Highlander's Seduction (The Matheson Brothers #3)

“Try it, and we’ll be having words, harsh words.” He leaned in and kissed her, his mouth moving over hers with a delicious demand that made her ravenous for so much more. “Cherub, I want to complete our bond and join with you in all ways. I long to form the merged link of the mind my shifter kind can, to speak to you at will, for us both to always know where the other is at any moment in time. I need that, and it can’t wait any longer.”


“I need that too. I also need to speak the spell to bind a piece of your soul to mine, so that I can keep you safe, from this moment forward and throughout all of time.” She spread her hands over his wickedly wide chest. His warm flesh held a smattering of hair, the same glorious shade as his head, and his muscles, they rippled as she touched him, so strong and unyielding. He was all warrior, all man, and all hers. “There is no other for me, other than you.”

“Aye, and no one can keep us apart, not even time itself.” He dipped a finger along her shift’s neckline. “I want to see all of you.”

“Aye, please. I want that too.” She couldn’t halt her need, didn’t have a chance of doing so.”

“Arms up.”

Slowly, she lifted them and he slid the white linen up and over her head. He tossed it aside, nudged her onto her back and with his gaze on hers, he traced one finger around her beading nipples. “Never did I ever imagine I’d be gifted with a mate such as you.”

“Or I you.”

“We’ll remain together, from this moment forward. No one can ever separate us again.” Gently, he eased her breasts together then dipped his head. The raspy stroke of his tongue across the sensitive tips sent a wicked bolt of pleasure straight to her core and he rumbled his pleasure, the vibration in his chest deep and throaty and giving evidence his bear sat close to the surface. “Me and my bear want to saturate you in our scent.”

“Then you need to finish undressing.” A trickle of hair narrowed down between his firm abs and disappeared below his waistband. She loosened the ties of his pants. “May I take these off?”

“Allow me.” He seized the waistband and shoved the leather down his thickly muscled legs and off. One impressively large cock bobbed free and brushed his belly, the head a ripe raspberry color that made her mouth water for a taste.

She tip-toed her fingers down the long length of his shaft then brushed across the dark thatch of curls covering the apex of his groin. “From the moment you stood afore me on the beach, my desire for you rose and will now never abate. Thank you for coming for me, even though at first I chose to run.”

“All I’ve wanted these past five years is to find you, to hold you in my arms and never let you go. Now that wish has come true.” He knelt between her legs, his balls drawing firmer and higher, his shaft thickening and lengthening even further. “Although I do fear this night, and hurting you. It’s the last thing I wish to do.”

“I can handle a little pain. I’m also a woman who knows what she wants and that’s not to wait another day until we join as one. I want you, and only you, for you to come deep inside me and join us together in a way I’ve never experienced afore.”

“In a way I’ve never experienced before either, although I intend to see to your pleasure first.” Licking his lips, he gazed at her below. “I’m also losing my mind right now at just the sight of you.”

“As I’ve already lost mine.” So many emotions tumbled through her, as well as a myriad of new sensations, all filled with longing, desire, and complete and utter need. She’d lived a lonely life, one mostly unseen, but she’d never need to remain that way with Kirk. She had opened her heart to him and now she intended to meld their lives together, in all ways. No more hiding. ’Twas time embrace her mate and her new future. “I want to touch you, just as you touch me, Kirk.”

“I’m all yours.”

“Aye, all mine.” She stroked down his arms and over his sides then back up again, his body all superbly honed muscle and smooth skin. She cupped his face in her hands, ran her thumbs along his scrumptious lower lip, his warm mouth and hot gaze drawing her ever deeper under his spell. Completely breathless and a whole lot dizzy, she murmured, “I wish I’d known of our bond five years ago.”

“Everything happens in its own time, and usually for a very good reason. At least now we need never look back but only forward.” He swept his hands under her bottom, bent his head and pressed a soft kiss to her belly. “In order to complete the bond, we need to be skin on skin.”

“Aye, I’m aware.”

“Is there a chance you could conceive?”

“I’ve never aged past my twentieth year, not physically at least, so there is a chance, although a rather slim one. Due to my immortality, my courses fall years apart.”

“Yet Amelia has given birth.” He raised a curious brow.

“Aye. So too she’s only conceived the once and she willnae have another chance to do so again until a new cycle begins. That could be in ten, twenty or thirty years from now. There’s no telling when, only that it shall be quite some time away.”