MacRieve (Immortals After Dark) (19 page)

This was probably a bad idea, but at that moment, Chloe couldn’t recall a single reason why. If he stopped this, she was fairly certain she’d slide-tackle him.

He didn’t stop. His lips were hot on her, scorching a line up her neck.

Excitement drummed through her, her dread completely absent, her senses overloaded. She smelled the rain, the blossoms, his heady scent. How could he possibly smell so good?

When his clever tongue flicked rain from her damp skin, she wondered,
Why fight this?

She was as eager as she’d been during her first pro soccer game. She hadn’t let anything stand in her way that day, just surrendered completely to the thrill, the adrenaline, the driving need to experience everything.

She would do the same with this.
Don’t be a coward. See where this path leads you.

So far this path was making her question how she’d been living without MacRieve her entire life.

Not living. Simply existing from one game to the next.

He looped an arm around her, dragging her body tight against his, then gently took her earlobe between his teeth. Her knees went weak.

Just as she wondered if he could feel her nipples pressing against his torso, he murmured at her ear, “If this is how you react to a kiss along your neck, I wonder what will happen when I set my mouth to those pretty nipples.”

She gasped, as much from his words as from the burst of lust they caused. She couldn’t think. How did one answer a statement like that? Her mind cried:
With a kiss!

He read her thoughts, kissing across her cheek, the corner of her lips, then fully on her mouth. When she parted her lips in surprise, still so unused to all this, he took the opportunity to flick his tongue between them.

Her hands flew to his shoulders, squeezing with delight. Those muscles moved sinuously beneath her fingertips, giving her a preview of what she’d see if he removed his shirt.

With his palm tenderly cradling the entire back of her head, he eased his tongue into her mouth, carnally sweeping it against hers. When she moaned, he did it again. And again. He was teasing her to distraction.

But then he drew back, gazing down at her with a look of . . . longing?

“Why’d y-you stop?” If her sex drive had been ramping up for weeks, now it was suddenly
exploding.

Why wasn’t he making more moves? Shouldn’t he be trying to feel her boobs or something? Girls in the locker room often described guys with octopus hands.

She wanted MacRieve touching her in eight places at once!

He’d told her he’d ease her ache. She preferred he do it this century. How to initiate this? She struggled for something to say.
I need to lick you.
No.
My hand would be happier in your pants.
No!

Maybe he hesitated because he was still afraid of hurting her. “I’m, uh, tougher than I look.”

He swallowed audibly. “Ah, my lass, that’s good to know.”

My lass.
In that brogue. Stifled shudder. Near orgasm.

She almost wished she’d been with other guys when she’d had the chance, so she’d know what to do in this situation. There were soccer team fan clubs, guy boosters who made the girls gifts and held parties for them. There’d been some cute ones too. “I’ve never done anything like this before.”

He smiled that bone-melting smile. Wolfish and
pleased.
“My Chloe’s a virgin?”

Her cheeks felt like they were on fire. “Yes. Which means I don’t really know the rules of this game.”

He grazed the backs of his fingers over her blushing face. “The only rule you need to know is that nothing is out of bounds between us. Nothing.”

“Then why are you hesitating?”

“I’m savoring. I’ve been waiting my whole life—”

She buried her face against
his
neck, gave his skin a lick.

He bit out, “Verra well, I’ve savored enough.” He grabbed the hem of his shirt, yanking it up and over his head to bare a glorious sight.

Wide shoulders, rock-hard pecs, a drool-worthy eight-pack. Damp, tanned skin. An ink black goody trail disappearing into his jeans.

His
bulging
jeans. She could see the outline of his thick erection stretching to his right hip.

There’d been pinups in the locker room; this guy made those physique models look like wannabes.

And he desired
her.
It was stamped on his face, in every line of his magnificent body.

Chloe knew well what it took for a man to have muscles like that, and she wanted to show him how much she appreciated this view of perfection. But she didn’t know how.

Luckily, he took charge. He spread his shirt on the clover-covered hill beneath the cherry tree. “Down you go, baby.” He easily swooped her up and laid her upon it.

