Love in Country (De La Fuente Family 4)

“Sarah…my Sarah,” he whispers, his voice breaking. “I’ll explain about Rae, but please tell me I haven’t lost you? Not after waiting so long to have you.”

“I want to believe that there is an us,” I admit. “The images can’t be unseen, Aiden.” I try to step away but Aiden steps with me, his hand flexing on my stomach.

“Let me explain.” Aiden lets go of me but takes my hand and intertwines his fingers with mine.

He tugs me into the barn, ignoring his brother Diego, and shoves me into the small office. The door closes behind us.

I open my mouth to speak but Aiden silences me when he stands so close. He cups my face in his hands and gazes into my eyes. “Don’t be upset. I hate that you saw them without knowing anything about her, and I guess me…She’s only a friend, Sarah.”

Aiden drops his forehead to mine and I feel him tremble when my hands touch his sides.

“I’ve been friends with Rae for around ten years. She’s like another sister to me. That’s all she’s ever been and all she will ever be. She’s an attractive woman, but I’ve never been sexually attracted to her.” He smiles. “And since I’ve met you my eyes have most definitely been only on you.”

He k

isses my nose and slowly kisses my lips. “I should have told you about her, but I’m just so used to her being with me at these parties as a warning to other women to stay clear. It didn’t even dawn on me to tell you…I’m sorry for that.”

My body melts into liquid fire when Aiden takes control and kisses me. His lips are soft yet demanding, and when he kisses down my neck and nuzzles a breast through my shirt I’m about to come on the spot…but we can’t do this. “Aiden,” I moan as his lips caress back over mine.

“I know.” He sighs heavily. “God, I’ve missed you so much, Sarah.” His hand strokes down through my hair to land on my bottom. “So damn much. It killed me when you stopped talking to me.”

Pulling back, Aiden cups my face again, and his forehead drops to mine. His beautiful eyes blaze with love.

“You’re the only one I want, Sarah, and I’m so damn sorry that I hurt you.” He exhales. “There is so much shit out there about Rae and me that I’ve learned over the years to ignore it. It’s all speculation and it’s never interfered with my life before now. I should have realized and I’m sorry that I’m an idiot and didn’t think.”

His body surrounds me, his hips gently rock against mine. “I love you.” He breathes seconds before his lips claim mine.

His taste is so familiar, and I want nothing more than to get lost in him and trust in what he has just told me, but there are questions niggling at me.

Aiden slowly raises his head when he realizes that I’ve stopped participating in the kiss, and as he watches closely his eyes fill with sadness.

His hands drop away and he steps back, but I follow and bring his face close to mine. “I still love you, Aiden...I just don’t understand how she can be your friend for so long and yet Diego doesn’t know who she is, or why you brought her home with you. Please help me to understand your connection to her.”

Aiden grips my hips and holds me steady. “Until yesterday my family knew of her and have only spoken on the phone to her when she’s called home for me. However, this is the first time they have met her, apart from Eric who met her once in Europe. She’s here in Great Falls now because she’s part of the commercial I’m in that will be filmed soon on the farm.”

I offer him a small smile when I realize he’s telling me the truth and lean in to kiss his waiting lips.

“Can we please talk to each other before anything like this happens between us again?” I request.

He smiles and lets out a huge sigh of relief. Kissing my forehead, his hands grasp my shoulders. “I promise.” He kisses me quickly. “The commercial is going to take a week or two to film, so things are going to be crazy around here…just remember you’re mine, Sarah.” His eyes darken.

“Hmm,” I step closer and rub against his body. “Greg told me you know about him.”

His eyes go alight with pleasure. “Oh, yeah. I sleep better at night knowing you really are mine.”

“I’ve been yours since the minute our eyes met,” I admit.

“That you have.” Aiden grabs my bottom and lifts me into his aroused body. “I’ve lived on nothing but memories of you for these past few weeks. Every morning I wake up rock hard and have to take care of myself in the shower.” He smirks, and traces along my neck with his nose. “All I had to do was remember your mouth wrapped around me and I’d come.”

He rocks his hips into me and my core begs for more.

“That turns you on?” He chuckles. “The thought of me stroking my cock while remembering the best blow job in history.”

I moan at his words and the image I now have in my head of him touching his own flesh, when he adds, “I bet if I put my mouth between your thighs you would come hard…and taste so good…”

“Oh God, Aiden…you have to stop,” I beg, except my hands are tugging his shirt out of his jeans, and I sigh when he shudders at the touch of my fingers on his skin.

“Babe,” Aiden groans and thrusts against me. “So responsive.”