Death of the Horse Trader

Chapter 6 The Horse Trader and the Fire

Kirsten opens the newspaper clippings on the last fire on the property, little does she know about the past one and who did it, but to learn there was more than one fire was  something to think about.   Casey was sitting with her and they begin to talk about the fires.  

"These fires happen so many years apart is one accidental or are they both done by arson?" Casey looks at me and I raise an eyebrow at him.

"I am not sure of  either"  I reply back to him thinking this same thought "Are they related, or, just  freak happenings,  I mean barns are old and can have a faulty wiring,  or some fool could have been smoking and caused a fire also by mistake by being a careless fool."

"We need to look into this old fire way back to see if there was anything going on back then. it could lead to a motive if the fire didn't kill him  it escalated into a more brutal and personal way to go and kill him? Try by fire and if not then go after him in a more direct manner?"  Casey looks at me quizzically  "It could be a form  to link the fire and Colton and  then the murder being the last thin gin the killers plan to hurt him and make it a final hurt."

"The first fire happened ages ago. Like before I was even born, I have no idea who,  or what caused that one and I never asked when I worked there."  I was only interested in horses at that time and  was not into  being a detective back then.  Colton was not married I think at that time.  I think he was married after that  a few years later and he broke up with the  rider he was with and married some   lady I never knew.  They were not married for long and then he was single again.  He married Ava when I returned from College, like a year or so after, I think.  I wonder if  the fires are related to the marriages?"

"Could be" 

"Well, I think it might be" I read in the clipping about Anna Flynn, being named in the picture, "Hey, is this the professors wife?"  I look at Casey, he peers at the picture and I wait for his answer.

"Hmm.  It looks a lot like her, it could be her,  it could be a relative too, the picture is slightly blurred with age, and I cannot be certain."  He takes it from me to look more closely, "Yeah, I would say that is could  definitely,  be the professor's wife."

"But,  is she responsible or is the rider he broke up with the one responsible for the fires? Or Fire"

He looks back at me  "Well, we can try to do an interview of both of them to see what they say,  but,  we dont have any evidence that would link them to either fire, besides the fact that they may have been with Colton, but we dont know if the professors wife was ever in a relationship with Colton.  The rider Hailey, we do know, since you said you remember her being on the property when you were little, maybe just didnt realize they were intimate and not just partners.  Back then unmarried people  didnt flaunt affairs around youngsters or in public in a small town."

 Our eyes meet and we look into each others eyes for a bit both of us silently thinking to ourselves.  I was looking into his eyes they were so dreamy to me that I feel like I could just look into them all day. I wonder if he ever thinks about me beyond friends at times like this.    I imagine that we are at a dinner together and he leans into kiss me on my lips.  His lips feel soft and gentle as he moves his mouth over mine taking my upper lip and capturing it with his lips and softly sucks on it.  His tongue licks my lower lip and I feel my lips part a bit,  and he takes advantage of it and slips his tongue in my mouth to explore inside.  I blink and break eye contact with him.  He looks at me puzzled and asked me "What is it?"

I stammer " Oh!  Nothing.... just  a strange thought came to mind, I wonder if they were both dating him"   I think fast to  clear my head of  thinking about Casey romantically knowing that we were just friends.  What is wrong with me all of a sudden I can't stop thinking that I want to be with him romantically?  My face feels hot and I think I'm turning red.  

Casey takes my hand and I look at him "Do you like me?" he says to me.  My eyes come back in contact with his "I am sorry if you dont like me this way, but I am so drawn to you, so much that I need to kiss you now." He pulls me close to him and kisses me just like I imagined him doing to me  just  a second ago in my mind. My eyes close as his lips touch mine.

"I do like you" when he draws back from my lips. His hands and arms pull me close to him, I feel my breasts press against his chest.  I tremble a bit in his arms. He pulls me closer to him.

"God, I wanted to kiss you for years, but, you seemed to be arms length  away from me always." he says  a bit out of breath.  He kisses me again and I melt against him his hands traveling down my back and over my butt cheek and he cups my butt with his hands and presses me against him firmly. I feel him harden as I am pressed against him.  I gasp, "I have to have you more of you" he says to me and I kiss his lips back and our tongues wage a little war for control.

I never thought of him as strong, until that moment, when he picks me up, and wraps my legs around his waist  and takes my butt cheeks,  one in each hand and squeezes them and pushes me against his hard length inside his pants.  I feel his hands squeezing me and caressing my ass and sliding to my inner part of my legs to my mound and my bud which is aching to feel his touch through my jeans.   He presses my bud against his hardness I moan in his mouth.  He walks with me pressed against him to my bedroom, he walks through the door and with his leg  kicks it closed and locks the door.  I live alone though and think that is funny.  I giggle.

"What is so funny?"  

"You locked the door" I say to him.

"Ahh, well I have always had nosy siblings,  habit really" He walks to my bed and holds my ass in his hands rubbing his fingers in-between my legs I moan and he kisses me deeply til I cant breath and he lets his lips  part from mine while he takes a breathe.  "I am going to f**k you and I hope you are alright with that"  I nod at him breathless with anticipation, I wanted him so badly I could feel the wetness in my core.  

He holds me tight against his hardness and grinds my crotch on him pushing me hard against him with my legs spread wide since they are wrapped around his waist I can feel him against my bud and I feel a wave of pleasure with the contact.  He kisses me and pulls my legs down from his waist and he removes my pants with his hands inside my hem, he removes my pants inch by inch his fingers touching me as he pulls the waistband down, his fingers facing my skin,  he slips a finger inside me,  my clothing  pressing his fingers to my bud and he rubs the tips of his fingers lightly on it,  I cry out  with pleasure and he rubs harder  and slips deeper inside me.  He feels my slickness inside and using his finger he goes inside me again and again.  He kisses my neck and sucks on my ear  and I feel myself climax on his finger.

He removes my pants when he feels me tremble on his fingers, I am supported by his arm and his fingers inside me as he lifts me up one armed and sits me on the bed and pushes me to lay back on the bed,  tugging the  pants from my legs and takes my panties off which are now wet,  kissing my legs and inner thighs,  his mouth moves  back up to my moist mound.  His tongue tease me more and he manages to take his own pants off without me noticing much and I feel his hands lift me from the bed to remove my top and bra, he leans against my naked breast and I feel his hot skin next to mine and his lips find mine again his hands holding my hair to keep my face still while he plunders my mouth,  his other hand teases my bud more and I feel his hands separate my legs and they fall open when he teases my body.  He takes one of  my n*****s into his mouth and sucks each one of them hard, and rubs my bud with his fingers, I moan and gasp as he takes what he wants from me and I willingly give it to him.  

"I think your ready for me now" He positions my legs over his shoulders  and spreads my legs apart and thrusts into me hard.  I scream in ecstasy.  He kisses me  holding himself deep inside me.  He slowly moves inside me and brings me to another magnificent orgasm.  He releases inside of me  and stays there for a good 5 minutes and he rolls off of me and breathes heavily for another 5 minutes.  

"I wish you had did that a long time ago"  I giggle.  "OMG!  How did we not do this before"

"HOLY HELL Kirsten!  I been in love with you  since college  just didnt think you would be into me at all.  Wow I was a coward and blind to see that you liked me"

"Likewise, I was blind also to see it"  I say in between breaths.  I wonder  what made this happen in the first place did talking about the fires have anything to do with this?  

We lay in my bed both dazed a bit by this turn of events.   I begin to think there may be something to this  professor's wife and Colton being in an affair.  Look what just happened with Casey and I.  What kind of fire burned in all of us?