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  They lied quietly and said nothing. He loved the way she smelled. Her fragrance was sweet and pure. Her skin was soft and supple. She listened to the beat of his heart and her own melted within. Her finger tips strolled gently over the scar on his shoulder and then gently kissed it.

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  A few days later, William was feeling better and returned to live with Margaret. He sat quietly on the porch and drank his lemonade, with his minds consumed with Denny. She was a beautiful woman. So what if the color of their skin was different. In a town like this? It could never be, and he knew it.

  “Thinking about her again, aren’t you?” asked Margo, as she stepped out upon the porch.

  He silently nodded.

  Margaret sat down beside him and said “Love does not have a color William.”

  “I know that, but this town would never accept us” he said. “They barely tolerate us now.”

  “Where love exists, there has to be a way” she said.

  “I don’t know Aunty Marg. I just don’t know” he sighed.

  “You love her, don’t you?”

  He sighed earnestly, “Yes…I do.”

  “Then there will be a way!” she said. “You wait and see.” She smiled as she walked back inside to finish making supper.

  He continued to sit and think as he recognized a figure approaching the front gate. She was dressed as pretty as a picture. Her dress was old, but it has been altered to fit her fine figure. Her jet black hair had been slicked and curled into ringlets.

  “Denny!” he exclaimed.

  “Hi William,” she replied. “I know I am taking a big chance being here, but I couldn’t stay away one moment longer. I know I am crazy to feel anything for you. You’re white, I’m a slave…”

  “You’re free!” he declared.

  “Only by law, but I am still in chains here” she declared. “Free to do what? Okay so we aren’t owned, but we still get treated like outcasts. Surely a black woman would be stoned for even looking at a white man inappropriately. They hung a black man only a year ago for making love to a white woman! She loved him…but her father didn’t care. He was hung without trial!”

  He knew it was true.

  “I have to get out of here!” she said. “I want to be where I can enjoy being free!”

  “What do you mean?”

  “North. I need to go north to a place that recognizes me as a woman, not a freed slave” she said.

  He sat quietly.

  “But I won’t go…if….” She seemed uneasy.

  “If what?”

  “Oh William, I know I am crazy to ask this. It’s not proper…”

  “Ask what?”

  She fumbled on her thoughts and looked incredibly uncomfortable.

  “I might be crazy…but I think I’m in love with you. Oh that does sound crazy” she rambled. “I…I…If you tell me you don’t love me or that I am mad and crazy, then I will just go and let you be. But if you feel the same for me…” her body began to quiver as she struggled with her words and emotion.

  William smiled and approached her slowly.

  She looked like a terrified child. Her eyes were full of compressed tears as she composed what little dignity she had left. “I’m sorry William; it was silly for me to say…”

  He gently placed his finger upon her lips “Shhh…” he said. “You don’t have to say another word.”

  She stood agonizing over what he would say next.

  “I love you too” he said.

  “We can’t be together though, can we?”

  “Not here” he sighed. “Maybe a change would do us well…”

  “How will we do it? Where will we go?”

  “I imagine a city; like Chicago or New York would be best… though I imagine a black man and white woman would still be odd” he confessed.

  “Well, we can at least try, right?”

  “We can” he agreed.

  “We don’t have much, but we’ll make it right?”

  He smiled and hugged her, wanting to say ‘Yes’, but knowing it would be tough. Since his father had declared him dead, the inheritance was gone. There was nothing for him; nothing but his horse and bare essentials.

  Margaret had been listening at the door. She smiled as she thought. “Oh hi Denny” she said as she exited the door.

  “Hello Miss Margaret.”

  “You know William, I was just thinking…”

  “Oh?”

  “I was just thinking it was time for me to move away from here…” she said.

  “Move away?”

  “Well, Mr. Jenkins did offer to buy this old place for a good price. Would be enough to finally get out of this town…”

  William was confused.

  “You know, William…I got that mare and wagon. I won’t need it. Could you use it?”

  “What? I can’t…”

  “Buy it?” she asked.

  “Well… yeah”

  “You silly boy!” she scolded. “Don’t you know by now how much you mean to me?”

