It’s the weirdest thing but as we drove back to my place I realized I didn’t quite know how to talk to her. It had been so long since I’d wooed anyone and what’s more since I’d had any real dealings with another human being other than my brother’s weekly calls, that I was a bit rusty.

“I’m not moving, let’s get that shit straight right fucking now. I like my place. I put a lot of blood and sweat in it and I’ll be damned if your prissy ass is going to have me living in some overpriced flop in the damn town with all those nosy ass people.”

“Who asked you?”

“Shut up and listen.” Pain in the fucking ass.

“If you have a problem you’re gonna have to speak up because I’m not a mind reader. If I do something you don’t like and you don’t tell me, if I do that shit again, that’s on you.”

“I’m not going to change anything about who I am, so if you have any delusions about turning me into some milksop that you can boss around think again.” I was driving like a bat outta hell to get out of town and back to my place. Like I expected her to jump out and run.

Once we reached the turnoff to my little mountain hideaway I was feeling at peace once more. Neither of us had said a word in the last ten minutes or so but I could see from the expression on her face out the corner of my eye, that she had plenty on her mind.

I waited until we were home and locked my nosy ass dog outside to turn to her again. “Now you can talk.” She kept her lips buttoned like she’d become a damn mute in the last half hour.

“Nothing to say? You seemed to have plenty to say to my brother.” I guess I gave away too much with my tone on that one because she gave me one of those nosy ass female on the scent looks.

“That’s because your brother is reasonable and easy to talk to.” That’s what she thinks. If she only knew the number of conversations I’ve had with my sister in law that sound pretty much like this one. Only in those my brother was the star of the show. Females!

“And I’m not? Tell me one thing you tried to talk to me about that I ignored.” She opened her mouth to lie because she knew damn well that she never brought it up.

Even though I know what’s bothering her, she never did open her mouth and say it so… that sounds like a dick move Braden, even for you. And who the fuck are you, a damn saint?

“I’m still waiting.” I’m not sure why I needed her to say it. Would it make it easier for me to blame her for asking me to remove it? As I looked at her and how miserable this was making her, something clicked inside.

Some things take me a little longer than others, but I was catching on. She couldn’t bring herself to ask me for two reasons. One she was afraid I’d say no, and two she didn’t want to hurt me. And in the process was hurting herself.

I realized how selfish I was being and how strong she was. She’d kept coming back even though I didn’t deserve it. Even after I’d been more horrible to her than with anyone else I know, she’d put her pride on the line; for me.

I walked over to where she sat and crouched down in front of her. I didn’t say anything for the longest time, just took her hands in mine.

“Elena was my wife….” I told her the story from beginning to end and wiped her tears when they fell. “I don’t know how to put her away, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t love you. Can you understand that?”

“I guess so, I guess I didn’t understand.”

“That’s because we didn’t talk about it. But in this case, I shoulda used my head. I didn’t take into consideration how young you are, and how something like this might seem to you.”

She nodded her head understandingly and I pulled her from the chair and into my arms. We sat on the couch like that, with her on my lap until she stopped sniffling.

Then I got wordlessly to my feet and walked into the bedroom. I put her down on my bed and fought with the decision I was about to make. It was hard as hell, but I took the photo from its place of two and a half years and put it in the drawer.

Her eyes followed my every move when I took off my clothes and her hands reached for her own without being told.

When I climbed into bed next to her this time, there was no rush. It was as if with that one stumbling block removed there was no hurry. I could take my time and lover her the way my heart wanted.

So my fingers were sure and gentle when they played with her nipples. And when I licked and sucked my way down her middle to her cunt she opened for me with a sigh.

I took my time inhaling her essence before letting my tongue inside. Her taste burst forth on my tongue and inflamed my senses. My heart beat the way it did that night for the first time and I knew that this was right, that we were meant to be here together like this.

I ate her out until she came but all the while I wanted to bury my cock deep inside her. After she came and I’d cleaned her up with my tongue, I licked my way up her body until my hips rested between her wide spread legs.

This time when I sank my dick into her there was no resistance, no wince of pain on her face. It was as if her body had decided to open up and accept me the way my heart had accepted her.

I took her face between my hands and we moved together in a slow dance that kept building the deeper I fucked into her. Her eyes, I never took mine away from them.

“I love you.” She cried at my words and I kissed them away before she gave them back to me. I didn’t feel like a complete ass for saying them to her so soon after we met. But instead was happy as fuck that I had the chance to say them again.

And when I came in her this time, I told her exactly what I was doing to her. As her body shook in orgasm and her pussy pulled the cum from my cock chute, I whispered my true intentions in her ear.

“Give me a child Cassie. I want you to have my child.” Her words did not come but her body answered. It answered in the way she arched deep, driving my cock deeper into her womb.

The way she clutched at me trying to get closer. The way she wrapped her arms and legs around me like she’d never let go.

And when I emptied my seed inside her in a never- ending stream, I had no doubt that if she wasn’t already carrying my seed, then she soon will be.

That night I fucked her like I own her. There wasn’t a part of her that I didn’t suck, lick bite, taste, until I was fucking into her sweet cunt again. Each time I rolled away from her she’d roll into my chest and my dick would get hard again.

And when she wanted one last round after I’d fucked her for the fifth time, I rolled to my back and put her astride me to straddle my cock before pulling her down and letting her ride me.

“Tomorrow I’m going to teach you how to take my cock in your ass.” As I knew it would, her cunt tightened around my cock and her pussy gushed juice.

I fucked her through one orgasm after another until we both fell asleep with a satisfied look on our faces.