Chapter 24
Lou sat on the porch rocking baby Rider. Buck was teaching Teresa how to ride a horse. Rachel was in the kitchen getting lunch prepared. Jeremiah and Teaspoon were off doing who knows what. Those two were always getting into some kinda mischief. Lou looked down at the sleeping baby in her arms, at just over a month old, it was pretty clear who he was going to favor and it wasn't her. Lou didn't know how she felt about that, she had wanted Rider to look more like her, so she didn't have the constant reminder of the man who had left her, but then Rider was Kid's and it was almost like Kid was still apart of their family. True she had been so heartbroken and furious at him for leaving her, but he was still family. She found herself thinking about the boy she had loved … had that boy really existed? She had always thought he was loyal to a fault, but he had not been loyal to her. Lou looked from the sweet face of her baby to where Buck stood, holding a training lead, as he walked Spirit around the corral, Teresa on its back.
"You know Rider, you're lucky. Not everybody gets such a good daddy like you. Mommy's own daddy was a mean abusive drunk, who was into some pretty shady things. And you're daddy's daddy wasn't a very nice person. But your daddy … he's the best." Lou whispered to her son. "And you know why? Because he chose to be your daddy even though he didn't have too. He'll always be there for you little one, no matter what. Your daddy will love you and protect you with everything he has." Lou's eyes lingered on Buck's form.
Lou licked her lips as she took him in, his sleeves were rolled up to just below his elbows, his shirt had the first three buttons undone. He didn't have on a long john top underneath, so Lou could see his chiseled chest every time the breeze would blow, pushing his shirt open. Lou rubbed her legs together. She longed to be in Buck's embrace, to feel him in her. But the doctor who had come out to check her and the baby right after he was born had said no relations for at least three months, she needed to heal. But Lou felt fine, the birth had been relatively easy. It had only taking a little less than two hours for Rider to be born once her water had broken. According to Emma, Lou had probably been in labor since the day before, just had not realized it, thinking it was only a back ache. She wanted Buck. She wanted to make love to her husband. She wanted everybody to know that he was her husband. Had they not waited long enough?
Buck looked towards the house, he felt eyes on him. He smiled when he caught sight of Lou rocking Rider on the porch. Buck's lips curved up into a lopsided smirk when he saw her biting her lower lip, as she gazed at him. He knew what she was thinking. Buck decided to mess with her some more. His fingers went to his shirt buttons and undid the rest, pulling it from his pants so that it was hanging completely open. He chuckled, when Lou licked her lips, shifting in her seat.
"Buck, can we go out of the corral now?" Teresa asked at that moment.
"You think you can handle Spirit?" Buck asked the young girl.
"Yeah! Can I please take him for a ride, I'll stay near the house?" Teresa asked, a wide smile on her face.
Buck knew Spirit wouldn't throw her, he was well trained. "Alright, but walk him for now."
"Yippee!" Teresa called as Buck opened the gate letting her out, taking the training lead off.
"Not too fast now!" Buck hollered as Teresa kicked Spirit softly in the sides.
"Yes sir." Teresa yelled back slowly down a little into a slow trot.
Buck chuckled as he made his way to the porch and to Lou and the baby. Lou's eyes still lingering on his chest. "See something you like?" Buck asked as he stepped up onto the porch.
Lou looked him up and down, and pursed her lips like she was thinking about it, "eh… I guess you'll do." She teased.
"Oh, if that's the case." Buck said as he began to button his shirt.
"No!" Lou said a little too loudly, her face blushing at her loud outburst.
Buck smirked and unbuttoned the button he had just done. He knelt down in front of Lou, his hands on her ankles, slowly running them up her legs under her skirts, his fingers just brushing her thighs before running back down. "Has it been three months yet?" Buck asked her voice thick with desire.
"Hardly… Rider's not even two months yet." Lou groaned, she was positively aching.
"Why do we have to wait again?" Buck asked, resting his head on her knees as he sat beside her on the ground.
"Doc said I had to heal… but I feel fine. The birth wasn't even that hard." Lou told him.
Buck looked up at her, biting his lower lip for a second, "What if I was really really gentle?"
Lou chuckled softly, "Hmm….no reason we'd have to tell the doc."
Buck grinned, rising to kiss her quickly just as Teresa came back in sight. "Later?"
"Maybe we can sneak off to the swimming hole later, alone." Lou suggested.
"Look forward to it." Buck said huskily, before kissing Lou again.
Buck left Lou sitting there as he went to rein Teresa in. She needed to learn how to take care of a horse after a ride. Lou got up from the rocking chair and carried Rider inside to lay him down to finish his nap while she helped Rachel finish up lunch.
After lunch, Teaspoon took Jeremiah and Teresa into town. And Rachel agreed to watch baby Rider to give the young couple some time alone. Buck saddled Spirit and helped Lou up on to his back before mounting up behind her, his arm around her once again small waist. They rode out to the swimming hole that they had frequented when they rode for the express. It was secluded and unknown to just about everybody but them. The banks were lined with marsh grass and a few weeping willows, a small waterfall was on the backside of the little lake. And behind the waterfall a small cave. This is where Buck took Lou.
