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“I feel many things myself,” Brave Wolf said. He softly stroked her arm as he gazed down at her nakedness. He was always in awe of her beauty, the sweet curves of her body, and the lusciousness of her breasts which would one day nourish their children.
“None of those emotions include fear,” he said. “I am confident that when the colonel does manage to get free and come for vengeance, we will be ready.”
“There are so many of them,” Mary Beth gulped out. “And . . . and . . . there was such hate in their eyes when they saw me dressed in Indian attire. If the colonel would have allowed it, I believe they’d have killed me.”
She reached a hand to her throat and softly stroked the spot where the bruise was now yellowing. “I have proof of their hate . . . of their loathing,” she said. She had told Brave Wolf of the attack on her. “Had I not thought quickly enough, I would be dead now.”
He bent low and brushed kisses across her neck, then rose over her and blanketed her with his body. “My woman, no man will ever touch you wrongly again,” he said, his body pressed softly against hers. “I will never allow you to be put in that position again.”
“The evil man is . . . is . . . still out there somewhere with the same hate in his heart for me,” she murmured, sighing with pleasure when Brave Wolf slowly slid his shaft into her warm wetness, her folds opening to him as though they were the petals of a flower opening to the beckoning of the sun.
“Let me repeat, my sunshine . . . you are safe,” Brave Wolf whispered against her lips as he withdrew again. “Close your eyes. Think of only good things. Think of where our bodies take us when they are intertwined. We have time to share these precious moments. Even as I speak I hear more and more friends coming into my village to join with my warriors. Together they will stand up against the Fort Henry soldiers and make certain they never again make the mistake of coming to my village. My warriors are meeting at the council house. I shall join them soon. But for now, you are the center of my attention. I ached for you so while you were gone.”
“As I ached for you,” Mary Beth said, smiling into his eyes. Then her smile faded. “Brave Wolf, the United States Government might see what you are planning to do as wrong. What if they do? The whole United States cavalry could come down on your people.”
He brushed a gentle kiss across her lips, then smiled into her eyes. “I am in the right, and the United States Government will see that I am when a report is sent to them about what has happened,” he said. “I know the President well, and he will understand that I have been pushed into such an action as this. He knows my love of peace.”
He placed a gentle hand on her cheek. “When the President receives word about how Colonel Downing has broken our treaty, it will be the colonel who will be reprimanded, not me,” he said. “He will be stripped of his command.”
“But things might have changed since the Battle of the Little Big Horn,” Mary Beth said, closing her eyes in ecstasy as he once again thrust into her, then withdrew. “The President might see all Indians as responsible.”
“He is a smart, just man and he will only send the cavalry to punish those who killed the whites on the battlefield,” Brave Wolf said, wanting to feel the wonders of their bodies locked together, and how it made a sweet peace throughout him. “It was General Custer who went for the fight and caused it. Not the warriors who downed him.”
“Let us talk of it no longer, at least not now,” Mary Beth whispered. She twined her arms around his neck, bringing his lips
to hers, giving him a long, deep kiss as he entered her and their bodies moved rhythmically together.
She drew her lips away for a moment and said, “Do you not know? We are the only two people in the universe.” She closed her eyes in total ecstasy as he kissed her again, this time with an almost desperate, hungry need.
She was overwhelmed with the joyous bliss of the moment.
They clung.
They rocked.
They kissed, their mouths urgent and eager as she moved her body sinuously against his.
Brave Wolf felt a rapturous spinning sensation rising up within him, flooding his whole body with the warmth and beauty that making love with her created.
He swept his arms around her and drew her even closer to him. The softness of her folds was warm against him as he thrust more deeply within her.
Unable to hold back any longer, he gave one last thrust, then clung to her as their bodies quivered and their sighs of total pleasure blended against each other’s lips.
“I do not want to let you go,” he whispered against her cheek as they lay breathless together. “I want to believe that the only thing that is real is what we have together. I do not want to leave this lodge and be reminded of what lies ahead. I pray to the First Maker above that I will have the ability to win my fight for the rights of my people. I wish that I could blink my eyes and the fight would be over and you and I were able to resume a life that is sweet and good and filled with peace.”
“That is the way it shall be as soon as that evil man is taken care of,” Mary Beth said, stroking his cheek with a gentle hand. “My love, soon it will be over. We will go to bed each night not having to worry about what Colonel Downing might have in mind for us next. He will have no men to command. He will no longer be a colonel.”
“He will be found, you know,” Brave Wolf said, easing away from her. He sat up, reached a hand to her, and drew her next to him. As they faced the fire, he pulled a soft pelt around both their shoulders, so that they sat, their shoulders touching beneath it. “He might even now be safe at the fort and making plans against us.”
“I doubt they shall find him this quickly,” Mary Beth said, shuddering at the thought of his fury when he was discovered tied against the tree, his mouth gagged. “But, yes, he will be found. The soldiers will not leave a stone unturned until he is found.
“I am amazed at you,” Mary Beth went on, gazing into his midnight-dark eyes. “How can you be so calm when you know that the colonel will be found and that he will waste no time coming here to seek vengeance against you and me. He must hate me with a passion.”
“The colonel will be too blinded by his anger and humiliation to even think about the time I have had to round up help to fight against him,” Brave Wolf said. He smiled slowly. “He will not consider just how many might now be here to make a stand against him.”
“I hope your calculation is accurate about how many men you need to make a solid stand against Colonel Downing,” Mary Beth said.
“Word has been sent by my scouts about the colonel’s plans, and many Crow clans are coming together even as we speak. We will form a united front against the enemy,” he said, smiling slowly. “And there are others arriving soon that might surprise you.”
