Then he knelt down beside her and hurriedly took off her clothes.
Silkenly naked, Kaylene ran her hands across Fire Thunder’s muscular chest, then down lower, across his flat belly.
She then wove her fingers through the shock of hair between his thighs, where his manhood thrust out away from it, powerful, thick, and long.
“Come to me,” Kaylene whispered, guiding him over her, so that he straddled her.
She opened her legs to him and closed her eyes in ecstasy when, with one powerful shove, he was inside her.
Kaylene wrapped her legs around his waist and moved rhythmically with him. She twined her fingers through his hair and brought his lips down to one of her breasts.
She sucked in a wild breath of rapture when his tongue circled the nipple. Then his teeth nipped at it until she felt as though she would die with pleasure.
He licked her breasts with his tongue. He licked and sucked every inch of them.
Then he caught her throat in his teeth, groaning as she lifted her body to meet the rhythm of his thrusts.
She responded to him, heart and soul, his lovemaking leaving her breathless when it was over.
“Why must it end so quickly?” she whispered as she cuddled close to him.
“So that we will leave some for tomorrow and all the tomorrows after that,” Fire Thunder said, stroking her tender flesh between her legs, where she still throbbed from the aftermath of having flown with him to paradise.
Then she giggled when she felt something else on the bed with them. Midnight leapt at her feet and stretched out, purring.
“I fear someone feels neglected of late,” Kaylene said, glancing down at Midnight whose green eyes were watching her. She moved to her knees and crawled to Midnight. “My sweet pet, I hope you aren’t missing the cheer of the carnival crowds. Never again will I ride you.”
“Why not just one performance?” Fire Thunder said, sitting up in bed, resting his back against the headboard. “For me? In this room? No one but us will be the wiser.”
Kaylene looked from Midnight back to Fire Thunder. “I don’t know,” she murmured.
“Just this once, Kaylene, so that I can see the beauty of it,” Fire Thunder said, giving her a look she could not say no to.
“Oh, all right,” she said, sighing. “But only this once, mind you. My pet is now just that, nothing more. He deserves to be loved only for himself, not for the money he earned for my fath—for John Shelton’s carnival.”
She went to a chair, over which hung Midnight’s leash. She urged Midnight to the floor. She talked to him soothingly and sweetly as she put the leash in place around his neck.
“This is the last time, sweetie,” she whispered in Midnight’s ear. “But since it is, let’s give him a show to remember!”
Having never rode naked on Midnight before, Kaylene felt wicked climbing on his back now without a stitch of clothes on.
But knowing that Fire Thunder’s eyes were on her, and no longer at all bashful in front of him without clothes, she took the leash, straightened her back, and gave Midnight a slight nudge in the sides with her knees and rode him proudly up and down the full length of the room.
She closed her eyes, shivering inside when she suddenly realized that she missed the limelight. She could not help but remember the applause, the cheers, and the looks of admiration, as she and Midnight had rode around the circle of people.
She now realized just how much she had loved the attention. Truly loved it. Yes, only now, did she know for certain just how much.
Tears streamed down her cheeks. She lowered her eyes and climbed from Midnight’s back. She went to Fire Thunder and flung herself into his arms. “My Lord, how I do miss it,” she cried. “I didn’t think that I would but, Fire Thunder, I do. What am I to do? I could even feel Midnight’s response. He loved it as much as me!”
“Too often in life one has to give up that which they love, to have something they love more,” he whispered, stroking her back. “Tell me you love me more than anything, Kaylene. I need to hear it.”
Kaylene sniffled, swallowed back a sob that became lodged in her throat, then looked him in the eye. “Oh, I do love you so much,” she whispered. “Way more than anything else in my life, ever.”
“So you see?” Fire Thunder said, laughing softly. “That wasn’t so hard to figure out, was it?” She giggled and leaned into his tender embrace. “You are everything to me, and more,” she murmured.
When Midnight came and placed a paw on her leg, she reached over and stroked it. He, too, would learn to take from life the best part of it, and Kaylene knew now, that for them both, it was to be with the Kickapoo.
Then her heart sank when she again thought of Running Fawn. She eased from Fire Thunder’s embrace. “What of Running Fawn?” she asked softly. “What is going to happen to her?”