beg him but I can’t.
He cups my pussy as he suckles my breasts, then he lowers his fingers between my legs. I convulse around him, I’m so eager for pressure, and his low, dark chuckle of pleasure makes me crazy.
“Do you need to come, sweet girl?” he whispers in my ear. I feel his body pressed up against mine, his hard length against my side.
I nod my head and try to reach for him, but my wrists strain tightly against my bonds. I nod again until I’m dizzy. I think he likes torturing me. A gentle touch of his fingers, then a sweep of his tongue, a pinch between my legs, then a stroke of perfect pleasure, until my hips buck and I ride his fingers as my body spasms with pleasure. I’m whimpering and lost, my world dark but my body so light I could fly.
I want to pleasure him as he does me, but just when I collapse, exhausted from the pleasure that consumed me, his phone rings. He draws away from me with a groan and takes off my blindfold. I blink, my eyes adjusting to the brightness in the room.
“You stay right there,” he orders. Not sure how I’d get away if I wanted to.
“What?” Lachlan glares at me, and it takes me a moment to realize it isn’t me he’s angry with, but whatever he’s hearing on the phone. “Jesus, Keenan. Right. Yes, of course. Let me know.”
He hangs up the phone a moment later and shoves it in his pocket. “Maeve’s been taken to the hospital.” He stabs his fingers through his dark hair. It’s gotten a little longish. “And Sheena’s been trying to reach you. Supposedly you sent her a message?”
He removes the makeshift gag. I shake my head.
“I haven’t texted her since yesterday,” I say with a frown. “What the hell?”
“The arsehole that took your phone did it, then. Wonder who else they contacted, pretending to be you?”
I pinch the bridge of my nose. “My God.”
Are they everywhere?
“You need to call Sheena,” he says. He hands me his phone.
He doesn’t meet my eyes. “Everything okay?”
“Call her.”
With a frown, I do what he says.
“It’s me,” I tell her when she answers. “I’m using Lachlan’s phone because mine was stolen.”
“Stolen? So, you didn’t send me those messages?”
“No.” Her voice is strained. Is she crying? “Are you okay?”
She sighs. “I thought it was you that sent me the message. You said something about regretting going to America and that you wanted to… to end things.”
“Oh, God.”
Lachlan must hear the panic in my voice, for he sits beside me and holds my hand. I want to sit in his lap and feel his arms around me.
“I would never, Sheena, I promise.”
I can hear her intake of breath. “I know that now,” she says with a sniffle. “Thank God you’re okay. Thank God he’s with you.”
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve heard Sheena cry.
“Is there anything else that’s wrong?” I ask. She breaks into fresh tears, and a second later, Nolan gets on the phone.
“Hello, sweetheart. Nolan here.” I close my eyes and pinch the bridge of my nose. “Thank God you’re okay.”
“I’m fine,” I tell him. “I’m right here with Lachlan.” Stark naked and coming down from an orgasm, I think. But fine.
He sighs. “Glad to hear it. We were worried, but Lachlan assured us he has you well taken care of.”
That he does.
“Sheena’s a bit under the weather,” he says.
“Nolan, what is it?”
He sighs again. “She lost the baby, lass.”
I close my eyes with a rush of sudden emotion, and my throat clogs. “No,” I whisper. “Oh, Nolan. I’m so sorry.”
“Thanks, sweetheart. She’ll be alright. In good health, just reeling from the loss is all. We’ll take good care of her. You let Lachlan take care of you. He’ll be sure to find whoever’s threatening you.”
“He will. And thank you.”
I hang up the phone and draw my knees to my chest. Lachlan holds me tighter.
“You okay?”
I shake my head.
“I want to go home.”
Chapter 16
Lachlan
I hold her as she cries, and I wonder what we’re even doing here. We belong back in Ballyhock, with the Clan, my brothers, our family. I want to put a ring on her finger and my baby in her. I want to end each night and begin each day with a kiss from her. I want more than my own two hands to protect her. I want the Clan fortress around her.
My phone rings, and I