Chapter 41

"Stand still and let me do this, darlin'," Zach said as he began stroking his hands over her body.
He soaped every inch of her, from shoulders to hips and down to her feet, bending to rub the lather into her ankles and feet. He skimmed over the freshly shaved skin of her mound, barely touching her slit where she could already feel cream gathering again. Then he turned her around and did the same with her back, letting his fingers linger in the cleft of her buttocks and the insides of her thighs. By the time he was finished her blood was heated again and her pussy was clenching with need.
She wrapped her fingers around his wrists and tried to force his hand down between her legs but he just gave her another of those wicked smiles.
"Now my turn," he told her, handing her the plastic bottle.
Maddie was determined to torment him as much as he had her. Standing on tiptoe, she reached his shoulders and his muscular arms, then moved over his chest, spending extra time rubbing his nipples and watching his eyes darken with need. Arousing him this way gave her a wonderful feeling of power and she resolved to do it more often. If she had the chance. She spread the lather over his groin, swirling it through his pubic hair, then drawing it lightly over the length of his shaft.
His stomach muscles tightened in response and his hips shifted forward ever so slightly. When she began rubbing the lather into his balls he threw his head back under the spray and a slight moan rumbled from his chest.
Turning him around, she paid equal attention to his back but when she reached his buttocks, she added a little something new. Pouring more soap into her hand, she stroked the cleft between the rigid muscles. Then, without warning, she pressed one of her small fingers against his anus just enough to slide the tip inside and wiggle it around.
"Jesus, Maddie." His voice was tight with his effort at control. "You're playing with fire there."
"Good. I want to make you hot. I want to make you come harder than ever." She pressed her mouth to his wet skin. "I want to watch you come all over me."
She reached around to grip his cock as she said the words and was rewarded to feel it jump in her grasp. As she slowly worked her finger further into his ass, she moved her hand in a steady up and down slide on his penis, rubbing the head on the up strokes, reaching down to his balls on the down strokes.
Zach's whole body was taut as she worked him, pushing him closer and closer to the edge. He groaned and thrust his hips back and forth, head thrown back as the shower beat down on them both. She could tell when he was nearly at the tipping point but the way his body stiffened and a guttural sound rolled from his mouth.
"Now, Zach," she said. "Come now. For me."
And he did. She moved her body so his semen shot onto her breasts and her tummy, hot jets as his cock pulsed and pulsed. He gripped the neck of the shower spray to hold himself in place until the last of the spasms died away.
Maddie released him, then cleaned them both up under the hot water.
Zach wrapped his arms around her and dropped his head to her shoulder.
"Damn, Maddie. You took all the starch out of me."
"I hope not." She gave him an impish grin. "I expect to see some stiffening again before long."
He swatted her on the behind, then kissed her wet mouth. "Let's get out of here before we turn into prunes."
When they were dried off, Maddie pulled on a pair of sweats, then rummaged in her parents' old bedroom and found a pair for Zach.
"You and my dad were about the same size," she said as she handed them to him. "These should fit okay. I'm going to make some coffee."
She was standing in the kitchen measuring coffee into the machine when he came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Leave the coffee a minute, darlin'. I think it's time we had that talk you want so badly."
Maddie's stomach clenched. Why did this sound as if she wouldn't like what she was about to hear?
Zach led her into the living room and sat her on the cushions in front of the fire now blazing away again.
"Stay right here," he told her. "Don't move."
She frowned as he disappeared into the utility room, then hurried back with his jacket, tossed it on the floor next to them and sat down opposite her cross-legged. He took one of her hands in his, playing with the fingers.
"It's been a hellish ten years, Maddie," he began. "Not one minute passed that I didn't regret what happened."
"It's okay," she interrupted.
Zach held up a hand. "Let me finish. If I don't get it all out I might lose my nerve." He took a deep breath and let it out. "One thing's for sure, though. I never, ever stopped loving you. Not for a single second. I never thought I'd get a second chance with you. I told you buying the ranch was just a way for me to hold onto a piece of you."