Upon arriving at the swimming hole, the two quickly stripped down to just their undergarments and dove in, the water feeling great on such a hot day. Lou laid back in the water and began to float, her bloomers and camisole translucent from the water, were plastered to her skin. Buck swallowed hard as he took in her curves, her nipples hard from the cold water. He could feel his erection straining against his long johns underneath the cool water.
Buck swam over to Lou, his arms coming up under her as he stood and picked her up, Lou's arm went around Buck's neck, one hand brushing his hair back from his face. Before she leaned in and began to nip at his jaw. Buck growled, low in his throat when she nipped at his ear. Buck waded with Lou in his arms to the waterfall allowing it to cascade over them as he passed underneath it and into the hidden cave.
Lou smiled when she opened her eyes, "I didn't know this was back here."
"I found it one day by accident. Me and Ike were out here, horsing around, I had shoved Ike hard, into the waterfall and he fell. He disappeared and I thought he must have hit his head so I rushed over to help only to fall through the waterfall myself to find Ike standing here just looking around at this secret place." Buck told Lou as he sat her down on her feet, the water barely coming to her knees here.
Buck kissed Lou, his hands ghosting over her body, hot against her skin through her wet garments. Lou whimpered when he began nibbling at her jaw and neck, down to her shoulder and collar bone. Down her chest to her nipple. Down her stomach to her apex between her legs, his teeth nipping at the fabric in his way. Buck pushed against her backing her up until she was pressed against the stone wall, his hands going to the ties of her camisole, freeing her from the sheer fabric. His mouth captured her breast, careful not to suckle them to much, he didn't want a mouthful of breast milk.
His hands lowered to her bloomers, pushing them from her hips, allowing them to fall into the water. Lou kicked them off. Her own hands going to Buck's long johns and doing the same, freeing him from the confines of the fabric. Buck's fingers gently caressed her center, making sure she wasn't sore or still tender from the birth. Lou moaned at the contact. She had missed this so much. Buck moved backwards, lowering himself into the water to a little ledge around the stone walls that acted like a seat, he pulled Lou with him, allowing her to straddle his lap. His mouth attacking her neck and ear. Hands caressing every inch of her.
Lou leaned forward, her lips finding Buck's ear, her tongue tracing the shell of it, flicking his earring. Her hands on his chest, her nails scraping him. Lou rocked her hips against Buck's erection that was pinned between their two bodies. "I want you inside me Buck." Lou breathed out as she rocked her hips again.
"Are you sure? I don't want to hurt you." Buck panted, he needed her like yesterday.
"Buck… I can't wait any longer." Lou moaned as she rocked her hips again, the friction hitting that little bundle of nerves.
Buck put his hands on Lou's hips and helped her as she lined herself up with Buck, so very slowly sinking onto him. They both groaned from the sensation. Even after given birth, Lou was still so very tight, but it was different and it was even better. Lou slowly began to rock her hips against Buck, Buck rocking his hips up into her. Their movements slow and deliberate. Never harsh or fast. Gentle and loving. Their mouths and tongues battling each other as their pleasure mounted. Lou was breathing hard, panting. She was already so close. Buck angled his hips slightly as he rocked up into her, hitting that secret spot. Lou moaned loudly, her head flung back as she rode him. Her breast bouncing in Buck's face. He could feel her walls tightening, "Buck..." Lou breathed, "so close."
Buck rocked his hips up into that spot again and again until Lou, screamed out his name, her walls clenching around him. His own climax being milked from him. He filled Lou with his hot seed, her name escaping his mouth like a prayer.
They sat, still melded together as they came down from their high, soft kisses and touches and whispered words of love filled the space behind the waterfall. When Buck had softened and had slipped from her core, they moved from each other and washed away the evidence of their love. They had to hunt down their undergarments as the water had washed them away from them. Once dressed again they returned to the ranch and to Rider, it was feeding time.
As Lou sat there nursing the baby, Buck watched her. She was his wife in the Kiowa world, but not in the whites. He wanted to change that. He knew that in the eyes of the town Lou had only been widowed roughly 6 months, he knew that the standard mourning period was one year. And he also knew he didn't care. He wanted Lou to be his wife in all ways. As he stood there and watched her he found he just couldn't wait any longer, "Marry me Lou?"
Lou looked up and smiled at Buck, "We're already married Buck, remember your brother came and married us." Lou teased, she knew what Buck was getting at but she wanted to hear it.
Buck got down on his knee next to her chair, a hand on her leg, the other touching her cheek, "Louise, I love you more than you can possibly imagine. You are my wife in the Kiowa way, but I want you to be my wife in every way. Marry me?"
Lou felt a huge grin take over her face, "I thought you'd never ask." she teased before she leaned forward and captured his lips with her own, pulling back she whispered, "Yes."
