STANDING
BETWEEN LOVE AND BETRAYALSTANDING
BETWEEN LOVE AND BETRAYAL
Jane is seated in front of Lou’s vanity mirror trying to fix her hair in a special way for Cody. But, her tresses are being rather stubborn tonight, and they simply refuse to stay in an upswept bun.
Through the mirror Jane glances up at Louise who is laying her dress out on the bed. “Could you help me with my hair? It doesn’t want to behave tonight.”
Louise walks over to the vanity. “Why don’t you just wear it down loose?”
“Because that is the way Buck likes it, and I’m trying to alter a few things about myself to please Cody. Cody likes my hair pulled up.”
“Jane, don’t change yourself for any man. If you want to wear your hair down loose, than by all means wear your hair loose and down. Don’t think you have to change to please Cody. If he can’t love you just because you were with Buck at first, then I would simply give Cody a piece of my mind.”
“A few changes won’t hurt. It might even help me to get closer to Cody.”
“Jane, you’re spending the night with Cody. Now is not the time to hope the two of you can become closer. That should have already happened.”
“I didn’t mean that we’re not close. What I meant is that I think every time Cody looks at me he envisions the woman that Buck loved.”
“You are the woman that Buck still loves.”
“Cody wants a fresh me. You know, a woman that Buck didn’t have before him.”
“Jane, if you ask me, Buck never really had you. I’ll I’m telling you is that you shouldn’t change yourself just to make Cody happy. You should do what makes Jane happy. Because someday when you’re Mrs. William F. Cody you’re going to look at yourself in a mirror just like this one, and you’re going to wonder where Jane went.”
Louise picks up the hairbrush and fixes Jane’s hair in an upswept bun. She watches Jane closely through the mirror. She wonders if any of her words to Jane are making the woman think about all she must give up just to be with Cody.
“It’s all done. What do you think?” Louise asked with a warm smile.
Jane stares at the woman looking back at her in the mirror. It really doesn’t look like her, but it does look nice. “It looks nice Louise. Thank-you for fixing it for me,” Jane spoke disheartened.
“Cody will be here in about thirty minutes. You should get dressed. You wouldn’t want to be late for such an important night for the two of you.”
“Yeah. I guess he will be here soon,” Jane remarked somberly.
“Well, I’m going to go check on Kid and the girls. I left Kid in charge of dinner so the girls are probably head to toe in spaghetti sauce,” Louise spoke as she walks to the doorway.
Jane walks to the bed and touches the dress that she had allowed Louise to choose for her to wear tonight. She had loved wearing a dress that would make Buck’s breath catch in his throat, but with Cody she doesn’t much care. Louise believes this night is special for her and Cody. So she picked out the most beautiful dress she could find.
Louise turns one last time to watch Jane who appears very sad to her. She watches Jane as she touches the soft fabric of the dress. Louise is no fool, and she can read Jane like a book from cover to cover. She loves Buck and the very thought of spending the night with Cody repulses her. “Don’t worry Jane. Nothing is as it seems,” Lou spoke quietly in her mind. She turns and finishes her decent down to the kitchen.
Jane nervously slips on the emerald green taffeta dress that Louise had chosen. Jane is actually surprised that Louise would pick such a low cut dress in the front for her date with Cody. Jane has tried to make it clear to Louise that she loves Cody. Perhaps Louise has finally decided to stop insisting that she belongs with Buck instead of with Cody.
Jane reaches around her back to button the dress at the neckline. She delicately unruffled the front of the dress with her hands. She takes a deep breath to calm her nerves. Cody is the first man she’ll have ever spent the night with. Cody isn’t exactly what she had pictured for herself during the many discussions she had with her Papa about men.
“Men can be so exasperating! Why is it that they think they know every thing there is to know about life? Why do they have such nasty tempers?”
Her Papa had laughed at her questions concerning men. “There are some men who think they are Gods gift to a woman.”
“What exactly does that mean?”
