Chapter 22
Spring, Three Months Later
Cara crawled back on top of Seth who was sprawled out naked across the king-sized bed of the Dallas Omni Hotel’s penthouse suite. She grinned as she straddled his hips, but didn’t sit on his rigid length. Instead, she continued to stroke his hard-on as she rested back on her heels.
“Tell me the truth. Did you do this on purpose so you didn’t have to go back to that farm?” Cara let her perfectly shaped silicone breasts lie on Seth’s chest as she bent down for a tender kiss.
“Inside is better than outside,” Seth whispered into her kiss, arching his back and thrusting his hips farther into her hand.
She rose and lifted her hips, but sat back again, teasing him unmercifully.
She wanted real answers, and Seth looked like he wasn’t paying attention to much more than the movement of her hand.
Cara stopped and lifted a perfectly arched brow, waiting for his answer.
“What? Don’t stop…” Seth moaned and reached for her. Cara quickly rolled away, laughing as she ducked out of his arms.
“Tell me the truth, Seth. I totally wouldn’t put it past you to call in those sleazy, stupid photographers to keep us from going out to see Austin. Now did you do it or not?” Cara asked Seth while standing at the end of the bed. Seth lunged for her, but she backed out of his reach. “Answer me…”
“No, I didn’t do it…but only because I didn’t think of it!” Seth said, lying on his side, stroking himself, his head in his hand. Actually both heads were in his hands, and his eyes were on her breasts.
“Hmm…you sound believable. But, if you didn’t do it, that means they might be getting close.
Maybe we shouldn’t go out to the ranch, but I really want to see Austin personally and thank him!
” Cara said, stomping her foot and worrying her bottom lip.
After a second, she flipped around and walked to the window.
At twenty-three stories high with protected window glass, no one would be able to see in, but Seth was a protective new husband.
He came up behind her, moving her from the window before he took hold of her breasts.
They were big, too big, and spilled over his hands just the way he liked it.
“Sweetheart, we’re going to the ranch first thing in the morning.
I’ve had them followed for two days. They’re following us, nothing shows they know anything about Austin, I promise.
Now come back to bed. Babies don’t get made without diligence.
” Seth didn’t let go of her breasts and walked toward the bed, pushing her forward.
“I don’t know, Seth. Something’s wrong if they’re still looking for him.” Cara bent her neck a little farther to the side for his kisses.
“It’s Rich and Mercedes. They can’t find their asses even if they have a roadmap, and you know Austin’s been their primary focus for the last ten years. They’re totally being watched while they watch us. We’ll know if they move one foot, then we can act accordingly.”
“Do you think Kitt will like us?” Cara asked as she crawled onto the bed and looked over her shoulder with a grin and a wiggle of her hips. He grabbed her, holding her right there and eased his hand between her slightly parted thighs.
“He might like you.”
“He’ll like you now that we’re married,” Cara said on a small moan.
“We’ll see. Now, no more talking and a lot more… Ah, yes! You’re very wet. Good girl.”
=?=
“They look good!” Mike yelled from his perch on the side of the corral fence.
Austin was beside him, with Micah, his two boys, and Lily all there with him.
Kitt walked Hooch through the gates in a newly fenced area of the pasture.
Jose adjusted the hydraulics on their brand new horse walker.
Kitt held on to Hooch’s reins while talking to him as he attached his halter to the walker.
None of them paid too much attention to the car pulling up to the barn.
Austin kept his eyes trained on Kitt, but stepped back a couple of steps until he forced his eyes to the Prius now parked next to his truck.
He saw Cara hop out from it, a giant smile on her pretty face.
She ran to Austin, jumping right up on him, and wrapped her long legs around him as she gave him a giant hug.
Seth sauntered over a little more sedately.
“You look so good!” she squealed. Austin had no choice but to wrap his hands around her thighs and ass to help hold her up. Her long legs and arms stayed tightly wrapped around him, and she kissed him all over the face.
“Seth, you let your wife do this to everyone?” Austin teased his agent who came to stand in front of him.
“He’s got a point, Cara,” Seth said dryly. Austin still had Cara by the ass, but lifted one hand to shake Seth’s.
