Saving Grace by Unknown (romance book recommendations txt) 📗

face was beet red now, burning with embarrassment at the Doc seeing me this way. The room was thick with my scent and I knew both the men could smell it just as well as I could.

When the Doc's implement came up against my maiden's head I gasped again and my fingers clutched at the edges of the table. The Doc looked up and smiled, then turned to look behind him at Austin who was observing everything carefully.

"Perfectly intact!" the Doc said cheerfully. "She's in quite a heat too. I haven't seen a woman in this kind of state in a while."

The Doc turned back towards my middle and pulled the device out of me. As it left I gasped again and my thighs trembled sending another strange mix of embarrassment and pleasure through me. How could I be feeling this way from the Doc touching me? It was almost as if I were enjoying what was happening. "Do you plan to breed her right away?" The Doc's words made my mouth drop open from shock. Though I knew that was what husband's did to their women, I had never heard it spoken out loud!

"I suppose I was just going to see what happened," Austin said matter of factly, as if this were the most everyday, usual question he had to answer all the time.

"Well I don't know if you plan to train her," the Doc said back. Austin replied quickly.

"Oh I've every intention to do that."

"Well I find it's always good to give some time between having a woman trained and breeding her," the Doc said with an upturned eyebrow.

"You're more'n likely right," Austin replied quietly. The Doc nodded at his answer, straightened up and moved towards the counter in the corner by the sink. Austin kept his eyes on me the whole time and I felt myself getting wetter just by his gaze. By the time the Doc returned to the table, I could feel how slick the table was under me, from what I'd left there. I looked down to see him holding a bulb of some sort. He squeezed the end of it and a clear liquid seeped out through a tiny hole at the tip. "With a good dose of this every other week she shouldn't take until you're ready. When you are, just stop giving it to her. With the heat she's in, I suspect she'll be carrying before you're done fucking her."

I gasped loudly. I wasn't sure if it was hearing the Doc say the f-word or hearing the chuckle that followed it that shocked me so. He looked at me straight away. "Oh Gracey, I know you haven't heard me cuss and there's a reason for that. I told your daddy I'd take good care of you till the day you were wed. Now that you are, I feel like I can be myself around you again. You've got your husband to protect you and take care of you. The Doc you know sure is a whole lot different than the Doc the rest of Dalton does."

I couldn't believe my ears. All these years I thought that the Doc was just some soft spoken gentleman who never cussed or drank. It was looking like there was a whole side of him I didn't know about.

"Well, that just about does it then," the Doc said, wrapping things up. "I'll be up to the house in a day or so to see how the training's coming. I take it you haven't had a wife before?" the Doc asked with arched brows.

"No sir. But I know well enough how to handle one. Certainly would appreciate you checking in though. Always good to have a professional opinion."

"Not a problem. I'll be up as soon as I can. Probably a day or two like I said, when I can find some time between my rounds."

The whole conversation had caught me so off guard that I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The two men, my husband and the Doc I'd known almost my whole life, were just casually talking about how he was going to come up and do another examination. For what?!? And what was all this talk of training?!? I had no idea what I'd gotten myself into. The only thing I knew was that there was no getting out.

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Chapter 8: A firm hand

When we arrived back at the ranch we found Cole in the barn, mucking out stalls, something I'd done myself since I'd had to let the last of the ranch hands go. Somewhere in my belly a little bubble of anticipation began to grow. I knew what it was that men and women did on the day of their wedding. I didn't know what it was that two men did with one woman on the day of their wedding. Austin dismounted and handed the reins of his horse to Cole who began to untack the horse. He turned to me, looking at me from under the brim of his cowboy hat, a look that filled me with a throbbing desire. I imagined what he might say next. How he might step towards me and sweep me into his arms and take me to the house and into the bedroom...

"Grace, go and make us some lunch please. I'll help Cole finish up here."

For a moment I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I paused, just to make sure that he wasn't playing some kind of a joke. But Austin just stood there, eyeing me, an eyebrow raised possibly at the fact that I was still standing there and not rushing off to do his bidding like a good little girl. Ha! I grabbed the reins of the horse I still hadn't returned to Rebecca, lifted my chin up into the air and shot him my coldest smile.

"I'll be taking a ride right now. I have a horse to return."

Austin's face clouded over almost immediately. Cole stopped what he was doing