“Well, they usually regard themselves as very handsome, rugged and tough. Some men simply believe they can, all alone, fight of the entire Lakota Nation!”
“What do Indians have to do with the way men behave?”
Jane remembers how her Papa had just about died laughing at her innocence.
“That was just a figure of speech my daughter. But, there are some men who are ruthless, and quite difficult I would imagine to live with. They lack patience, and their tempers are way above the boiling point. These type of men you are better off distancing yourself from.”
“I haven’t met any other type of man than the type that you just described,” Jane spoke disheartened.
“They are out there. Be patient daughter. You certainly are not ready to be with a man.”
“How will I know when the right man comes into my life?”
“You are full of difficult questions today. Let me see. I suppose the first thing that you might become aware of is that he won’t be able to take his eyes off of you.”
“Papa, most men look at women all the time. I’ve taken notice to how the men can’t pull their eyes off the women who work over at the saloon.”
“That my dear is a totally different kind of look in a man’s eyes. I am referring to the love that you will see in his eyes whenever he glances your way.”
“This will happen?”
“Of course. It will happen when you have grown into a young woman.”
“What else will I notice about the man that I will spend the rest of my life with?”
“He will want to take care of you forever, he will protect you and he will certainly love only you.”
“I still don’t understand how I will know when this man enters my life,” Jane spoke sadly.
“You will know.”
You will know. Those had been her Papa’s finally words on the last talk they had concerning men. She smiles warmly. He had always managed to go around any questions she had on intimacy with a man. He had once told her that when your heart beats more rapidly by the mere sight of him, then you would know that this is the man you will marry.
Jane takes another deep breath. This man is not Cody. When had her life become so muddled? “It really doesn’t matterrrr…..”
Jane’s words are muffled together when a hand reaches around to her face and covers her mouth!
Jane begins to struggle. But, her captor is much stronger then she. Amongst her attempts to struggle free from her captor’s hold on her, she manages to get in a few kicks, but his hold is still too strong on her.
He places a bandana over her mouth to avoid listening to her screams of terror. He places her hands behind her back and guides Jane backwards out of Lou’s bedroom.
Jimmy has succumbed to having dinner with Charlene over at Buck’s house. They are both trying their best to eat the over-cooked meal that Charlene did her best to cook.
Charlene watches Jimmy closely as he tries to cut a piece of the tough beef with a knife. “You don’t have to eat it. I know I am a terrible cook.”
“It’s all right Charlene. A little burnt roast never killed anyone. At least I don’t think so.”
“Cooking dinner for you wasn’t the reason I asked you to come here tonight,” Charlene spoke disheartened that Jimmy can’t even consume one tiny morsel of her cooking.
“Why did you insist we come over here to Buck’s home? We could have talked over at Kid and Lou’s.”
“I didn’t want to get in the way over there.”
“What’s going on?”
“Louise is helping Jane get ready for a romantic evening with Cody. You know how much Jane and I like being around one another.”
Jimmy just about chokes on the piece of roast that he is trying his best to chew on. He quickly takes a large gulp of water from the water glass in front of him.
“Are you all right?” Charlene asked, concerned that her cooking is what had made Jimmy choke.
“How can any woman get romantic with Cody?”
“Your guess is as good as mine. I have no idea what Jane sees in Cody after she’s been in love with a man like Buck.”
“I’m sure this temporary insanity of Jane’s isn’t bothering you any,” Jimmy spoke flatly.
“Jane isn’t the right woman for Buck.”
“I suppose you think that you are,” Jimmy spoke amused by Charlene’s lack of tactfulness.
“Jimmy, I didn’t ask you to dinner to discuss Buck, Jane or Cody. I want to discuss the situation with Hannah.”
“I was afraid of that. It would probably be better if we just keep discussing Jane, Buck and Cody.”
“Jimmy, you’ve been sleeping in the same bed with my sister for a couple of months now.”
“Your point is what Charlene?”
“My point is that you’ve got to know that Hannah isn’t a cold-blooded killer.”
