Bounty Collected

West Elizabeth

Anna wakes before Arthur early the next morning. She sits herself up and rest her head on the cot next to Arthur's sleeping face. She watches him a moment before softly saying,
"Arrrthur.."
He shifts slightly in the cot.
"Arrrthurrr.." She says again sweetly. He opens his eyes slowly to see her smiling at him with her hair tousled from the night. This was a sight he could get used to.
"Can you untie me?" She asks flashing him her puppy dog eyes. He reaches up and begins untying her. Once she's released, she grabs the shirt Arthur lent her and wraps it around herself, rubbing her hands up and down her arms to warm up.
"Come here." He says still groggy from his sleep. She takes a seat next to him at the edge of his cot where he wraps his arms around her almost pulling her onto his lap.
"Let's warm you up." He says softly.
"Thank you," Anna says welcoming his body heat. She grips her wrists to sooth the burn that the rope has left on her. "Do I still need to be tied up at night?"
"We will see how today goes." He answered.

They get themselves ready for their travel for the day. As they ride to West Elizabeth, they talk about everyday things such as the weather, the way of the world, etc.
"So, bounty hunting? How did you get into that?" He asked.
"Same way as anyone, I suppose. I saw the poster." She says with a chuckle. "I don't know. I just thought it sounded worth my while. More eventful than the life I was leading." She continued.
"What life was that?"
"Just boring." She said but he was looking at her for a better answer than that. So, she went on. "I spent my days just learning how to become an even better snob than the people around me."
"So, you come from money?" Arthur asked.
"I guess you could say that. Anyways, I learned a lot of things that I would never need to know being the wife of some rich man. It all just felt like a waste. So, I had to get out on my own and leave that life behind."
"Yeah, that sounds about like something only a rich kid would do. It's a waste to throw away that life to slum it with us regular folk." He chuckled clearly poking fun at her.
"Oh laugh all you want. You weren't there." She said recognizing how spoiled a person would have to be to make that decision.
"I wish I was! I woulda liked to live that life." He laughed. She just rolled her eyes at him. As they rode on, he kept finding himself looking over at her. She rode quietly with her hair blowing in the breeze under her hat. She caught him looking at her a few times but she didn't mention it. She felt it wasn't the worse thing in the world to have a strong, good-looking guy like that being interested in her.

After retrieving her wagon with all her belongings, they decided it was too late to travel back to camp. So, they went to the hotel in Strawberry to get a bath and stay the night.
"Hello, Sir, Ma'am." The friendly man behind the desk greeted.
"Hello. A room and baths for the both of us." Arthur said.
"Sure. Do you and your wife want to take baths in the same room?" The man asked causing Arthur to blush.
"No. Separate please." He answered quietly.
"Ok, just down the corridor there." The man gestured leading our eyes to the narrow hallway.
"Ladies first." Said Arthur.
"Oh, so you trust me to be by myself?" She said playfully.
"No, but you don't want me giving you a bath." He joked as she entered the room.
"Who said that?" She said biting her lip as she closed the door. He took the room next to hers to take bath as well. He sat in the warm water trying to figure out how he is gonna sleep in the same bed with Anna and be able to control himself. She knows what she's doing. I'll give her that. She is toying with me in all the right ways. I can't. I just can't. But I want to so bad. He played over all the ways he wanted to pleasure her. He could feel his length hardening. He took his body's queue and began stroking himself slowly. He was fully erect and stood up to get out of the bath. He thought of how she must taste, the faces she would make, the sounds she would make. He was vigorously jerking himself now. He leaned his head against the shared wall between him and Anna and grunted with pleasure. He knew he was getting close and pictured himself coming inside Anna. He let out two loud grunts as he came.
Finally, some relief.