Highlander's Kiss (Clan Matheson #1)

“I had no idea.” He slipped it from her fingers and slid it behind her ear. “I’ll always pick you one as well, whenever I cross the swampland.”


“I will treasure this gift, more than you will ever know.” She wriggled her bottom into his groin and dropped a kiss on his lips. “Might I show you just how very much I’ll treasure it?”

“I’d like nothing more, but I need to feed you first.” He picked up the cooling meat, slid his dirk from his wrist sheath and cut a chunk off. He tore the meat into small slivers then slipped a morsel between her lips and ate a bite himself. He continued to feed her, until her belly was full and she held up her hands.

“No more for me. I need to cool down and wash this steamy heat from my skin.” She slipped off his lap, stepped into the basin of cool water and eased back until her head rested against the rim. Taking care not to wet the back of her head, she kept it out of the water. “Come and bathe with me.”

“Bathing will likely lead to so much more and I’ve already taken enough advantage of you.” A low rumble sounded deep in his throat, his shifter gaze burning an even richer golden hue. Slowly, he stood and prowled the chamber, from wall to wall before halting in front of her. “You need to hop out.”

“Or mayhap you need to hop in.” Hands on the basin’s smooth base, she pushed up a little and floated on the surface, her breasts bobbing high. “Once we leave to begin our search, there will be little chance for such an intimacy as this. There is also plenty of room here for two.”

“I shouldn’t.” Except he shucked his weapons and trews, his cock springing free and rising thick and high. She quivered with need as he slid into the water in front of her, his legs sliding in underneath her body as he rested his head back on the rim opposite hers.

“Touch me.” She stretched toward him, pressed her toes to his chest.

“You are teasing me beyond my endurance.” The clear surface rippled as he gripped her legs, ran his warm hands over her calves then slowly skimmed up her legs. Heat raced along the path he touched, his sweet caress moving higher, over her bottom, his hands kneading in firm circles as he traced all the way back down again. “You’re a temptation I’ll never be able to turn away from. I can’t believe you’re all mine.”

“As you’re all mine.”

“Aye, always yours.” He captured her feet and placed them firm against his chest. She giggled as his crisp chest hair tickled her sensitive soles. “I can already see the urgency of getting a large bath installed in our bathroom at Ivanson. Would you like that?”

“I would love it.”

“Whatever is mine is now yours.” He lifted one of her feet, massaged her heel, the high arch and around her toes then set her foot back against him and massaged the other. Kneading with delicious strokes, he worked up and over her lower limbs.

She sighed, her long hair swirling around and settling overtop of her breasts.

“Don’t dip down any lower. Keep your head out of the water.” He flicked her hair away from her breasts and tweaked her nipples. “And no covering yourself up either.”

“I didnae mean to.” A sizzling tingle radiated from the sensitive tips and rolled through her. “Could you do that again?”

His gaze roamed over her pebbled nipples. “You like it when I pinch your nipples?”

“Aye, there is naught I willnae like at your hand.”

“I intend to offer up far more than just my hands in pleasuring you.”

“As I intend to do the same with you.” She pushed up, sat astride him and clutched his shoulders, the cool water sluicing down her body as she did. His shaft, so thick and long, saluted her from the water and she fondled the tip then stroked to the root. “Never leave me.”

“I won’t. You’re my true mate.”

“Show me.” She touched the tip of her nose to his. “I need this.”

“You distract me as no other can.” He kissed her, hot and hard until he drove every thought from her mind and there was only him and this very moment in time. Gripping her waist, he lifted her up, kissed and licked her neck then drifted lower across the upper swells of her breasts. He rolled one nipple between his lips and as she arched back, he sucked her nipple deep inside his mouth which sent a torrent of tingles racing through her. He bunched his arms around her, his golden eyes twinkling. “I have other places I wish to devour right now.”

“Then dinnae let me stop you.” The water swished around her as he laid her back down and rested her head gently against the rim once more.