“I’m not really sure what the truth is. I don’t want to believe Hannah is capable of murder, but she did have blood stained gloves on her possession.”
“Hannah is telling me that those gloves don’t belong to her.”
“Charlene, they are the same black leather gloves as the unstained ones that I also found in her purse.”
“I’d like to know what your intentions are? Are you going to try and prove that Hannah is innocent, or are you planning on abandoning her when she’s in trouble?”
“I’m going to help Hannah, but unfortunately there isn’t much I can do. Cody is the one that arrested Hannah. You should talk to him.”
“Oh, I plan on having a talk with Cody about his obsessive behavior where his investigation is concerned. Cody tried to pin these murders first on Buck claiming he had a witness that saw Buck commit murder.”
“Yeah. Well we all know why Cody falsely arrested Buck. With Hannah there’s no hidden agenda. Unless of course you know something that I don’t,” Jimmy spoke flatly.
“What about the fact that Cody hasn’t been able to solve these murders? What if he’s accusing Hannah just to have someone to blame?”
“Well, don’t take this wrong, but if Hannah isn’t really the killer then there is bound to be another murder. That is ultimately what freed Buck. Cody was pretty determined to have Buck take the blame for something he didn’t do. But, when another murder took place, Cody had no choice but to let Buck go. The same thing could happen with Hannah.”
“I won’t interrupt Cody’s intimate evening with Jane, but tomorrow you can bet that I will have a few choice words for Mister Cody.”
Jimmy stands up from his chair. “I’m calling it a night. Good luck with getting Hannah freed.”
The evening is as pitch black as a coal mine as a horse gallops steadily along a dirt road. The only sound beside an owl hooting from far away, are the echoing sounds of the horse hooves thumping against the dirt road. The horse veers into a sparsely forested area. The horse travels at a walking pace through the woods for about fifty feet until a cave is within sight up ahead. The hands on the reins pull back for the horse to stop completely.
Jane, who is sitting a top the horse, is trying her best to mumble her disapproval through the tightly tied bandana. The warmth of her captor’s body leaves her as she feels him dismount his horse. His warmth had felt familiar to her, but she is sure that she doesn’t know her captor on a personal level. Jane is sure that she has been kidnapped to bring more ruination to the family who lives on Kid and Buck’s ranch. She suspects that her captor is none other than Jesse James!
Jane feels the warmth of his hands reach around her waist as he helps her down off the horse. He hesitatingly unties her hands from behind her back. As soon as Jane’s hands are free she works quickly to remove the bandana that is around her mouth.
“I demand you take me back to the ranch!” Jane spoke with authority as she finally slips off the bandana that has covered her eyesight for the past hour.
Jane throws the bandanas to the ground and stares up into the smiling eyes of her captor!
“Buck!” Jane hollered as she brings her hand up to slap him, but Buck is too quick for her. He is able to block Jane’s slap that would have connected with his face, by grabbing gently onto her wrist.
Buck swings Jane up over his good shoulder and carries her kicking and screaming into the cave. He grimaces in pain as he puts Jane back down on her feet.
“Are you all right?” Jane asked sincerely, worried that she may have done damage to his healing wound.
“Yeah. You’re just too rough on me.”
Jane hadn’t really heard Buck’s reply. She can’t believe her own eyes as she gazes around the inside of the cave. All around the cave there are cream and white candles of different sizes burning incandescently and giving the cave a passionate romantic glow. Jane also sees that there is a fire burning in the fire pit helping to keep the luminous cave filled with warmth.
Jane simply can’t believe what she is seeing. She tries to think to earlier this evening, but her mind has gone completely blank. The only memory of tonight is that Buck had kidnapped her and brought her to this cave with one thing on his mind for her. There are just so many mysterious things about him that she is unaware of. Jane gazes back into Buck’s eyes that are overflowing with love for her. She remembers her Papa’s words. The man you will marry won’t be able to ever take his eyes off of you. “Louise, she’s in on this with you, isn’t she?”
