Highlander's Heart (Clan Matheson #2)

“I’m beyond ready.” He licked her then moaned and dived in deeper. His tongue probed all around, flicked deep then swiped over her nub. She gasped and arched deeper into his touch. ’Twas all too much, yet also not nearly enough.

Every inch of her body tingled and she clutched his head and held him possessively to her as a firestorm of need radiated out from where he touched. He gripped her hips, his claws extending then retracting as his mouth moved like a hot brand over her nub. He sucked, hard, built her pleasure to a soaring level. “Tor.” She thrashed underneath him. “Please, come inside me. I dinnae wish to reach this peak without you.”

“I’m coming.” He lifted his head, his gaze on hers as he rose over top of her. With one hand on his shaft, he rubbed the head along her sensitized folds, coating himself in her wetness below before he pressed the tip to her channel and gazed into her eyes.

She cupped his cheeks and drew him closer to her. “Do it.”

“I can’t take the pain of our joining away, but I’ll make it pass as quickly as I can.”

“I can handle the pain, particularly when all I want is this joining.” Something battered against her mind and she wrapped her legs around his waist as he nudged his cock against her barrier. “Be mine, Tor, always mine.”

“Always, from this moment forth.” His mind shoved against the barrier still locked in place between their minds and he grimaced, a flare of anguish crossing his face. Her big bear had such a tender heart, truly didn’t wish to cause her even a moment of pain.

Grasping his buttocks and with a mental push from her mind, she sent him plunging inside her and as he tore through her barrier, his mind tunneled deep inside hers as he created the private pathway that would only ever be theirs. Joined together, both in body and mind, she was laid completely bare to him and ’twas all she desired. No more secrets. Her thoughts would be there for him to read, and his thoughts hers for the taking. Such a stunning connection. She seized the link, locked it into place within her mind and whispered into his, “My husband, my lover, my fierce steward.”

“It feels incredible to have you in my mind and for me to be in yours.” Slowly, he lifted up, drew himself out then moaned and pushed all the way back in again until his balls slid sensuously against the inside of her thighs.

Rocking underneath him, her heart and body his for the taking, she moaned right along with him. “I love how you feel inside of me.”

“I’m sure I love it more. How’s the pain?”

“It wasnae so bad. All I feel now is very full, and also a great deal of desire for you to keep moving.” She clung to him, her arms wound tightly around his neck and her ankles crossed over his backside.

“I will, but keep your mind open to mine so I can feel what brings you pleasure and what might not.” He pulled out and pushed back in, going deeper with each long penetrating drive. Thrusting, he quickened his pace, his mouth on her neck as he sucked at her skin.

“Are you going to bite me?” She couldn’t wait for him to.

“Aye, the same time you’re going to bite me.” He palmed the back of her head, brought her mouth to his neck as he pounded into her.

She rocked with him and grazed her teeth back and forth over his fiercely beating pulse. Sensations stormed to full and fiery life within her, until she could no longer hold her need back. She marked him, as swiftly and possessively as any woman would in claiming her mate. Her warrior. Her bear. Her husband.

“Do that again,” he demanded as he plunged into her, over and over, his pace wildly frantic.

Heartbeat thumping against his, she bucked and bit down, marking him a second time. He roared his pleasure then sank his teeth into her and sent every one of her last thoughts careening. She cried out his name, his masterful claiming such pure pleasure and passion all rolled into one, a joining she’d crave for the rest of her life. Of that she had no doubt.

“You feel so good coming around me.” He caressed her nub with one finger and her channel squeezed his cock ruthlessly as she dragged him even deeper inside her. His seed pulsed from him, coating her inside and her heart soared right along with her soul as they connected on a level far beyond this place and time.

She nuzzled his neck, lapped at his skin. She wanted him, just like this, with him never leaving her side. Living without him wasn’t an option and if he ever perished, then so would she. Their mated bond was a slice of heaven and now she knew how beautiful it was to hold him deep inside her, she’d never give him up. To the depths of her being, she was his, for now and for all time.



A red haze of lust consumed Tor’s mind and a powerful surge of need still clamored within him. Even though he’d just claimed his woman in every possible way, he moved his mouth to the other side of her neck and with her pulse hammering out of time under his tongue, he bit down and marked her again.