Chapter 10 Dean
TEN
DEAN
I watch as Tallulah draws blood on the colt.
She works fast, cooing at him softly with each movement.
Needless to say, she’s a natural in her environment, especially with horses.
I’ve seen this woman with her hand up a cow’s ass.
I’ve seen her naked with my cock tunneling in and out of her cunt.
It doesn’t matter what she’s doing, my eyes are glued to her.
“Alright, he’s all done. Let’s see what Honey Belle over here has got going on.” She bends down. The fabric of her pants stretches across her plump ass. I’m tempted to walk across the walkway, hands itching to hold each globe in my hands with her legs wrapped around me.
“You naming my horse, sunshine?” Where I was once standing on the outside of the colt’s stall, I’ve since turned around to watch her move toward Honey Belle, an appropriate name for the pregnant mare.
The tan color is most commonly known as buckskin; add in her black mane and tail, which could also use a lot of tender loving care.
Hell, it doesn’t look like she’s been body clipped in a fuck of a lot of time, let alone brushed.
“We should talk after I’m done with the horses.
” It’s never a fucking good thing when someone says we should talk.
My jaw clenches. I’ll be damned if Tully thinks we’re going to end what we have.
Our relationship is too damn good even if we are keeping it quiet.
I won’t let her throw it away. Ain’t no damn way I’ll walk away without a fight.
“Tallulah Alexandria Jennings, do not make me take you to the tack room and show you what I think about you trying to get away from us.” I walk up behind her, my arms wrapping around her torso, chin settling in the crook of her neck.
She’s not putting up a fight like I thought she would, especially being out in the open, where anyone could walk into my hugging her. What an interesting turn of events.
“You’re such a pain in the ass, Dean Matthew Johnson,” she tosses out my full name like I did hers. “Why are you thinking the worst?” She looks over her shoulder, bright green eyes flanked by dark lashes the same color of her almost black hair, and it’s then I see Tallulah, really see her.
“No one says we should talk, male or female, unless there’s an issue, usually an unresolvable issue.” She turns around in my arms and lifts up on her toes, hooking her arms around my shoulders. I look from side to side, being a lookout of sorts.
“Well, excuse me for using the wrong verbiage. How is this instead? I’d like to talk to you about our relationship after we assess the horses.
I’m tired, Dean. So damn tired. I want to be able to touch you whenever I want, to talk to my best friend when you piss me off, or have what Birdie and Lane have.
I want dinners in the evening, breakfasts in the morning, and to touch you whenever I damn well please. ”
I’m ashamed to admit it takes me a fuck of a lot longer to digest what she just said.
I watch as she closes her eyes, takes a deep breath, and shows me the green of her irises.
“What about work?” I ask. The whole reason we kept this quiet was because of her job at Herbert’s Clinic.
Maybe she’s thinking about quitting and doing her own thing.
The start-up costs might be a whack, but she’d make it back easily enough with all the farms and ranches in a fifty-mile radius.
Hell, as much as she’s here, with all of our animals, she’d probably make back the truck and trailer alone should she decide to do the mobile vet deal.
“About that, I’m going to keep working for Herbert.
” She rolls her eyes. I smirk. This woman is no damn quitter.
“I know, I know. I’ve been crunching numbers, really talking it over with my parents.
Who, by the way, are team Tully, take the loan and go off to live your dream.
The only thing about doing that is obviously, it’s a fifty-fifty chance on if I fail or succeed.
” I start to interrupt her, but she covers my mouth with her hand.
Two can play that game. I lick her palm before nipping at it until she gets the message to move her hand.
“You’re a brat.” Her hand slides down, smearing my salvia on my cheek along the way.
“Finish what you have to say, then, sunshine.” She wipes the wetness into my skin and then puts her hands back around my neck. I squat down a bit, so she won’t have to keep standing on her toes.
“I will. I’m going to stay for six months.
I’ll build up a better rapport with some of the older ranchers who don’t think women can hack it as a vet.
” She captures my attention with that statement.
Anyone worth their salt would know Tully is a phenomenal veterinarian, and I’m not saying that because I’m sleeping with her.
Tallulah has been around animals her whole life in one way or the other.
Add in her going to school and staying ahead of her class a lot like Birdie did, and she’s the whole fucking package.
“Don’t get your knickers in a twist. I knew there was a possibility of it happening, new girl in town coming from a big city.
This is the way of the world, Dean. You just have to learn to roll with the punches.
Anyways, that’s my plan as long as I can stick with it, or on the off-chance I win the lottery.
Though, I hear you have to play to win.”
“Sunshine, you got this all figured out, but you need to know I’ve got your back, forever.” I don’t hold back. My head dips down, and I take her lips with mine. No longer having to hide how I feel for this woman is fucking amazing.