“It was Lou’s idea for me to kidnap you. The cave is my idea,” Buck spoke softly.
Jane can’t possibly make herself be angry with him. She can only smile at the extreme ways Buck will go through to show her just how much he loves her.
“I figure Cody once ruined an evening that we had planned for romance. I’m simply returning the favor.”
Jane becomes disappointed at his admittance that he didn’t do this for their love, but rather because Buck wanted revenge. “Is that all this is about, revenge?” Jane asked referring to all the candles that are making her feel intimate and seductive toward the man standing before her.
Buck doesn’t answer Jane’s question. He isn’t sure how he should answer her question. Buck had noticed the sad look in Jane’s eyes when he had told her that he was just paying Cody back for all the hardships he had made him endure. Perhaps Jane cares more than she’s saying.
“Why did you do all this? Jane asked not wanting to believe that Buck only did this because he’s looking to mess up Cody’s night with her.
“You don’t know?” Buck asked disheartened that perhaps all his efforts have not made Jane realize just how much he loves her.
“No.” Jane spoke softly.
Buck is a bit scarred to lie out his feelings for Jane to stomp on again if she so chooses. But, he rationalizes that he didn’t kidnap Jane and make this cave romantic for the both of them, to at least not try to make her see that they belong together. Buck takes a few steps toward Jane to close the distance between them!
“I did this for us,” Buck spoke gasping a deep breath before he can continue to tell Jane how much he loves her. “Before you commit your life to Cody, I want the chance to make you realize just how much I love you,” Buck spoke the words trembling from his lips.
Buck forgets about his sore ribs as he leans into Jane, and only ends up making Jane nervous when he grimaces loudly from pain.
Jane lets her guard down and shows Buck how much she really does care about him. She takes his hand in her hand to calm him. “Are you all right?”
“Yeah. I guess they’re still a bit sore.”
“I know for a fact that you weren’t suppose to be riding yet.”
“Well, I couldn’t hardly kidnap you and then make you walk to this cave. That wouldn’t have been very romantic.”
Jane smiles warmly at his romantic, loving nature. “So it is romance that is on your mind.”
Jane gazes up into the depths of Buck’s deep brown eyes. A woman solely raised him. Buck instinctively knows how a woman’s emotions work. That is one characteristic about Buck that Jane loves. He is always in tune to her needs, her wants, and her desires even before his own.
“And in my heart,” Buck spoke, as he lowers his mouth to kiss Jane’s parted soft lips that are waiting eagerly for him.
Jane welcomes Buck’s kiss! She makes no attempt to separate herself from him. Instead of acting like a woman who is disgusted by his Indian blood, Jane encircles her arms around Buck’s neck. With Jane’s admittance to wanting him, Buck encloses the distance between their bodies by grasping onto Jane tightly and pulling her body to his!
Jane releases her arms from around his neck, and runs her hands down his back feeling the strength of his muscles, until she has her hands resting on his hips. She pulls Buck’s hips to her own hips! When Jane hears soft moans of desire uttering from Buck’s lips, she brings her hands up to unbutton his shirt!
Buck leaves the comfort of Jane’s arms. He takes her hand in his and guides her gently over to the bedrolls by the fire pit!
Jane doesn’t wait for Buck to make the next move. She proceeds to take his vest off and tosses it casually to the ground. Jane then pulls his shirt out from his trousers, and continues to unbutton it where she had left off. Jane notices that Buck is watching her every move with inquisitive eyes. It’s no wonder with the many ways she has hurt him lately that he wouldn’t wonder why all of a sudden she can’t wait to get his clothes off of him!
Once Jane has his shirt completely unbuttoned, she pulls the shirt from his body and quickly disperses of it onto the ground with his vest! Jane gazes into his dark eyes and she witnesses the familiar look of desire and love for her in them. Jane reaches up to his sensual mouth to continue her assault on his senses! She kisses Buck until they are both breathless!
