EroticReverie

Maverick Mac Montgomery

I stayed with Tessa in the cabin for hours before I had to get back down to the ranch. Judah would be back soon and while I’m sure he already knew the decision I was going to make having his form of a blessing, I didn’t want to rub it in the man’s face. Because he’d know what we were doing up at the cabin. Plus I had work to do and couldn’t very well stay up here all afternoon no matter how much I wanted to. 

I pull up the truck outside their home and look at Tessa who’s smiling ear to ear. Her smile making my lips curve slightly. 

“See you later?” She asks and I nod once and she unbuckles her seatbelt and leans over and presses her lips to mine. 

“Later Big Mac” she says and presses another kiss to my mouth before she opens the truck door and then looks over her shoulder 

“Oh, by the way, I am on birth control, I just wanted to see how bad you needed to cum inside of me” she smirks and hips out and my eyes widen. 

“Tessa Rae!” I growl at her and she blows me a kiss and shuts the door as I grind my teeth together and I roll down the window. 

“Youre gonna pay for that” I growl. 

“Oh, I sure hope so” she winks and then laughs and walks off and I watch her ass as she goes. 

I shake my head at her when she gives me another wink at the door before going inside. 

——

As I walk into the shared open cabin , I can hear the guys talking. Mainly the new guy because it’s a voice I’m not that familiar with. 

“Seriously, I think I’ve got a shot” Ryder says as I walk in and close the door behind me and hear Lewis one of the younger ranch hands respond. 

“You’d do best to tell your dick no, she’s off limits man.” Lewis says. 

The new guys huffs. 

“She’s legal, ain’t she?” Ryder says as I step into the room and all faces around the table look to me. 

I stand there and stare right at the new guy. 

“Aw shit” mutters Neil, a forty year old who’s been here just about as long as me. 

Ryder shrinks in his seat slightly before deciding he wants to puff up his chest instead. He’s about to double down on what he said like a fucking idiot. He’s pretending not to be scared of me, again, a fucking idiot. 

“I sure hope you’re not talking about Tessa Rae.” I say and everyone around the table looks back and forth between me and the new guy. 

“From what I heard, she ain’t yours, so what’s it matter to you?” Ryder asks. Fucking. Idiot. 

“Man..I’d shut my mouth” Lewis warns the new guy as I walk around the table and stand right new Ryder and slap a hand down on his shoulder and grip it hard and with warning as I lean down   , speaking above his head. 

“You try to touch her….I’ll cut your hands off…you even look at her for too long, I’ll pluck your fucking eyes out…you speak about her again….and I’ll cut out your tongue…you try anything with her….ill fucking kill you…..cause you heard wrong cowboy….that woman IS mine…and I’ve got no fucking problem making an example out of you when it comes to her. Got me ?” I ask and he hesitates and then nods. 

“Y-yeah, sure man” he says and I let go of his shoulder. 

“That goes for all of you fuckers” I look around the table. Knowing damn well they’d never lay a finger on her or try a damn thing. But , can’t be too sure. 

“Judah knows?” Lewis asks , jaw open. 

I give a single nod. 

“Shit boy, about time” Neil huffs a laugh and the others that have been here do too and Ryder chuckles along with them nervously. 

“Didn’t expect Judah to allow it, but we all saw it coming anyways” Neil adds. I hide my surprise, because here I thought I was good about keeping my attraction to the bosses daughter under wraps. But apparently not. 

“Don’t go fuckin it up” Sam, another ranch hand says. “Don’t wanna have to string you up and watch Judah handle it if you hurt her. We rather like having you around.” 

I huff. “Don’t you worry , I’m not going anywhere” I say and then walk off and grab my towel and go to the bathroom. 

——

After a shower and getting dressed I walk out of the cabin and towards the main house where Judah is just getting back and he looks at me. Shakes his head and huffs and then keeps walking. 

“Office. Now.” He barks at me without looking back. 

I follow him inside and we pass his wife Beth who is trying to hide a smile as she watches her husband mutter under his breath. 

“The fuck was I thinking?” He shakes his head. 

Inside the office. I get another lecture and more warnings. Nodding my head and accepting his terms. Nodding my head and feeling my chest swell with pride when he says if he wanted his little girl with anyone , he’s glad it’s me. He praises my loyalty to him, to the ranch and his family. And tells me I better demonstrate that same loyalty to his daughter. But he already knows I will. He warns me that I better not go fucking around with other women , because all the ranch hands have been known to blow off steam with local women. But he already knows I’d never disrespect her. 

After his half hour lecture he gives me instructions for the day and I’ve got to go on a drive to another ranch a few hours north to handle a situation with another ranch owner that sent a guy down three nights ago when I wasn’t here, to try to poison the cattle. Lewis found him near the feed area , and shot him dead. Because here we shoot first and ask questions later. Except Lewis can’t aim for shit and got him in the chest. Taking one shot that ended up with the guy bleeding out , only with enough time to give the name of who sent him. 

“I’ll take care of it.” I say and stand up and he nods. 

——

I take the new guy with me. Not because I want to, because I have to. Because he has to prove himself. Prove that he belongs here. Either he does or he doesn’t. 

Paul Delvin is a coward. And owns a smaller ranch with far less land and livestock. He considers himself in competition with Judah’s ranch. But there’s no competition when it comes to Judahs ranch. Judahs a pretty reasonable fucking man when it comes down to it. But fuck with his livelihood? His work and his men and his family? You won’t live to tell about it. Paul Devlin is struggling to keep his neck above water , like most other nearby ranchers. But most of them know that there’s no way to compete with Judah. Few have tried , and failed. And Paul isn’t the first to try to sabotage the ranch.  

