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He took her to the bed, his cock deep inside of her. She screamed when he grabbed a handful of her hair and lifted her up. His command to come, to let go, had her body pausing, her heart stopping. Then she came.

Nothing could have prepared her for the feelings that she had in that moment. And she did feel everywhere, everything. Sage came, hard long strokes of her body. When she screamed out her release the next time, his name was there for him to hear, but she was coming a third, then a fourth time as he slammed his cock deeper, harder as his hand dug deep into her flesh.

The world around her narrowed, her heart stopped beating altogether and she let the darkness just take her under.

When she woke up, her body immediately seized up. It was as if every muscle in her body was regretting the lovemaking that they’d had. Reaching for Stone to see if he was as sore as she was, she was glad to hear him moan.

“Never again.” She laughed, and he did as well. “Good Christ woman, I’ve never in all my life felt like that…well, I’ve never felt like that in all my years.”

“I know just what you mean.” Rolling to her back, her body protested loudly, and she cried out when she moved her legs. “I’m not ever moving again. I’m stuck right here forever.”

That made him laugh, and she smiled. “I have to get up and go to the bathroom. Am I too old to whimper like a baby when I do?” She told him that she was in the same position. She needed to go to the bathroom as well but was fearful of crying.

“You go ahead and cry, love. That way I won’t have to feel so bad when I get up and go myself. I think that every muscle in my body has been abused. In a good way, but damn, I’m going to be sore when I get up.” The two of them lay there for a bit longer until she decided she was going to wet the bed if she didn’t get up soon.

Even sitting on the side of the bed cost her. Her breasts were sore, and there were little bruises all over her breasts. When she tried stretching out her feet just to get the kinks out of her toes, she sobbed. Smiling, she thought that every pain had been well worth it. She was as satisfied as she’d ever been. And she’d do it again if she felt better.

Going to the bathroom, she had to hold onto the sink before she could sit down. It seemed as if now that she was up and moving around, her body couldn’t take sitting again. Even her bottom was sore.

Smiling at Stone when he tiptoed into the bathroom with her, she decided to brush her teeth later as she needed a nap now after all that moving around. As she headed back to the bed, she realized that she wasn’t nearly as sore, and as soon as she laid down, she wondered if she would ever be the same again.

Getting up the second time wasn’t nearly so painful. The other side of the bed was empty, but it was warm. Going to the bathroom she heard the shower running and decided to join Stone. That way, he could wash her back and make it feel less stiff.

“No way am I going to be able to make love to you again. Not right away anyway.” She laughed and told him that she was thinking the same thing. “The warm water is working out the tightness. I was thinking that we need a hot tub. I think that would be perfect for us after making love like we did.”

“I’d love that.” He did end up washing her back and she did feel the muscles loosen up. When she was ready to get out, Stone turned off the water and then got out. When he handed her a warm towel, all she could think about was wrapping her body in it and taking another nap. Dressing herself to ward off the temptation, she was headed to the kitchen when she remembered that Hailey had spent the night at their home. She was sitting at the kitchen table having toast when she entered.

Kissing the little girl on the head, she asked her how she slept. She’d be embarrassed if she heard them, but she said that she’d slept like a log. Then she told her about the dolls.

“Ms. Fitz said that she’d wash all the clothing for me. And we’re going to give them all a bath, too. I hope that’s all right.” She told her, of course, it was. “And her mister is going to clean up the toys that came with them. There are a lot of them, too, don’t you think?”

“I think that it’s the perfect amount if you love them.” There was a trunk too that the dolls were in that she’d managed to get, and she was thrilled that someone had thought of cleaning them up. The years of dust on them made her think that was the reason that she’d gotten them so cheap. They werevery dirty. “I have some things that I have to clean up, too. Getting the big desk is going to take a while to get ready for the office for Stone.”

“What’s ready for Stone? Hello, my beautiful ladies.” She told him what they’d been talking about. “Oh, I have some things to go through as well. I found a couple of more paperweights in one of the other boxes. I’ll have to get my collection of them from storage. I’ve been collecting them since I was younger.”

The three of them, along with Ms. Fitz, talked about the summer months. They had a pool, so she could see them all spending a great deal of time outside. It occurred to her that she was thinking like Hailey was going to be staying with them. She only hoped that was true. Sage already loved the little girl.

“Oh, Sage, dear, there are some phone messages for you. Could have knocked me over with a silver spoon when the thing rattled like it did. I put them on the table in the hallway for the two of you.” She went to get them and was surprised to hear from an attorney by the name of Walton. She called him back first thing when the note said for her to call as soon as she got the message.

“Thank you for getting back to me so quickly, Mrs. Griffin, but I’m the attorney for the Donaldson estate. He mentioned you and the little girl, Hailey James, in his will. He had changed it only on the day that his wife passed. I hurt for the man, but he said he didn’t think he was long for this world and wanted to get things straightened out.”

“Do you know what happens to the little girl? She’s been staying with the Griffin family, my family, for some time now and I need to get things rolling on her if she’s going to someone else.” He explained that the Danielsons had a son, but he didn’t want anything to do with his parents or the little girl. “That’s sad. I worked for the Danielsons for years, and I found them to be the best people.”

“I don’t know the entirety of everything, but the young man is getting up there, and he’s raising his three grandchildren and one of his own that is handicapped. It’s a terrible thing, I think, when grandparents aren’t able to…well, that’s for another time. I was wondering if I could get you to come to see me as soon as tomorrow. The estate, believe it or not, is quite large. The couple invested in a great many things over the years and it’s paid off well for them.”

“I’ll have to see if I can get a flight out tomorrow.” He said that he’d come to her, knowing that she lived in Ohio now. “All right. You tell me where we’re to meet and we’ll be there. My husband will be as well. Stone and I haven’t been married all that long, but he’ll need to come with me.”

“Yes, yes, that’s good.” He told her of the hotel that he was staying in and gave her a time. “That way, we can get things cleared up for that little one and make sure that she had a good life that she might well have had if she’d been a bit closer to the Danielsons.”

After getting off the phone with the attorney, she told Stone what was going on. He said that Storm had done a background check on the couple when she’d gotten here and was surprised as well by how wealthy they’d been.

The three of them hung around the house for the rest of the day. Eating a light lunch, they were ready for a big dinner when Stone suggested that they have a nice cookout. Ms. Fritz was happy with that and had made them side dishes to go with the steaks and burgers that they were going to cook. She was excited too to be able to go through the box lots that she’d gotten and to find little treasures that she was going to keep.

Chapter 8

Sage sat in stunned silence. Except for the house that they gave to their son, everything else came to her. To care for their only great-granddaughter. She looked at Stone when he asked her something but for the life of her, she couldn’t understand what he was saying to her.

“Honey, you’re scaring me. Say something.” She nodded but still didn’t speak. Picking up the list of things that she now owned, all she could think about was that she was a millionaire several times over. And that wasn’t even counting the stocks and bonds that they left to her as well. “We can adopt Hailey now. Isn’t that good?”