  “I guess I do…”

  “Boy, I’m getting on in years and want to live my days by the ocean. Something small and quiet. You boy, I have your inheritance locked up, but I am thinking…” she winked. “I am thinking you could use it now, couldn’t you?”

  He was speechless. Denny offered a semi-smile.

  “Tell you what. I am going to head south with what I need. You sell what I leave and it’s yours!”

  “What? No!” he gasped. “I can’t let you do that!”

  “It’s what I want William.”

  “You sure?”

  “It’s what I want. Please let an old lady have her way, okay?”

  William didn’t know what more to say. Margaret had always won her arguments. Instead he simply hugged her “I love you Aunt Marg.”

  “I love you too, son.”

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  With Margaret heading south and their wagon heading north, William and Denny were thrilled and scared about beginning lives anew. As dusk began to fall, William pulled the wagon to the side of the trodden road and set up a small shelter for the night.

  “Are you nervous?” Denny asked.

  “No…well…maybe a little” William confessed.

  “Me too” she said. “But in a good way.”

  Denny gazed dreamily into the fire and smiled warmly. Sure, life hadn’t been easy, but she liked where it was heading.

  In awe of her beauty, William sat closer. “You are so beautiful.”

  She smiled warmly as she looked into his eyes. “Oh William…”

  Gently he leaned down to her lips and kissed them gently. Without hesitation she returned the passion. Then with lust growing in her body, she gently began to slide her fingers in between the buttons of his shirt and stroked his body gently. He loved her touch, it made him woo and aw. Then, he kissed her again. This time the passion locked and they kissed with magical intensity.

  Then he gently began to kiss her down her neck and she sighed softly with delight. He gently moved his fingers beneath her blouse and found his way beneath it, revealing the caramel tipped nipples, perked with excitement. He grabbed her gently as she moves her hand into his pant and loosened his buckle. As she unzipped his denims, she soon discovered his pleasure perked to attention.

  His cock was bold and thrust. She continued to move her hands over him and helped him remove the shirt entirely. Then she gently began to kiss the scar and then moved her mouth downward until her lips slipped softly over the thickened penis and gently sucked it twice, arousing him all the more.

  Then she moved her hands to her waist and then slipped off her petticoat and skirt. Now with her legs she moved her toes along his thighs. Then he returned to kissing him on the mouth. He found her body to be perfect and zealous as he moved his hands over it gently, yet firmly.

  Now with his body flexed he moved his mouth down towards her pussy and gently parted the lips. Then with his tongue he began to lick and tickle her clit.
The arousal of his touch urged an energized moan of ecstasy. Her body flexed with excitement as her eyes rolled with euphoria. He continued to lick her emphatically and without mercy, while he slipped his fingers into her vagina, elongating the moment of arousal.

  Then as he slurped and tickled her clit again and again, her moans and cries peaked high into the night until the climatic eruption released her of the fathomable pleasure. Her head spun with pleasure as he soon moved his cock into place and increasingly moved his cock in and out with pleasure for them both. Her body continued to grope his while his cock took pleasure in the moistened vaginal opening. The tension that held his cock in place elevated the pleasure as he called out for glory and soon released the pearly white substance within his beauty.

  Now panting with pleasing fatigue, they fell upon one another and covered themselves modestly beneath the starlit sky. She placed her head against his chest again and sighed with warmth within.

  “Oh god, you’re amazing!” she said.

  “You are too Denny” he replied. Then thinking a little more, he had a thought. “I know this may seem crazy, but I want to ask you something.”

  “Anything” she said curiously.

  “I don’t know whether we will have any obstacles or not, but if you would do me the honor of becoming my wife, I would love deeply the chance to marry you.”

  “Marry you?” she said with sweet surprise.

  “Without reservation” he confirmed.

  “Regardless of the obstacles we might face, I know I will love you always and I want to be with you always. Marry you…that is a definite Yes!”

  “I love you Denny Jackson!” he said as he grabbed her firmly.

  “I love you too.”

  The night fell quiet as their love and passion continued to grow. With a journey still to unwind, the only thing they could be sure of was their love. Whatever would be would be, but nothing and nobody would tell them they would not be a couple. Their love would withstand all the battles of the civilized new world and would carry on for generations to come.

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