Paul is in the shower when I let myself and Ryder into his home. Two kids look up at me from the floor , probably five and eight years old. 

“Where your daddy?” I ask and they blink and point towards the back of the house. 

Just then a thin blonde with a long sundress on walks around the corner with plates of snacks for the kids and drops them to the floor when she sees me and Ryder in her living room. 

“You might wanna take the little ones for a ride Sarah.” I say , knowing her name. And she knows mine, knows who I am.

“What..did he do?” She asks , her eyes leading with me for a mercy she knows I can’t give. 

“Take the kids Sarah.” I say and she shakes her head. 

“Please. He’s their father.” She pleads quietly. 

“Then take them out for a few hours. Because you’re not gonna want them to see what happens when their father decides to play dirty.” I say and then keep walking and listening to her gather the kids and grab the keys and rush them out of the house while crying. 

———-

An hour later , Ryder and I are walking back to the truck. 

“You did good.” I tell him as we get into the truck. He’s quiet. He’d hesitated a lot. But he’d done the job. I look at his bruised and bleeding knuckles. 

I didn’t make him kill Paul. But I let him deliver the message. I let him deliver it over, and over again as I watch while he beat the shit out of Paul Devlin slowly. A punch here. A kick there. Letting him wallow in pain. Before dealing a few more. Making him skin part of his back and then pour salt over his wounds, alcohol, tiny little tortures to keep him in ongoing agony. 

Then I dragged him out back, grabbed his own branding rod and heated it up and had Ryder brand the motherfuckers face on his cheek. 

I told Paul he’d deliver us every last livestock he owned. Because if he didn’t, he knew what would happen next time I paid him a visit.  His wife would return to her husband missing and he’d never see her or his kids again. 

He’d begged and pleaded like most of them do. But there was no mercy for him. He’d either do as he was told. And be allowed to start over. Or he’d die. It was that simple. 

Ryder doesn’t say shit the whole way back and I’m glad for it. 

“Get cleaned up. Eat dinner.” I tell him as he just sits there after I’ve parked. 

I roll my eyes as he continues to sit there. I was honestly surprised the mother fucker had the balls to do it all. And he only threw up one time. 

“Get the fuck out of the truck and pull yourself together. Or I’ll tell them all you lost your lunch your first time and you’ll never hear the end of it”

Pride was the worst thing to threaten ok this ranch. Because pride was all we had. He nods and gets out of the truck. 

I watch him go inside and then get out of the truck and turn as I hear footsteps and the corner of my mouth turns up. 

“Been waiting for you Big Mac” Tessa call out and keeps walking towards me and I lean against the front of the truck and watch her walk to me. 

“Where you been?” She asks , wearing a knee length linen dress with short sleeves, and scrunched fabric hugs her tits with a little string tied into a bow at the top of her cleavage , leaving a little hole that shows off between her breasts. 

I don’t answer because she knows I won’t anyways. What I do for her father is between me and him and the guys on the ranch. She’s not dumb, she knows it’s nothing good, but she also knows it’s necessary. That what I do protects her. Because it protects her father’s ranch. 

“Nice dress” I say and she smirks and looks over me for any signs of bruises or cuts. 

“Easy job, huh? Was it Devlin?” She asks. She knows more than her father wants her to most of the time. 

“Get in the truck.” I say and nod and then slip my hand around her back and guide her to the passenger seat. 

“Not gonna answer me?” She asks. 

“When have I ever answered your questions about ranch business Tessa Rae?” I respond and open the door and she climbs in. 

“You could start.” She says and looks at me and I shake my head. 

“Quit worrying. Everything’s fine” I say and she rolls her eyes and I shut the door.

“Where are we going?” She asks when I get in the drivers side. 

“I need a drink.” I say as I start the truck. 

“You kill him?” She asks and I turn my head and look at her. 

“You wanna pick the bar?” I ask as I ignore her question. 

“He’s got kids Maverick.” She says.

“And they’ve still got a dad. Now quit it. What bar we going to?” I ask and she looks at me. 

“Maybe we can talk to my dad, we can have someone else -“

“Don’t even start with that. Not happening.” I say and shake my head and she closes her mouth. 

I know what she’s gonna suggest. Now that I’m hers she wants me to let go of the responsibility of being Judahs best man. To let someone else handle the business of dealing with the illegal parts of working for Judah. 

“don’t interrupt me” she hisses and I glare at her. 

“Then don’t say stupid shit Tessa” I growl and she narrows her eyes at me. 

“That’s not how this is gonna go Tessa and you know it. Even if I wanted to , you know he wouldn’t allow that shit. And I don’t want to stop either. My job is to handle it. To protect your dad’s work here , protect the guys, protect the land and your family, to protect YOU.” I glare at her. “So don’t ever ask me again, or suggest doin otherwise. Got it?” 

“Don’t tell me what I can or can’t say, do you know who the fuck you’re talking to Big Mac? YOU know who the fuck you went a stuck your dick in , so if you think for one god damn second I’m gonna shut my mouth just because you’ve got a big dick and know how to use it , you’re not as smart as I thought you were” she says and I shake my head at her. 

“Dont be a pain in the ass” I growl at her. 

“The dont be an asshole” she says. “Grumpy fucker” she mutters and throws on her seatbelt. 

“Let’s go get your damn drink.” She says and I smirk slightly as she pouts in the passenger seat. 

I lean over and she turns her head and glares at me. 

“You think I’m gonna kiss that mouth after it just tried to tell me what to do?” She huffs. 

“I’ve had a long god damn day, fix it.” I growl at her. 

She sighs after a few moments. 

“Jerk” she mutters and then kisses me.