Blaecleah Brothers 7
Coming December 25th
Life has settled down for each of the Blaecleahs. They’ve
all found their legends and are living a life filled with love and happiness.
But anything worth having is worth fighting for and not even the luck of the
Irish can keep the Blaecleahs from having to fight to keep what they have when
the past comes back to haunt them all.
In order to save Ma and Da, they may have to decide who they
want to keep in their family, and who they don’t before that choice is taken
away from them by someone they never expected.
When violence threatens them, aid comes from an unusual
source but will it be enough to keep the Blaecleahs in Cade Creek or will the
life they have built for themselves disappear before their eyes?
STORY EXCERPT
"That’s the last of them."
Alani Blaecleah turned to see her husband setting another
green rubber tub down on the hardwood floor of the living room. She chuckled
softly when Da grunted and rubbed his lower back with his hands as he stood.
"You’ll live, old man."
"Not if I keep lugging your holiday boxes around."
Miffed, Ma planted her hands on her hips and sent her
husband her best ‘don’t make fun of me’ glare. "Now, you know it wouldn’t
be Christmas without all my decorations, Donnell Blaecleah."
"Woman, I’ve been married to you for almost forty
years. You could make Christmas happen with a shoebox and a ball of twine, and
have." Da waved his hands toward the stack of tubs that held all of the
Christmas decorations Ma had collected over the years. "You don’t need all
this fancy stuff to make a holiday."
Ma smiled despite Da's flustering. "They hold our
memories." She reached into the small box in front of her and pulled out a
folded piece of faded paper. Ma set it on the table and smoothed it open with
care. There was a lace doily that lay snuggled inside. "You gave me this
on our first Christmas together," she said as she held the small piece of
lace lovingly in her hands.
It was one of her most prized possessions.
"I remember." Da’s soft chuckle was as warm and
light as summer's breeze. "We had nothing that year, barely a roof over
our heads or potatoes in the root cellar."
"And yet you found a way to buy this for me." Ma
still remembered how blessed she had felt when Da gave her the small piece of
white lace interwoven with intricate purple flowers. "Lachlan was still in
diapers and Neason was just a couple of weeks old. We put every spare penny
into making their Christmas special and yet you made mine even better."
Ma felt tears prickle her eyes when weathered but strong
hands settled on her shoulders, giving her a gentle squeeze. The warm body of
the man that had stood by her side for so many years pressed gently into her
back.
"It’s just an old piece of cloth, woman." There was
a suspicious sheen in Da’s pale green eyes as he turned Ma and wiped his thumbs
over her cheeks right under her eyelashes. "Didn’t cost me more than a
couple of hours chopping wood for old man Walker."
"That man had two sons that could have chopped wood for
him." Ma pointed a finger at Da, not in an angry manner, but just to make
her point. Her Donnell had a soft spot whether he wanted to admit it or not.
"He didn’t need you to do it."
"No, maybe not." Da’s smile was a beautiful as a
sunrise. His eyes twinkled and were so full of love and affection that Ma felt
like she could drown in them. "But he also had a wife. He knew exactly why
I needed to earn a little extra money."
When Donnell looked at her like that, Ma felt like her
husband's universe. He had been looking at her like that for nearly forty
years. It had been the main deciding factor in her giving up a life of luxury
back in Ireland and coming to the new world with barely a penny to their name.
"No one looks at me the way you do, Donnell Blaecleah."
Ma’s voice hitched, emotion tightening her throat. "No one has ever looked
at me the way you do."
Da let out a bark of rich laughter, a joyous sound that Ma
had grown to adore over the years. "I fought the whole of Ireland to have
you, Alani, me love. I would be very upset if someone else thought they could
take you away from me."
Ma closed her eyes as she leaned her head back against Da’s
solid chest, savoring the moment for what it was—a slice of time when
everything in her world was perfect. Her soul mate held her in his arms, her
sons were happy with their own partners, and the next generation was alive and
well and adored by everyone.
A shiver of awareness slid through Ma when Da’s fingers
threaded through her graying hair. She was grateful that Da was one of those
men that was not afraid to show his affections. She, as well as all of their
sons, knew that Da loved them, in word and in deed.
"Do you miss Ireland, Alani?" The words were
whispered almost as if Da was afraid of the answer although he had asked the
same question a hundred times over the years. Ma always gave the same answer.
Maybe this time, she should tell him the honest truth.
"I miss my Ma, Donnell. I always do around this time of
year. Christmas was her favorite holiday. I miss watching her decorate the
house, the smells that filled every room, the food, the sense of something
bigger than us that seemed to take a hold of everyone."
Ma leaned her head back so that she could look up into the
pale green eyes she had fallen for as a young girl of barely nineteen.