“I don’t care at all. I missed you, Austin. And it’s so good to see you looking so good. You do like it here!” She kissed him one last time and dropped her legs. She was tall, and didn’t have far to drop.
“I never thought I’d see you here again.” Austin laughed while looking at Seth’s not so happy expression. Cara stayed glued to Austin’s side, and he wrapped an arm around her.
“Me either.” Seth wasn’t laughing.
“And I love it out here. I want us to buy some property out here for a little private vacation home. Wouldn’t that be great, Austin?
We could be neighbors!” Cara smiled big, ignoring the grimace her husband gave as she left her hold on Austin and wrapped herself around Seth.
Cara was just that way. It was the reason Austin had picked her at the beginning.
She was comfortable no matter where she was or what she was doing.
Austin had the sudden feeling of being watched, and he turned around to see the entire practice had come to a standstill.
Well, all except for Kitt and nothing ever stopped him from working.
The rest of the crew stared openly at him, Cara, and Seth.
Okay, everyone but Micah’s boys. They only had eyes for Cara.
“Lily, Mike, Micah, this is Cara and Seth. That’s Kitt and Jose in the arena. These are Micah’s boys Rusty and Brent.” Austin made the quick introductions, pointing everyone out. They all put those polite Southern manners to good use and came forward to shake hands, welcoming them to Texas.
“I have dinner cookin’. Both my girls are gone tonight. I want you all over for dinner,” Lily said graciously, before calling over her shoulder to Kitt. “And that means you too.”
“Yes, ma’am.” It was the only indication he even knew what was going on around him. All eyes turned toward Kitt as he held tight to Hooch’s halter. He walked slowly with the horse, not once turning or looking up, but kept his free hand rubbing on Hooch with each step they took.
“Lily, you didn’t have to go to any trouble for us,” Seth said, after a minute of silence.
“I didn’t at all. I’m headin’ home to finish things now. Kitt, they look great,” Lily called out, and for the first time, everyone watched Kitt turn toward Lily and acknowledge the others.
“Oh, Austin, he’s yummy! I see why you like it here so much!” Cara said, linking her arm with Austin’s, moving them to the fence. Austin covered her words with an ease only achieved by years of hiding from the public.
“He’s Hooch, the oldest of the horses, but only by a few weeks. Or about a month, right, Mike?” Austin asked. Cara stepped up on the fence and laid her chin in her hand while watching Kitt work.
“This is the colt you guys had while I was here?” Seth asked Mike as they followed along behind the others.
“Yep, big isn’t he? He’s like his dad, really pretty fast already. Getting faster every day,” Mike said. Seth came to stand behind Cara. Everyone else was back to watching Kitt work with the chestnut.
“Huh. Well, that’s something else,” Seth said, dropping his hands in his pockets.
“It is. He and Kitt are like one,” Mike added.
“He’s beautiful. Can I see them all?” Cara shaded her eyes with her hands from the bright sunlight.
She stood on the bottom rail and Micah’s boys were standing off to the side.
Austin looked back at them, catching them staring at her ass.
All he could do was chuckle. He totally got where they were coming from; he was as transfixed with Kitt’s ass.
“Boys, let’s get home. Cara, it was nice to meet you, Seth, good to see you,” Micah said.
Hands were again shaken as Southern manners required. The boys looked regretful to be leaving but listened to their father without any outward protest. Their slow-moving feet, on the other hand, said it all.
“Come on, I’ll take you on a tour,” Austin said.
“You guys go. I’m going to check email,” Seth said.
“Baby!” Cara whined. “It’s our honeymoon, we’re supposed to be together twenty-four seven!
“You should’ve read the fine print, honey. It said unless we came here. Go have fun. Come get me when it’s time to eat.” Seth ignored her whine and kissed her pouty lips. He grabbed his briefcase along with a suitcase from the back seat of the Prius and went straight for the house.
=?=
Kitt sat in a darkened corner of Austin’s porch and waited for the chatting to end in the barn and for Austin to come back to the house.
The best he could hear, Cara and Austin were in the barn doing another walkthrough and Seth was in the house, staying hidden away from any of the scary farm things that might go bump in the night. Kitt rolled his eyes at the thought.