The Capture of Highland Desire (The Mac Coinnach Brothers) (17 page)

             
Eian watched as Allia’s eyes grew wide in disbelief.  “What?” she said softly.

             
”Do ye no’ feel it lass?  When I touch ye?  When we kissed?  There is much more between us than simple desire.  We
belong
together, ye and I.  We are a perfect match, in every way.  Ye are the one I’ve been waiting for my whole life, only I didna ken ‘till now what I was missing.”

             
Allia pulled in a sharp breath.  Eian Mac Coinnach would not be saying such things if he did not mean them, that much she knew.  But mates?  In the old Druid way?  She knew that those of their blood were sometimes born with soul mates, but she had never even hoped to find her own.  And yet… there seemed to be no other explanation for the incredible pull he had on her.  She had come back through time again to be near him, not even knowing if he truly wanted her, risking everything… as if she
had
to.  As if the choice had already been made for her.

             
“Lass”, he said in a husky voice, “I want nothing more than to make ye mine, right now, tonight.”   He leaned in to kiss her throat in that sensitive spot just below her ear, and she drew in a sharp breath, her body melting into his in surrender as he continued to kiss his way to her lips.  “If only ye will let me.”

             
She was lost.  For better or worse, he had her, because she did not have a single ounce of resistance left. Finally, his hunger for her and the truth she felt in his words sent her falling over the precipice she had been standing on for so long. “Yes, Eian.”

             
He pulled away a little in surprise and looked at her, his eyes searching her face to see if she meant it.  When he saw that she did, he paused to kiss and gently nip her lower lip before he spoke.  “But I need ye to be certain.  If I take ye, and we are truly destined, then we will be bound to one another for all time.  Ye will be mine, and only mine.  I will never let ye go, whether ye want me to or no’.”

             
She swallowed the sudden lump in her throat.  “And if we’re not destined?”

             
He grinned wickedly, making her knees go weak, quite a feat considering she was lying down.  “Then it will still be the most pleasure either of us has ever felt, I’m certain of it.”

             
“But are you certain you want to be tied to me forever?” she asked nervously.

Eian gently tipped her chin up with his fingers, fixing her with a smoldering gaze. 
“Once I have ye, I will never give ye up.  Once I take ye, I will never have enough, I can already feel it, my body will crave yers always.  Nothing, and no one, will ever tear us apart.  If ever I hurt ye, if ye ever think to leave me again, put a dagger through my heart, because I dinna think I could live anymore without ye.  In truth, the moment I saw ye, I was forever ruined for anyone else, as it should be.  Aye, I want ye, for always.”

             
He looked down at her, hardly seeming to breathe as he waited for her answer, and in the deep golden brown of his gaze, she could feel the truth of his words all the way to her heart.  He truly meant what he said. 
She trusted him
.

             
Allia put her hands against the steely warmth of his chest and leaned in to give him a kiss.  She had meant just a single kiss to seal their pact to be together, or at least to try.  But when her lips met his and the jolt of fire hit, Eian groaned and pulled her closer.  He bent his head to hers and urged her mouth open with a sweeping thrust of his tongue against the seam of her lips.  She opened them on a little whimper of surrender, and he took her mouth with a hunger that bordered on desperation.  He kissed her long and hard, stealing her breath while his hands moved restlessly over her body, as if he wanted to touch every part of her at once.  One hand found her breast, gently kneading and squeezing, while the other cupped her bottom and pulled her tight against his already throbbing cock. 

             
“Damn, ye feel so good.  Ye drive me wild, lass”, he panted near her ear.  “So good…”

Allia smiled and showere
d him with kisses of her own.  In this moment, she trusted him, utterly and completely, and nothing could be sweeter.  Finally, she was ready to let go and take what she wanted; what she
needed
.  What she had been
dying
to have.  She kissed him back, so hard she was certain she must be bruising his lips, but she didn’t care.  She couldn’t get enough.  She was kissing the gorgeous bad-boy that every woman wanted, and he had just told her that he wanted only
her,
forever.

