in her room helping her pack when she said, ‘I found something in the attic. The angel told me to give it to you.’ This was what she gave me.”

Zoe held the paper over in front of him. It was a child’s drawing; that much was obvious. It was of an angel with yellow hair and the angel had big wings. Next to the angel was another person with dark hair. Levi let his eyes travel to the bottom of the page. Written in a child’s hand it said,

“She will always be there, as long as I believe.” It was signed, Zoe Bennett.

“I was lost for such a long time, because I didn’t believe. I didn’t believe in anything, not angels, magic, or miracles. I didn’t even believe in human nature there for a while. It was only when I started believing again that things got better. It was only when I ran back into Krissy and then I met you that I started believing in anything again. I don’t remember drawing this. Krissy and I used to spend hours coloring together sometimes. But I think Susie found it and gave it to me at just the right time, to remind me that I needed to believe. I needed to believe that you were my person, and I was yours. I’m in love with you, Levi, and the strangest part is that I feel like I always have been.”

Levi kissed the side of her face and then let his lips make their way up to her ear. “I believe you are my person and I am yours. I’m in love with you, Zoe Bennett.” He moved up and covered her mouth with his. They kissed and touched and held onto each other underneath the blanket until they both fell asleep. Neither of them dreamt that night, but instead, held their dreams in each other’s arms.