Jane allows their onslaught of kissing to subside. She leans into his chest, and is pleased to hear the rapid beating of his heart. The bandages are gone now, and Buck is only left with a wound that has healed over, but is still pinkish in color. Most of the evidence of his bruising has disappeared. Jane closes her eyes against his warm flesh. She doesn’t want to think about her almost losing him tonight. Jane just wants to think about him, and how she has yearned a long time for this night to happen.
Jane assaults Buck’s chest with tiny kisses and nips of his flesh! She runs her mouth over each of his nipples, causing Buck to moan softly with pleasure. Jane feels the quivering of his legs! She knows that she has this incredible power over him. She has assaulted Buck’s body so many times, that she is really surprised that he just didn’t bed any woman to simply relieve the built up frustration of not being able to make love to her. But, of course Jane is elated that Buck is not that kind of man. When Buck gives his heart to a woman, she becomes the only woman he loves, and wants!
Buck gently raises Jane’s head back up so he can look into her eyes. He is hoping to see the same love in her eyes for him that he has in his eyes for her. Buck can’t help but feel afraid that Jane might abandon their lovemaking again. She has brought him to such tremendous heights of entrancement only to take the physical pleasure and the emotional sensations away just as quickly as she had given them to him. Buck is sure his body and his heart can’t go through another battering of passion and then only to be left unsatisfied physically and emotionally because Jane decides that she doesn’t want to be intimate with him!
Jane understands the fear Buck must be feeling just about right now. Each time she has assaulted Buck they have made it a little further in the progression toward making love. But, each time someone has put an abrupt halt to their lovemaking! The last time, she had taken Buck’s shirt off and immediately ran from his bedroom frightened by the bandages and bruising on his chest. Buck’s need for reassurance that she won’t stop their lovemaking captivates her.
“I love you. If we don’t stop this right now, I can’t promise you that I will be able to if we should continue,” Buck spoke his voice cracking with emotion.
Jane cups his face in her trembling hands. “I love you. I want to show you just how much I do love you.”
Buck doesn’t need any further encouragement. He undoes her hair so that her soft tresses flow freely against her supple skin. He begins another assault on Jane’s already swollen lips! Jane feels the extreme heat coming from Buck’s body! She melts into him causing a loud moan to escape from within him.
Buck continues to kiss Jane passionately as he fumbles with the back buttons of her dress. When he has them all undone, he halts the kiss between them. Buck, gazing into Jane’s passion filled eyes takes the shoulders of her dress and unhurriedly slips the dress from her arms!
Jane feels her body about to explode when his hands seductively caress her shoulders and arms as he pulls her arms out of the sleeves.
Buck takes the dress that is now laying on Jane’s waistline, and gives it a slight tug. The dress willingly cascades to the ground! Buck takes Jane’s hand in his and helps Jane to step out of the mound of emerald fabric.
Buck’s exquisitely dark eyes tell Jane all she needs to know about how much he needs and wants her! She is now clad only in one under slip. She had wanted to make it real easy for Cody to get to her flesh so that she wouldn’t be submitted to Cody’s prolonged, annoying touch of her skin. Buck’s eyes roam sensuously over her body! Jane grasps his hands to pull his warm body back close to hers. His hands on her almost bare back have Jane reveling in the excitement that is yet to come. Buck’s touch is unlike Cody’s. Where Cody’s touch makes her feel cold and wanting to put clothes on instead of taking them off, Buck’s touch feels like a flame that is burning her flesh!
Once back in Jane’s arms, Buck resumes the assault on her eager lips. Buck is so lost to anything going on outside the cave. All of his senses are drowning in a pool of Jane’s love. His mind can’t even comprehend anything at this moment except the deep hunger he has to make love to her!
Jane is totally aware of what Buck needs right at this moment! He has one thing on his mind, and the onslaught of many passionate moments between them has taken its toll on his body, his mind and mostly his heart. Jane intends on repairing all the damage that she has caused tonight in this cave!
