Page 59 of Sanctuary

The town leaders are wary, but we find a few others who say they’re willing to help.

The raid won’t be for a few more weeks since we need to wait for enough reinforcements to make it a doable effort. Maria leaves the following day to start visiting other communities, and that gives Aidan and I a window of time to tackle a few more jobs. We make plans to leave the next morning.

I’m excited. About all of it. And about spending another night with Aidan, sleeping in his arms.

I start to believe that this could be what my life looks like from here on out.

Our first stop for James is a small settlement an eight-hour hike away. It’s basically a farm with some houses built around it. Fifty or sixty total residents there.

I actually suggest we make the stops in a different order—starting with the farthest away—but Aidan is insistent on heading here first, and it doesn’t really matter to me.

So we hike to the farm settlement and arrive late in the afternoon. They gratefully accept the sugar and dried fish Sharpsburg sent and give us jarred jams and dressings in return.

Since it’s so late in the day when we get there, they let us spend the night, providing us a small cabin on the outskirts ofthe farm that they must use as a guesthouse since it’s set up with provisions.

I’m pleased with the lodgings. We were thinking we might have to camp, and when we spend the night in the outdoors, sex is off the table. There’s too much risk exposed at night, so one of us always has to stay on guard.

In a house, however, especially one in a settled community, we can have sex.

I never thought I’d be the kind of person who’d get so excited about sex, and I always shook my head at women who acted like it was a priority in life.

But every evening I’m excited about going to bed with Aidan, touching and being touched by him, hearing what he says to me, feeling so safe and so cherished. The physical pleasure is only a part of it for me and not even the most important thing. The emotions are what really get me going.

That night, we’re all alone in the cabin, and we feel far enough away from the rest of the community to have real privacy. I wash up as best I can and brush my hair and teeth before I put on the one gown I own.

I climb into bed and wait as Aidan takes off his clothes and washes up. He doesn’t bother putting anything on since we’ll be taking it right back off. So he’s naked as he climbs under the sheet with me.

He pulls me over to kiss me. “Hello, love,” he murmurs.

For some reason, the greeting makes me giggle. I comb my fingers through his hair. “Hello.”

“Very nice of them to let us stay here.” He’s already got his hands under my gown, rubbing my butt and the back of my thighs.

“Yes. And very convenient for us since we get to do this instead of camping.”

“Indeed. This is entirely preferable.”

I reach between us and feel his cock. It’s already partially erect. Given his age, he’s really quite virile. It takes him almost no time to get hard.

Since I’m energetic this evening, I push him over onto his back and kiss my way down his body until my face is hovering his groin.

He stifles a groan. Shifts his hips. “You teasing me, sweetheart?”

“Maybe.” I give him a sly smile and then play with the head of his cock with my tongue.

He jerks slightly, like he’s restraining a thrust.

When I lower my head farther, licking a line up the underside of his shaft and then taking the head in my mouth and sucking it, he brushes my hair back, gathering it into one hand so he can hold it, keep it out of my face.

“I’m not going to last long like this, love,” he says thickly, his hips starting to rock into the motion of my sucking.

I let him slip out of my mouth and meet his gaze. His face is deeply flushed, and his eyes are hot and hungry. “That’s okay. You don’t have to last.”

“It will take me a while to get going again afterward.”

“That’s okay.” I kiss his belly. Move lower to mouth his balls very gently. Then say, “We have all night.”

He groans uninhibitedly when I take his cock in my mouth again. This time, I try to remember all my skills. I relax my throat muscles enough to take him deeper without triggering my gag reflex. I bob my head, sucking rhythmically. Hard.

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