Page 33 of Wellspring

IT TOOK less than the promised ten minutes, though it seemed an eternity to Erick, before Cade came hurrying down the trail, his blond hair still dripping water onto the collar of his shirt, and threw himself in Erick’s arms. He kissed Erick like his life depended on the contact of their mouths, a kiss Erick returned with all the longing he’d kept bottled up since his first sight of Cade on the docks in Galveston.

When Cade finally pulled away, panting into Erick’s shoulder, he gasped out, “Oh God. Fuck me now.”

Erick had spent most of the day and the previous night imagining just that, but with Michele’s assurance of privacy, there was no need to rush.

Not before he’d gotten his hands on the magnificent body he’d fantasized about.

“You are too fine a gift to partake in haste.” He unbuttoned Cade’s shirt—an easy task since half the buttons were already undone—and leaned forward to kiss a path down Cade’s throat.

Cade’s head fell back, giving Erick full access to his skin, golden and smooth in the gathering dusk. “You… and your… fancy… words,” Cade panted. “You know I’m… a sure thing… right?”

“That does not make you unworthy of being appreciated as you deserve.” Erick didn’t know how much experience Cade had, but he was determined to drive the memory of any other lover from Cade’s mind.

And cherishing Cade would give Erick as much pleasure as it did Cade.

He ran his hands beneath the shirt panels to caress the strong planes of Cade’s back and continued to press kisses across the wealth spread before him.

He could sate himself on the taste of Cade’s skin, cool from the shower but heating beneath his touch.

Cade arched into the caress, shrugging his shirt off completely before wrapping his arms around Erick’s shoulders. He ran one hand into Erick’s hair, dislodging his hat. Erick paused to see if Cade would guide him, but the touch stayed light, encouraging but not directing.

Erick wished he had thought to take the blanket from his bunk, though that would open them to too many questions when they returned. Instead he sank slowly to his knees, unfastening Cade’s gun belt and setting it on the ground before moving to the buttons on his dungarees.

“Eriiick!” Cade’s knees trembled and almost gave out on him. Erick grabbed his hips to help steady him until Cade managed to lock them straight again. He gave a throaty chuckle. “If you’re gonna suck me, I either need a tree or a place to lie down.”

His mouth already watering at the prospect, Erick maneuvered Cade to the swing and managed to work his fly open before sitting him down.

Cade’s cock sprang free, thick and ruddy, and Erick lapped his tongue over the tip before taking it as deep into his mouth as he could.

This was a pleasure he had only dreamed of, and he intended to savor it to the fullest.

Cade spread his legs as wide as he could with his pants hampering his movements, slid his hips forward to the edge of the seat, leaned his head against the back of the swing, and gripped Erick’s shoulders tightly.

“Fuck, that’s good,” he groaned. “Almost as good as fucking you will be.” Then, as if he realized what he’d said, he lifted his hands and his head and looked at Erick. “If you’d want that, I mean. Some day.”

“What have I done to deserve you?” Erick pushed up to reach Cade’s lips, the hunger in his kiss at the thought of taking what Cade offered an answer in itself.

But that was for later. Tonight was for Cade.

To leave no doubt, he added, “I would want that very much. But just now I have weightier matters to attend to.” He stole one more quick kiss before kneeling back down to resume his most pleasant task.

Cade’s groans fell like raindrops on Erick’s ears.

He kneaded Erick’s shoulders and rocked his hips slightly in time to the up and down motion of Erick’s head, but beyond that, he gave himself completely into Erick’s care.

His trust redoubled Erick’s determination to lavish all the pleasure on Cade that he deserved.

Wrapping one hand around the base of Cade’s cock, Erick reached the other up to flick over a peaked nipple.

It took a few moments to synchronize the motion of the swing and the rocking of Cade’s hips and his own slide up and down the delicious length to keep from choking, but he found the perfect rhythm at last, to judge from the increasingly frantic sounds he was wringing from Cade.

“Cl-close,” Cade choked out, pushing at Erick’s head. “Wait. Stop. I want you inside me.”

Erick was tempted to continue, to savor Cade’s taste on his tongue, but the thought of feeling Cade around him made his cock jump, and he hoped to have many more opportunities to experience bringing Cade to completion.

He pulled off with a final kiss to the glistening tip.

“How are we to do this? I will know better to bring a blanket in future, but….” Their surroundings, while private, were not best suited to lovemaking.

