It was the first time he’d seen her smile.
Epilogue
Two weeks later, all the stolen gold was heading back to its rightful owners. All the bodies, including that of Jack Leyton, were buried.
Cocheta and Dobson returned to their saloon at Holy Defiance.
Vonda was on the mend at the ranger post in Broken Jaw, where she was also preparing to stand trial for thievery and murder. Longarm didn’t think that Roscoe Sanders had chained her to an iron ball and put her to work, slinging drinks at Slim’s while she awaited trial, but he wouldn’t put it past the old ranger.
Whip Azrael remained out at the Double D. Longarm and Haven both agreed that the elderly ranch owner had gotten and, under the care of his angry wife, was continuing to get his just desserts for making off with the stolen Wells Fargo gold.
Longarm and Agent Haven Delacroix were heading back to Denver on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe flyer, enjoying the Pullman sleeper car they shared.
“Custis, I should really be very angry at you,” she said late one desert night, four hours north of Santa Fe, while sucking his cock in the Pullman berth they were sharing.
“Because of Cocheta and Vonda?” Longarm said through a groan. “Haven, you ain’t gonna believe this, but I didn’t start any of it with them two gals.”
“You were an innocent bystander?”
“You could say that, yes.”
“Not that you mean anything at all to me, you understand,” she said, sliding her mouth off the swollen mushroom head of his cock and looking up past his bare belly and chest, her intoxicating hazel gaze melding with his. “It’s just that I prefer gentlemen to callous rogues.”
“Well, with you comin’ from such aristocratic French blood, with some highfalutin painter for a long-lost cousin or such, you would.”
He looked down at her. Haven lay belly down and naked between his bare legs, holding his cock in both her hands, her wet lips glistening in the flickering light of a bracket lamp.
Beside them was her own reflection in the dark window, holding his cock before her as though praying to it. She appeared there in the misty darkness, limned with wan lamplight, a lovely girl shrouded in mystery.
A mystery he hadn’t yet even begun to plumb or to solve.
She touched her tongue to the head. He shuddered at the keen pleasure the sensation gave him.
“Well, this works out just right, then, Agent Delacroix. There’s nothing callous about me.”
He smiled. He threw his head back and sucked a breath when she lowered her warm, wet mouth down over his jutting cock once more.
She sucked him very slowly for a time before she lifted her mouth back off of him again with a slight wet, popping sound and licked her lips. “Do you think we’ll ever work together again, Longarm?”
“I hope so, Agent Delacroix. I sure as hell do certainly hope so.” He wanted…needed…to solve her mystery.
“Mhmmmm.” She smiled. “It’s nice to work with a fellow…uh…professional. Even if he is a lusty cur.”
She rose to her knees and straddled him, her full breasts jostling just inches in front of his face. She wrapped her arms around his head and drew his face against those beautiful, heaving orbs, waggling her shoulders to rake his longhorn mustache across her nipples, which hardened instantly beneath his lips.
He took her breasts in his hands and squeezed them as he nuzzled them. Reaching down behind her, Haven closed her hand over his cock and lowered her warm and welcoming love nest down on top of it.
“Oh, Jesus,” he said. “Yeah, this lusty ole dog does certainly hope to be workin’ with you again real soon, Agent Delacroix!”
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