“I’ve never been yours to let go.”
“Aye, that is exactly what you’re asking then.” Her tears fell. Giving him up a second time would destroy her, all of her.
“Dinnae cry. Please, dinnae cry.” Fiona’s pain gripped Coll’s heart like a fist and naught could stem the pressure unless he—aye, he needed to kiss her. He dipped his head and touched his mouth to hers. He wanted to kiss her softly and cherish this moment, but instead the renewed taste of her sent his senses swirling into a maelstrom.
They couldn’t be soul bound, but they were most definitely attracted to each other. Aye, this was lust and he simply needed to expend it. Pulling back a touch, he looked deep into her eyes and when another tear slid free down her cheek, his chest near collapsed in on itself. He captured her mouth again and kissed her ravenously, with all the desperate desire and need to see those tears gone.
“Aye, give me more of your kisses. I’ll take whatever you’re willing to offer for now.” She rocked her hips against his hips and his cock swelled painfully as the pressure to take her and truly make her his roared through him. Nay, he couldn’t give into his own base desires, not when doing so would mean he’d fail his people. Those at Carron remained under his protection and must always come first, not his own needs or desires.
“I adore your kisses, Coll.” Whispered words against his lips.
As he adored hers and hell, if he could just lessen this edge of hunger riding him so hard, then mayhap he’d be able to think more clearly afterward. It didn’t help that she was wearing his gift, the red velvet gown he’d had the seamstress fashion for her. He stroked the soft fabric at her hips, the color bringing out the red highlights in her silky locks and the flush stealing across the upper swells of her breasts. Aye, he’d held those full mounds in his hands last eve and tasted the sweet treasure of them too. Mayhap one more time.
He plucked the front laces of her cinched bodice loose and the low neckline embroidered with white detailing drooped open and exposed a slight tease of her pink nipples. Gently, he eased his hand fully inside the bodice, soft velvet sliding sensuously across the back of his hand and with a staggered breath, he palmed her lush flesh. “I shouldnae be touching you so.”
“You may touch me as freely as you wish. I’m yours and there’s no part of me I’d now keep from you.” She pressed his hands tighter against her breasts, until the heavy beat of her heart pulsed against his palms. “My heart is yours, Coll. My soul is yours, and I wish for my body to be yours as well.”
“I cannae take any more from you than I already have.” He swiped both his thumbs over her nipples and they puckered all pink and tight. Not enough. He needed to touch more of her. He shoved the sleeves of her gown down her arms and exposed her creamy skin bathed in the golden glow of the moon. His mind hazed with lust and he bent and licked one nipple then gently blew across it until it stiffened even further.
“Mmm, do that again,” she whimpered, clutching his shirtfront.
“You should be telling me to halt.” Slowly, carefully, he drew one bud deep inside his mouth and tickled the tip with his tongue. Hell, she tasted divine, like the sweetest nectar of the sweetest fruit. More. He tweaked her other nipple then laved and treasured it, just as he’d done with the first.
“Dinnae stop, Coll.” Eyes closed, she arched her back and he scooped her up and laid her down on her plaid before the fire. She smiled, so damn seductively and he got lost.
“I love the way you’re looking at me.”
“I love the way you’re looking at me too.” She tugged the ties of his pants loose and grinned as his cock bobbed free.
“Wait.” A grating request.
“Nay, I’m done waiting, my stubborn one.” She curled her fingers around his shaft and gripped him as if she owned him, which right now she surely did.
“Halt,” he croaked, the plea barely making it past his lips. “I’ll come in an instant if you continue to touch me there.”
“That’s exactly what I’d like, for you to come and to never forget either me or my touch.” She swiped one finger over the head of his cock and his shaft pulsed in her hand, so greedy for more.
“Fiona, I cannae give you any more than this one moment in time.” He dropped his head to her neck and sucked on the sensitive skin where her shoulder and neck met.
“Even though I want all of you, I’ll agree to whatever you’re willing to offer right now.”