Part 23 (2/2)

She'd barely shut the window before two guards found them.

”What are you doing?” the guard demanded in a fierce, angry tone.

”We got a bit lost,” Bavel said good-naturedly. ”These French towns all look alike.”

The guard scoffed.

”Are we going back to the Sailor's Inn?” Viktor asked.

”Until the king finishes his food and is ready to depart, aye.”

Cat blessed her family for being so smart in letting her know their plans and where her father was located. Now it would be easier to avoid her father until they could leave. Grateful to them, she went back to bed only to find Lochlan giving her a peeved glare.

”What?”

”Stiff prig am I?” he asked in an offended tone.

She c.o.c.ked a brow at him. ”Would you rather I tell them exactly how unpriggish you are and why it is I know it?”

He rolled over to give her his back. ”You still could have defended me.”

Was he serious? Of course he was. There was no way he was feigning this amount of petulance.

Cat tsked at him before she reached under the covers to draw small circles on his back. ”Poor Lochlan. Everyone insults my baby.”

He didn't speak.

Nipping at his shoulder, she ran her hand around him to find out that he was indeed very stiff. He grabbed her hand as if to pull it away, but before he could, she brushed the tip of his c.o.c.k with her nails.

He let out a deep groan before he pressed her hand closer to him.

She rolled him onto his back. ”Feeling better?”

”Nay.”

She continued to stroke him. ”Not even a little?”

”Perhaps. You keep doing that, la.s.s, and I might go straight past better and into ecstasy.”

She laughed before she dipped her head to suckle his nipple lightly.

Lochlan sucked his breath in sharply as he reached to unlace her gown. A part of him argued they should be finding a s.h.i.+p for England, but the other part said the safest place was right here.

So long as her father was in town, either he or one of his men could find them. Besides, they would have to wait for Stryder and his group to return.

What better way to wait than this?

Pulling back, he quickly divested her of her gown. He growled in appreciation as he saw her beauty for the first time. Truly no woman had ever been more beautiful. He nipped playfully at her breast before he quickly undressed himself. Completely naked, he pulled her against him and savored the sensation of her skin touching his.

In that one moment, he wished that time could stop. That this was all there was to his life. He could live and die happily if all there was in the world was waking in her arms and going to sleep every night with the touch of her hand on his face.

This was perfection.

Cat closed her eyes and breathed Lochlan in as they kissed. This was the closest to heaven she would ever come without dying and she didn't want it to end.

He rolled her over, placing her on top of him. She lifted herself up so that she could stare down at his playful blue eyes. He cupped her face in his hands and stroked her lips with the pads of his thumbs. G.o.d, he was handsome and strong.

She returned his smile before she took his right hand and brought it to her lips so that she could lightly tease the pads of his fingers. She loved how his hands felt in hers. Most of all, she loved how they felt on her body.

Lochlan was torn between playing with her at his leisure and being inside her. He didn't know what it was about her, but she soothed him on a level unimaginable. She also set fire to his soul.

His impatience winning, he lifted her up and set her down on top of him.

They groaned in unison as she took him in all the way to his hilt. He ground his teeth as she moved excruciatingly slow against him. Her strokes were sweet and hesitant from her inexperience. He watched her as he moved his hand to touch her stomach. Even though he had no right to the thought, he imagined what it would be like to watch her grow round with his child.

To be by her side while she brought a babe into this world.

She would make a fierce mother, who would give him strong, confident sons...and daughters.

He smiled at the thought.

Cat frowned at the tender expression on Lochlan's face. ”What are thinking of?”

”You, my love. Only you.”

”And that makes you smile?”

”Always.”

Warmth consumed her. ”I can't believe I ever thought you priggish.”

”I can't believe I ever thought you annoying.”

She stopped and grimaced at him. ”You're an awful monster.”

”And you are the most beautiful blossom I've ever been fortunate enough to find.”

His compliment made her blush. ”You're such a cad.”

”As you wish.”

She arched a surprised brow at him. ”You're not arguing with me?”

”While I'm inside you? Nay. Honestly, I don't even know what either one of us is saying. I really don't care. My thoughts are only consumed by how good you look naked and much I love being inside you.”

She tsked at him. ”Then you'll regret later that you just promised me the leaders.h.i.+p of your clan.”

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