Buck continues to kiss her passionately. Her sensuous moans of pleasure are driving Buck over the edge toward madness. He lowers his mouth down to the smoothness of her neck, exploring every inch of her skin.
Jane slips her hands down to Buck’s trousers! She boldly unfastens his gun belt, allowing it to drop with a thud onto the ground of the cave.
Buck senses what it is Jane is about to do. He halts the attack he had been relishing on her neck. He looks deeply into her eyes and sees a mischievous glimmer in them.
When Jane brings her hands back up from undoing his gun belt, she glides her hands over his hardened manhood! The feel of him as her body aching out of control for him! Upon her actions, Buck inhales sharply. His moans of desire let Jane know that she has Buck right where she wants him. He won’t be able to back down from all the sensations she is giving him tonight. This time Jane is secure in the knowledge that this man will make love to her tonight.
Buck feels as if he can’t wait one second longer to make them one! He takes the under slip and maneuvers it off Jane’s shoulders, down past her breasts, and then the slip simply glides gently off the rest of her body! Jane allows Buck the time to visually take in her body. Buck gazes over her and then he pulls Jane’s body close to his!
“You are so beautiful,” Buck whispered as he places tender kisses down her neck.
Buck wraps his one arm around her back to hold Jane close to him as he sensuously arouses each of her breasts until Jane can no longer stand the build up of pleasure Buck is unleashing onto her!
“Buck,” Jane whimpered softly. She pleads with him to make her, his. Jane can’t wait another moment longer to devour him! She reaches her hands back down to his trousers to pull them down! She is having a little trouble getting them off of him with Buck still engaged in driving her over the edge of insanity.
“Buck,” Jane spoke pleading with him to stop long enough for her to get his pants off of him.
Buck obeys Jane’s plea. He understands that the two of them can’t continue with his trousers still on him. Buck had just wanted to make Jane crazy with desire for him. He doesn’t want any repeat performances of her exiting before they can accomplish making love. Buck kisses her soft lips, but Jane pulls away from his kiss! For a second passion is replaced by fear in Buck’s eyes.
Jane takes her hands and places them on the inside of his trousers. “These need to come off,” Jane spoke softly as she tugs at his pants to come down! She lowers her body while pulling his trousers and long johns down to his ankles. Buck steps out of his pants. Instead of leaving his pants in a heap near him, Jane tosses them far from the both of them. If Buck’s modesty should get the best of him, Jane wants to make sure that it wouldn’t be easy for him to retrieve his pants.
On the way back up to greet his lips; Jane brushes her mouth lightly against the inner area of Buck’s thighs! She is pleased to hear his intake of breath! Jane then takes notice to Buck’s struggle to stay standing. She grasps her arms around his legs to quiet the quivering of his thighs, but her strength doesn’t help him much! Jane lightly brushes a trail of kisses up his abdomen and chest until she once again is assaulting his swollen lips!
Buck stops the kiss and buries his face in the warmth of her tresses. “Jane, please,” Buck spoke with labored breath.
Jane can feel the heat of his breath on her bare skin. She searches for his lips to resume the pleasure that she wants to give him. She makes the mistake of pressing her aroused body full force into Buck! His moans come in loud gasps as she continues her passionate assault on his body! With her arms encircled around him, Jane takes it upon her self to begin a backward decent onto the bedroll behind her.
While still kissing one another senseless, Jane finds her body lying on a bedroll with Buck’s very aroused body above her! Jane deepens their kiss. She has waited too long for this man to satisfy the yearning that she has for him and only him!
Jane can feel the throbbing of Buck’s body! She presses his buttocks down onto her! Buck can’t endure anymore-unsatisfied encounters with Jane, and with the consent that she has given him to make love to her, he finally makes them one!
Jane tries clutching onto any loose skin of Buck’s, but she can’t find any. She has finally given her body to the man who invades her sleep every night! His lovemaking is causing her body to react in a frenzied rage! Buck is her first, and she is overwhelmed with all the love that he is bestowing onto her. Buck deepens their lovemaking as he kisses any part of her flesh that is within his grasp! She embraces him tightly and claws her nails into the flesh on his backside! With every movement upward that Jane makes, loud moans of fulfilled pleasure escape from his lips. Jane wants to make damn sure this first time together drives Buck back to her every night for the rest of their lives!