"What I don’t miss is the way my father tried to run my life, to dictate
my every move, right down to who I was to marry. I don’t miss feeling like I
was a disappointment because I failed at something my father believed I should
have mastered just because of the family I was born into. I don’t miss feeling
like anything I did was never good enough or that everyone in my family felt
they were better than everyone else because we had money and a family name that
went back centuries."
Ma drew in a quick breath so that she could continue before
Da said anything. "The Blaecleah name is an old and proud one, just as old
and proud as my maiden name. But I’d much rather be a Blaecleah than the name I
was born with."
The beginnings of a small smile curved up one corner of Ma’s
lips as she smoothed her hands down Da’s chest. "There are things that I
miss, Donnell, but I think the question you need to ask is if I regret coming
to America with you and the answer is a resounding no. It will always be no.
Marrying you was the best decision I ever made, one I have never
regretted."
As his thumb gently traced Alani’s lip, Da smiled that sweet
gentle smile he gave her when it was just the two of them. "You are the
one good thing that has happened to me in my life."
Ma cocked an eyebrow. "What about your sons?"
"Without you, I would have no sons."
Ma chuckled lightly. "Touché."
"Because of you, I have six beautiful sons, all of whom
have found that one person meant just for them." Da’s head cocked to one
side, a funny little frown on his face. "Well, except for Seamus. He found
two people. But the point is—"
"The point is that we are lucky."
Da chuckled. "We are Irish, Alani. We’re genetically
predisposed to be lucky."
ADULT EXCERPT
"Harder!" Lachlan squeezed his eyes shut as he dug
his fingers into the sheets. He spread his knees and tilted his ass up even
further into the air, needing the pounding Asa was giving his ass. No one
fucked like his Asa. The man gave new meaning to the term ecstasy. No matter
what Lachlan had asked for over the years, Asa provided it.
"So tight, Lany," Asa groaned, the deep needy
sound music to Lachlan’s ears.
Lachlan spread his legs farther apart as he rocked his ass
back and up, wanting Asa to fuck him until he was unconscious. Lachlan’s
fingers curled into the sheets as Asa hammered into him. It was raw, fast, and
made Lachlan’s head swoon. He keened and mewled, begging his lover to take him
harder.
Asa didn’t disappoint.
He moved faster and faster with each deep thrust, achingly
deeper. Fingers dug into Lachlan’s hips as Asa switched his position, tagging
Lachlan’s prostate on every damn stroke. Lachlan’s body tingled and buzzed, his
heart beating faster as he felt an all too familiar tingling shoot up his
spine.
Lachlan was getting close. He could feel his balls drawing
up tight against his body. He knew he only had mere moments before he flew over
the edge with abandon. His cries and whimpers filled the room, overshadowing
their heaving panting. The harder Asa rammed into Lachlan, the louder his cries
became. Sweat dropped down both of their bodies, the sounds of their flesh
slapping together with the cries of pleasure.
"Harder, damn it," Lachlan growled. "Fuck me
like you mean it."
He arched his body toward Asa as his orgasm roared up his
spine and down to his groin, and then his cock exploded, wetting the bed with
his seed. Lachlan cried out, his entire body throbbing with his release.
"Lachlan!" Asa shouted as he slammed into
Lachlan’s ass, his fingers digging in so deeply that Lachlan knew he was going
to have bruises. Lachlan felt a series of short thrusts and one long one where
Asa drove up into his ass and stayed there. Hot liquid filled his ass, each
powerful spurt shooting against his sweet spot, making Lachlan’s vision dim as
even more pleasure continued to weave its way through his body.
Lachlan rocked back and forth, bathing in the release that
had had him hazy and sated. Little tremors rocked through him, prolonging his
pleasure until Lachlan thought he was going to pass out.
He closed his eyes and laid his head down on the bed, unable
to do anything but breathe, and even that was taking effort. He smiled weakly
when he felt Asa plant a small kiss on his temple.
"Thank you, babe."
Lachlan opened his eyes and grinned up at the man that had
become his husband just a few years earlier. He leaned up and brushed a small
kiss across Asa’s lips. His eyes twinkled with amusement as he replied,
"My pleasure."
Asa chuckled as he slid from Lachlan’s body and rolled to
the side of the bed. He quickly went to the bathroom and then came back a
moment later with a washrag to clean Lachlan up. After chucking the washcloth
back into the bathroom, Asa sat on the side of the bed and reached down to
thread his fingers with Lachlan’s.
"We need to get up, babe," Asa said. "Da is
waiting for us to help him with the cattle."
Lachlan groaned and rolled over to bury his face in his
pillow. He could lie all day in bed with his husband—and he wanted to.
"Don’t wanna."
"You’ve tried that excuse before and we ended up with a
wet mattress after Da took the hose to you. I’d really prefer to keep this one
dry." Lachlan smiled into his pillow and the smile grew wider when Asa’s
hand came down on his ass. Lachlan pushed up, silently begging for more. He
would never get enough of the gorgeous man.
He loved having Asa’s hands anywhere on his body.
