idea how that makes me feel?” she asked.
“Tell me,” he said.
“It makes me want you to touch me all over, and feel your skin on mine. It makes me want you to make love to me.”
He removed her chemise and pantaloons and pulled her to him. “How’s this,” he asked.
“Wonderful,” she breathed heavily
He picked her up and placed her gently on the bed, then removed his trousers and lay beside her. He looked into those deep green eyes, and said, “You are absolutely beautiful, Amanda. Even more so than I imagined, and believe me, I imagined a lot.” He cupped her breast, and took it into his mouth. She put her hand on his pushing more into his mouth, as his hand trailed down her belly to her entrance.
It entered. She gasped and moved beneath him. He felt her muscles tense as she lost control. When the rush was over, she said, “Make love to me, Rance.”
They each enjoyed the delights of the other several times that afternoon and evening. Then they slept.
Rance awakened first. Propped on an elbow, he watched her sleep. She moved, then stretched luxuriously, and yawned. She opened her eyes and was greeted with the sight of him watching her. “That was wonderful,” she said. “I feel like a real woman.”
He toyed with a nipple.
“You had better stop that,” she said.
“Or?” he asked.
“Or you’ll have to make love to me again.”
“I’m not stopping,” he said.
“Can’t say I didn’t warn you,” she said, and pulled him to her.
Afterward, he said, “I guess we had better get up and get started,” he said.
“Do we have to?” she asked.
“We promised our daughter we’d be there early. It will be past early before long. We have to go to your school too.”
“Well, if you insist,” she said, and got out bed and padded away to do her morning ablutions.
He watched her lovely backside as she walked away, showing no signs of modesty.
“Amanda?”
She looked back over her shoulder. “Yes?”
“I like that side too.”
She laughed, a throaty chuckle. This is going to be fun .
As he looked at her, Rance thought, how did I get so lucky?
chapter Sixteen
Going Home
The Taylor home Tuesday…
“Ready to go home, Abby?” asked Rance.
“Is Mama going?”
“Yes, she is,” he replied.
“Okay.”
“I think if I’d said no, she wouldn’t have gone,” Rance said. “She is definitely your little girl,” he told Amanda.
“And a better little girl a mother could not ask for.
Albert and Ellie took them to the railroad depot. Rance turned the luggage and trunk over to the Baggage Clerk.
He picked Abby up and carried her to the platform. “Tell me when you see the train coming, baby.”
“I’m not a baby. I’m a big girl now,” Papa.”
“You’ll always be my baby,” he said.
“There’s the train, Papa, I see it,” she said.
The big engine came huffing into the station, scattering cinders onto everything and everyone. With a puff of steam and a long sigh, it came to a stop. No one got off, and five minutes later, the conductor called, “Allll aboard.”
The mother and daughter exchanged tearful goodbyes, and Amanda hugged her father and kissed him on the cheek. “Bye Papa. Thank you for giving me the courage to do this.”
Albert shook hands with Rance, and said, “You take good care of my girl.”
“I will, Albert. You need not worry. This isn’t goodbye forever; we’ll be seeing you again.”
“We’d better get aboard,” Rance said. He turned to Ellie. “Thank you for giving me your daughter. I will take good care of her. I promise you that.”
“I know you will, son. I know you will. God go with you,” Ellie said.
They hurried to the steps of their car, as they stepped onto the car platform, the conductor picked up his step, waved toward the front of the train and stepped aboard himself. The train began to move and their journey began.
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