Embraced by Faulkner, Carolyn (books for 8th graders .TXT) 📕

want to do, I’m telling you what you’re going to do, Meagan. You’ve got such big dark circles under your eyes from stress and lack of sleep they’re going to reach your knees any minute.” Barrett’s voice became stern. “I want you to nap this afternoon. We have plenty of time to see all the things we planned.”

She could barely keep her eyes open, but still wanted to argue with him. He pressed his finger to her lips and warned, “Not another word from you, or I’ll send you to bed to cry yourself to sleep with an empty stomach and a sore bottom.”

Lunch was equally as quiet as breakfast had been, and the truth of Meg’s exhaustion shown in her lack of appetite. Finally, he took her barely touched meal away and put it back on the room service tray, leading her by the hand into their bedroom. He stripped her down to nothing with very little protest from her, pulled the shades to darken the room, and tucked her under the sheets. She was asleep before he left the room.

Barrett made some quick phone calls, then joined her, feeling the letdown himself from all that worrying and planning, and Meg was the one who had done the majority of it. It had come off beautifully, and he knew he would have to remember to compliment her on it.

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Several hours later, Meg awoke as something tickled her nose. It was a dark black chest hair whose owner was still fast asleep and snoring loudly. Her husband. She couldn’t quite believe it, but the gold band shone brightly on the third finger of his left hand as it lay upturned and vulnerable next to his dark head on the pillow. Impulsively, she rolled back the sheet to look at him, being extra careful not to wake him. He was a magnificent sight, all round, hard muscles beneath firm skin. She’d never seen him lift weights to maintain his physique, but apparently he didn’t need to. Must be genetic, she thought. His father had looked very much like Barrett, and so did Hayden, so there was the proof.

Heavily muscled chest and arms tapered to a thick but trim waist, the light sprinkling of hair became denser as it reached his hips, then continued darkly down his legs to his ankles. He was tanned, obviously someone who worked outdoors. She could see the occasional white scar, some smaller some bigger. Mandy had told her that he had once been gored much like Larry had earlier this summer, and she could see a ragged, pinkish scar across his flat stomach. Meg could also see that he was almost fully aroused, and wondered if most men slept that way.

Unable to stop herself, she touched him, figuring that if it woke him he wouldn’t be too unhappy about it. She’d wanted to touch him so often it hurt, but it always seemed that he was so intent on her pleasure, he forgot about himself. Meg didn’t really have any ideas about what he might like or not like, so she just let the tips of her fingers lie against his skin and trailed her hand delicately up from the fingers of one hand, across the breadth of his shoulders and down his side. Her touch raised goose bumps, and Barrett moaned and stretched, but didn’t move away.

His eyes opened and he smiled. “That feels soooooo good.”

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It was all the encouragement she needed as he lay back and laced his fingers behind his head, giving her full rein to explore him in her own good time. Meg listened intently to every whimper, every moan, felt every shiver as exquisitely as if her were touching her, instead of vice versa. Barrett was determined to remain still under her tender ministrations, but it wasn’t easy, particularly when she began to concentrate her attention on his groin. He had been erect from the moment he awoke and was now in an almost painful state of arousal. Meg’s soft, tentative hand cupped him, then she wrapped her fingers around him delicately and began to move up and down. It was almost more than he could stand.

“Are you sure you haven’t done this before?” he ground out through clenched teeth.

She didn’t miss a beat, but sounded indignant. “I have not.

You’re the first naked man I’ve seen. I didn’t realize you’d be so soft!”

“Soft? I’m hard as a rock, woman!” it was his turn to sound indignant as he instinctively began to move his hips with the rhythm of her hand.

Meg loved making him react like this, and experimentally bent her head to take him in her mouth very lovingly and slowly, using her tongue to lave over the head of his penis as she settled down on him. Barrett groaned from the depth of his toes and clenched the bedsheets.

“Meg, my love, as much as I want you to continue this, I don’t think I have the patience at this point to let you experiment on me. It’s just too – “

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Meagan moved up to lay on his chest and shake her finger in his face. “See how I feel when I cry and run?”

She quickly found herself flipped underneath him, impaled in one swift movement that left her gasping and Barrett moaning as her warm wetness surrounded him. “I’m not about to run away from you, Sweetheart,” he breathed raggedly. “I’m much more interested in running INTO you,” and he proceeded to prove his point by hooking her legs over his arms, putting her into a