His hand had
slid from her breast to the back of her gown, and she felt the tug of the laces as he pulled them loose.  Her hands found the hem of his shirt and she yanked it up, pulling her lips away from his only long enough to help him tug it over his head.  Now her hands were free to touch the broad expanse of his chest for the first time.  Miles of hard, sun-bronzed flesh, warm and smooth, but with steel just below the surface.  She had never imagined a man’s body could feel like this… She pulled her mouth away from his to rain kisses over his skin, flicking her tongue out to taste him.  In the steadily fading light, she could see that he had a tattoo, the black markings covering his upper arm and spreading onto his chest.  It intrigued her that he was marked, but she would have to wait to look more closely.  Right now nothing mattered but uncovering more skin. 

Eian had loosened her ties and now he tugged the gown off, discarding it as he went for her shift.  “God, lass, ye’re wearing far too much clothing… I need ye bare.  Now.”  She heard the shift tear as he ripped it from her body, but she didn’t care. 
This would not be gentle, she realized… but she didn’t want gentle.  Her first time was going to be an explosive release of all she had denied herself up until now; she could already feel the tension building within her, coiling tighter with every touch of his tongue.  She wanted every bit of passion Eian could give her.

              Eian couldn’t get enough, he wanted to kiss and lick every inch of this woman a hundred times over.  God, he was certain that he could come just from kissing her, but that would never be enough to satisfy him; his every primitive instinct was screaming at him to take her, hard and deep, until she had no doubt who she belonged to. 
Mine, mine alone
.

He took a moment to look at her
as he struggled to catch his breath, and a throaty groan escaped him.  “Och lass, ye’re so verra beautiful.  Perfect.”  And she was, lying there with her lips kiss-swollen and her eyes sparkling with desire, every curve made just right for his hands.  Unable to wait another second, he pulled her against him for another frantic kiss before pressing her back into the blanket, shifting his weight to the side so that he could suckle first one rosy nipple, then the other.  It was so very hard to keep his hips still, but he knew that if he rocked them against her now, he would lose every last shred of control.  Already his entire body was primed to the point of exquisite agony.  She whimpered with pleasure and tried to press closer, but he kept her pinned there, helpless beneath him as his fingers found the place between her thighs that made her cry out and squeeze her legs closed to try to contain the sensation.  Eian’s own breath was coming in harsh pants, and he wasn’t at all sure that he could last another moment without being inside of her.  He marveled that after all the women he had been with,
this
felt like his very first time.  He hoped that Allia felt the same, but he was too far gone to talk, especially when she reached out and wrapped her hand around his cock through the fabric of his kilt, almost making his eyes roll back in his head.  With one trembling hand, he reached to unfasten the belt that held the fabric in place.  Every muscle in his body was tensed and ready, but he forced himself to pause for just a moment.

             
“Are ye certain, lass?  Because once there is nothing at all between us, I will be a lost man.  I willna be able to stop.  I
will
make ye mine.”  His voice shook a little with all he was trying so hard to hold back.

             
She looked up at him, tracing the strong line of his jaw with her fingertips.  “Yes, give me everything, Eian Mac Coinnach.  I want to be yours.”

             
With a groan, he pulled the fabric of the kilt away and then he was naked before her.  There was nothing at all to stop him from claiming this woman as his own.

             
“Hell, Allia, I need ye so badly”, he gritted out.  “I canna wait, I canna go slowly.”  Then he took her lips again in a deep and seeking kiss that shook him to the core.  He was so hard, so ready, and yet he wanted to savor this moment.  As he kissed her even harder, Allia instinctively arched her hips, brushing against his throbbing cock, lining the head up perfectly with her center.  With a sharp intake of breath, he thrust into her, his mind already so consumed with lust that he barely registered the tearing of the barrier that had marked her a virgin.  It just felt too damn good.

             
Though there was a brief moment of pain, it was not enough to overcome the other sensations coursing through her body in waves of ecstasy.  Eian was stretching her, filling her, claiming her body with his bigger, stronger one.  But it was so much more than that.  As he began to move deep inside her, the very air around them seemed to come alive, along with every last cell of her body.  With every thrust, she felt it more, until she had no doubt what was happening.  Eian Mac Coinnach was her mate, and she was his, and they were binding themselves to one another, forever.  A great peace settled in her heart, even as she yearned for the completion that she instinctively knew would seal the bond.  It built within her, tighter and tighter as he thrust harder and faster, until she was digging her nails into Eian’s arms, trying to bring him closer, or drive him on, or both.

