Entrusted to a Highlander (Highland Promise Trilogy #2) - Donna Fletcher Page 0,70
had meant it, but he doubted she would believe him if he told her that now. He scarcely believed it himself and yet he felt it. He felt it deep down where he never thought he’d ever feel again and that in itself was frightening.
He felt compelled to say it anyway, but her fingers landed on his lips stopping him from responding.
“Don’t,” she whispered, resting her brow to his. “I want you to mean it when you say it.”
It would do no good to force it now, another time. Now, however, he could show her what it was like to be loved by her husband.
He opened his mouth and before her fingers could slip away he kissed them. “I’m going to make love to you.”
Purity smiled and wiggled to get out of his arms. “Hurry before someone stops us.”
“Hurry is one thing we’re not going to do, wife,” he said as he carried her to the bed.
Chapter 18
Arran sat Purity down gently on her feet. “Your leg—”
“Is doing well. I applied a comfrey soak,” she assured him.
He ran one finger faintly over her lips. “One soak will not do.”
“Later I’ll apply another,” she said, the faint touch of his finger sending tantalizing tingles along her flesh.
He brought his lips to hers. “You will make sure of it?” His warm breath whispered across her lips, leaving a hint of a kiss.
“Aye,” she murmured and touched her lips with his faintly to remind herself this was real. It wasn’t a dream. Arran was her husband and they would make love.
He loved the way her lips sometimes would timidly touch his as if not quite sure what she intended to do, not quite sure it was all real. He loved showing her how real a kiss could be. He slipped his one hand to the back of her neck and coiled his arm around her waist and, holding firmly to both, he crushed his lips against hers.
He’d kissed endless women, some enjoyable, others not so much, but no kiss—not one—compared to how intoxicating it was to kiss his wife. And with the intensity that she returned the kiss, there was no doubt she felt the same, which intoxicated even more.
He had to rein in his passion, it soared wildly urging him to hurry, but rushing was the last thing he wanted to do. He wanted to know every inch of his wife, touch every inch of her, kiss every inch of her—love every inch of her.
He reluctantly ended the kiss with a light nip along her bottom lip. “After tonight, I’m going to be familiar with every intimate part of you.”
“And I you?” she asked.
The passion that sparked in her gorgeous green eyes flared his passion even more and he wondered if this might be one time he wouldn’t be able to control his desires.
“Aye, you have the right to touch, kiss, taste every part of me,” he encouraged and wondered why she frowned. “What’s wrong?”
“I fear I won’t last long. I already feel close to bursting with pleasure.” His unexpected smile filled her heart with joy and added to her already unfurling passion.
He cupped her face and kissed her quick. “Then I’ll make sure you burst with passion more than once tonight.”
“I can do that?” she asked, stunned.
He let his hands fall off her face. “Aye, you can, and I’ll see that you do.”
Purity grabbed his face in her hands and planted several mushy kisses on his lips. “I do so love you, husband.”
How had he gotten so lucky to get her not only as a wife, but a wife who loved him? He didn’t know, though he was going to make sure that he never did anything to lose her love.
He brought his lips to her ear and whispered, “Off with your clothes, wife.”
Purity laughed softly. “You first, husband.”
Arran didn’t waste a moment—he was naked in no time. He immediately got busy helping his wife out of her garments. Once he did, he let his eyes roam over her appreciatively.
“I’ve seen many women naked, but” —he quirked a brow— “that time in the barn—”
“I never watched you and Flora, I only heard, though I did get a peek of you naked,” she said with a mischievous smile.
He reached out and ran a finger from under her neck slowly down the middle of her chest to circle one breast from the thickest part all the way up to around her nipple and gently squeezed and felt as the bud hardened between his