Louise and Kid are stationed on the porch of their home. The late night air has a strong hold on romance, and Cody who is standing on the ground in front of them ranting and raving about Jane being missing, had interrupted a passionate moment between the young married couple.
Louise has a difficult time holding onto her laughter as she watches Cody become a maniac over the knowledge that Jane had departed the ranch to avoid their planned evening of romance.
“I know that you know where she’s at Louise!” Cody hollered loud enough to have Rachel and Teaspoon walking across the ranch to see what all the fuss is about.
“Kid, have you seen Buck? He’s not over at the house,” Teaspoon asked with concern, but sounding like a question he is suppose to ask to get under Cody’s skin even a little more about Buck and Jane.
Cody’s face becomes red hot with embarrassment. “Where are they, Louise?”
“I told you Cody, that I have no idea where Jane has run off to. But, I can sure tell you one thing. If I were waiting for a hot tempered man like you to spend an evening of romance with, well I’d plum run away too,” Louise spoke with a snicker.
“Buck’s horse,” Cody spoke as if he’s just discovered that if Buck’s horse is missing than Buck is behind Jane’s disappearance.
Cody runs full force to the barn. The rest of his family stands back and watches the blonde man trying to keep control of his hysterical behavior.
Jimmy had heard Cody’s obnoxious whining, and so he walked on over to Kid’s to see what has Cody in such a rage.
Jimmy takes a stance next to Teaspoon. “What’s the matter with Cody?” Jimmy asked flatly.
“Jane and Buck have disappeared,” Louise spoke with a smile that one gets when they are proud of an accomplishment achieved successfully.
“Oh. You wouldn’t happen to know where they are and what they are doing, would you Lou?” Jimmy asked while trying to control his own smile.
“Whatever they’re doing, I’m sure they’re doing it together,” Lou spoke while all her family laughs a bit until they hear Cody’s hollers from inside the barn.
Cody comes rushing out of the barn at full speed back to the group of people who are protecting Buck.
“Mark my word when I find the two of them, Buck will pay dearly if he’s laid one hand on Jane,” Cody spoke harshly.
“You might as well give it up Cody. If Buck and Jane are together, you can bet they are in one another’s arms.” Jimmy looks around at the rest of his family. “I don’t know about the rest of you, but I for one think it’s about time they’ve found one another,” Jimmy spoke calmly with a smirk on his face.
“Why you!” Cody spoke as he goes after Jimmy, but Teaspoon and Kid manage to hold the blonde man back before he can attack.
“What’s a matter, Cody? You sure dished out a lot of grief to Buck, you can’t take it when Buck gives it right back to you?”
“I’m warning you Jimmy. Shut-up!” Cody spoke his anger causing Teaspoon and Kid to take a tighter hold on the man.
The candles had all been blown out, but the fire in the pit shown enough of a glow on the two lovers sleeping exhaustingly in one another’s arms.
Jane smiles warmly as a sleeping Buck pulls her body closer to him. She gazes up into his sleep-hidden eyes. He truly showed her tonight just how much he loves her. The first time they made love was with such intensity that Jane couldn’t imagine his loving could get anymore feverish than that! But, Buck had made love to her a second and third time, and with each time their lovemaking had been more powerful!
Jane reaches to his peacefully sleeping face and tucks a loose strand of his dark hair back behind his ear. How she wants for him to awaken and make passionate love to her again. She had given her body to Buck completely not holding back any of the love that she feels for him. Jane blinks a few tears out of her eyes. She truly loves him.
Jane kisses his nose, and listens to him moan softly in his sleep. At least for tonight he is safe in her arms. There are no outlaws that will intrude on this night and shoot him down. Tonight Buck belongs to her.