“Perhaps I could sit on the swing, and you could….”

“Ride you like the stallion Burke compares you to?” Cade said with a lascivious grin. “I can do that.” He stood up, toed off his boots, and dug into his pocket for a jar of lotion before dropping his pants to the ground. “Get comfortable, because I intend to take you for a long, hard ride.”

Erick could feel his cheeks heating, but Cade’s suggestion sounded almost perfect.

He made quick work of removing his gun belt to set beside Cade’s and stripping his clothes.

Tossing them over the back of the swing, he sat and beckoned to Cade.

“Let me prepare you, and then you may judge how adept a rider I am.”

Cade set one foot on the edge of the swing, opening himself to Erick’s hands and gaze. “I thought I was the one doing the riding,” he said.

“This time.” Erick pulled Cade between his spread legs.

“Lean down so I may kiss you.” As fiercely as Cade plundered his mouth, Erick couldn’t say which of them controlled the kiss, but he was not one to argue with such heady results.

He somehow managed to uncap the jar and dipped his fingers inside, rubbing the lotion between them before tracing them along the crease between Cade’s cheeks.

He teased around the pucker and slid a finger inside slowly to gauge Cade’s reaction.

“Feels so good,” Cade groaned. “Not as good as you’re going to feel when I finally get on your lap, but still good.”

“Let us see if I can make it feel better still.” Erick added a second finger, circling until he found the spot he was searching for.

“Fuck!” Cade’s gasps of pleasure were hard for Erick to resist, but he needed to be sure Cade would feel nothing but joy when he finally slid inside him, so he worked in three fingers and spread them until Cade was moaning to stop fucking around and just fuck him already.

Erick scooted to the front of the swing to give Cade as much space to put his legs as possible. “Can you climb on?”

Cade grinned at him before stepping onto the swing and lowering himself into a squat that ended with him hovering directly over Erick’s cock. “You’ll have to guide me the last little bit. I can’t quite see where I’m going.”

Erick wiped what was left of the lotion from his fingers over his cock, a gasp escaping at the sensation.

He squeezed around the base as he aligned himself, determined to give Cade the long, hard ride he’d promised.

“Ease down,” he murmured, holding on with one hand as he grasped Cade’s shoulder with the other.

Cade sank down, taking Erick in all the way to the root.

His eyes closed, his lower lip caught between his teeth, his face was the picture of ecstasy, and Erick had to bite his own lip to stop himself from finding completion at the sight of Cade’s bliss and the tight heat surrounding him.

Cade’s shout when Erick pushed up into him, pressing just that little bit deeper, was surely loud enough to be heard back at the bunkhouse, making Erick glad Michele was guarding their privacy.

Planting his feet to brace them, Erick caught Cade’s head and pulled him down into a kiss that stole both their breaths. When he could bear to tear himself away, he nuzzled Cade’s ear. “Ride ’em, cowboy.”

Cade let out a sharp bark of laughter that nearly unseated him from his perch on Erick’s lap. “Really, Erick?” he asked even as he began to post on Erick’s cock.

“I have always wanted to say that.” Erick slid his palms down Cade’s chest and caught his hips, pushing up as Cade bore down, settling them into a perfect gait.

As much as he longed to draw out the moment, to heighten Cade’s pleasure, it was too intense to last. “I am close,” he groaned, clasping Cade’s cock and hoping he could hold out long enough to see the flush of climax on Cade’s face.

“Then you better fuck the come out of me now,” Cade ground out. “Come on, Erick. Make me feel it tomorrow.”

“I would rather make you feel it now,” Erick gasped.

There was no lotion left on his hand, but Cade was leaking enough to ease the friction as Erick stroked him fast and hard.

“Now, Cade, now!” He held on just long enough for Cade to stiffen and cry out, spilling hotly through his fingers, before his own release tore through him and his eyes fell closed on the vision of Cade’s face suffused with pleasure.

Cade slumped forward against Erick’s chest. “Damn, I needed that. It’s been too long.” He nuzzled Erick’s jaw and worked his way across for a kiss, which he lingered over. “You’re a good ride, Erick Heller. Even better, you’re a good man.”

Erick bit off a moan as Cade pulled back enough to slide free and dropped beside him on the swing, slinging his legs over Erick’s. He ran his palms against the burr of stubble on Cade’s cheeks and turned his head to claim another kiss. “Perhaps next time you will let me take the saddle.”