             
She looked up at his face, and saw that his eyes were open and he was looking at her.  She could see it in his gaze. 
He knows.  He knows what is happening, and he’s choosing to bind himself to me
.  His expression hardened as sensation began to overwhelm him, his breath coming in gasps as his entire body tensed and he gritted his teeth against the impossible intensity of the pleasure. 

             
“Oh god, Allia!  I canna… oh god…”  And then he fell over the edge, his whole body shuddering as he lost himself in her.  In turn, the pulsing of his cock within her sent Allia over the edge as well, and she let out a little cry, clinging desperately to Eian as she rode out the most pleasure she had ever felt in her life.

             
Eian looked down at her with a breathless gasp and then a slow smile of masculine satisfaction, and she smiled back at him as he gathered her in his arms and rolled so that she lay against his chest. 

             
“I never kenned…” he began, shaking his head and still breathing hard, “it could be like that.”  He leaned in to capture her lips with his in a slow, deep, decadent kiss.  “
This
is what I have been looking for, all this time.”  He kissed her again.  “Even before I kenned it, it’s always been ye I was missing.”  He kissed her lips, her cheeks, her eyes, but then stopped suddenly and drew back, as if he had suddenly remembering something.

             
Sitting up, Eian grasped her legs, pushing them apart so that he could see her bare inner thighs.  Even by the light of the moon, he could see the darker streaks of virgin blood there. 
Oh hell
.

             
His eyes rose to meet hers.  “Ye were a maid.”

             
She nodded, reaching out a hand to draw him back to her.  “Yes.”

             
Instead Eian pushed his hands through his hair and looked down at the ground, cursing under his breath.  “I didna ken… I thought… Faith told me some about women in the future, and I assumed… god, I’m sorry.  Did I hurt ye too badly?”

             
Allia smiled.  He had thought her no longer a virgin, and still he had wanted her.  That told her all she needed to know and more.  She sat up next to him and drew her hands across the smooth hardness of his chest, kissing him there.  “I was
ordered
to stay a virgin, and I was too afraid of the consequences to do otherwise.  But you didn’t hurt me, Eian.  Quite the opposite.  My first time was perfect, and I’m glad it was with you.”

             
She eased her leg over his so that she straddled his thighs and her breasts crushed against his chest as she leaned closer to kiss him.  “Are we bound to one another now?” she whispered.

             
“Aye, we are.”  Eian couldn’t help the smile that pulled at the corners of his mouth at the thought.  “And I never thought I could be this happy.  Now I ken what my brother was talking about when he found his mate.  I used to think he was crazy, but if this is madness, I’ll take it and be glad.”

             
He cupped her head in his hands and kissed her, his cock already growing achingly hard against her stomach, as if he hadn’t just come so hard he nearly died of it just minutes before.  God, he needed her again, and the passion between them was already spiraling out of control once more.  He rocked his hips against her, moaning at the tremor of pleasure that shot through him.  His hands slid over her bare skin, exploring every part, then pausing between her thighs.  His fingers moved deftly over her soft flesh until she was sobbing helplessly beneath him, begging for him to take her again.  He kissed her hard as he took both of her wrists in one hand and held them over her head.  The arch of her body against his made him grit his teeth and hiss with desire.  This was what he had dreamed about, Allia, warm and willing and pinned beneath him at his mercy.  And unbelievably, the reality was even better than the dreams had been.  He leaned in to capture her mouth as he slowly thrust himself into her, groaning at the exquisite carnal pleasure of it.  He managed to keep the achingly slow pace for only a minute before his thread of control snapped once more, and he was pounding into her with a fierce need.  But she met him stroke for stroke, thrusting her hips up to meet him and taking it all, until she threw her head back and cried out.  Eian looked down at her, and he loved that she took such pleasure from his body.