“Can anyone see us?”

He knelt beside her. “I would scent anyone who got close. It’s just us.” With a pained expression, he adjusted his shaft until it pointed up, the head and a few inches emerging past the waist of his jeans.

She sucked in a breath at the sight, squeezing her thighs together. Her mind momentarily blanked to just one thought:
big,
too
big.

Superhuman? Oh, yeah. The crown was broad and taut, moistened
across the slit. Veins swelled just beneath that flaring head. She was desperate to see more, to touch it. To taste it.

She wanted to twirl her tongue around it like a candy cane.

“Off with this.” He pulled her shirt from her, tossing it away. “I’m hankering to see those breasts of yours.”

She arched her back when he reached for her bra clasp.

Once he’d bared her, he stared with such hunger that her breasts seemed to swell for him, aching for his big rough hands to cover them. At the thought, she whimpered, thrusting them out.

He bit out something in Gaelic that sounded like a curse. His shaft pulsed, more moisture beading the head. Voice hoarse, he said, “You’re a vision, love.”

She got the impression that he was making an effort to remember to talk to her. What did he usually do in these kinds of situations? Again, she sensed that he was nervous, as if he was trying to remember a thousand things as he went about this.

He peeled her damp jeans off her, lifting her to tug them past her ass, leaving her in black lace panties.

More staring.

“Am I . . .”—she swallowed—“am I what you were hoping for? After all this time?”

His brows were drawn tight. He had to clear his throat before he could say, “Much more than that. And my hopes were sky-fucking-high.” His gaze was so fixed on her straining nipples, she could almost feel it. She wanted to ask him to lick her there, to suck on her.

“Is this, um, different from what you normally do with women?” She might’ve expected a shade more . . . smoothness.

“Verra different. You could say night and day.” Then he tensed. “Why would you ask that? You doona like how I am with you?” So much was going on behind his closed expression, but she couldn’t decipher any of it.

“You seem a little nervous.”

His tension eased. “I’ve only one day to convince you to stay, remember?”

“That so?” She impatiently arched her back. “The game clock’s ticking, MacRieve.”

With a groan, he straddled his arms on either side of her waist and lowered his head. He pressed kisses over the mounds of her breasts, circling licks up to her stiff nipples.

Her breaths shallowed. This was so much better than dreams! When his tongue finally dragged over one nipple, she cried out, shivering with bliss. She laced her fingers through his hair, tugging his head closer, earning a harsh growl around a peak.

Yet when his hand slipped into her panties, she tensed. Not because she didn’t want his touch—her body was screaming for it—but because this was unfamiliar to her.

“Relax, baby.” He nuzzled one breast. “I will no’ hurt you.” He petted the hair down there. “Have you ever had a man kiss you here . . . ?”

EIGHTEEN

No. Am I about to?” Chloe asked, her eyes flashing with excitement.

“Oh, aye,” Will said, nipping at her breast. With her head slightly raised against the hill’s slope, she could look down at him, seeing everything. “I’m goin’ tae lick you between your pretty thighs till you scream for me.”

His hand shook in her tiny panties as he inched his fingers lower.
My mate, just before me, my mouth at her breasts.
Lower. Will could scarcely believe it. Lower. The afternoon had taken on a dreamlike quality.

His fingers discovered plump, wet folds. Her cunny was weeping for him. “Gods almighty, woman.” He cupped her possessively. Wetness soaked his hand, making his cock pulse. Pre-cum gathered on the head, drawing her heavy-lidded gaze.

As he began to fondle her, she moaned, her eyes locked on his shaft. “Ah, lass, you’re looking at my cock like you want tae give it a suck.”

Another blush answered him. She bloody did! He shuddered to imagine her reddened lips wrapped around his length.

Control!
Must keep control. . . .
For her, he could do this. In the future, they’d figure out something; for now, he just wanted to pleasure her. To
have this afternoon between them. “I would dearly love tae feel that! And soon I’ll let you have your fill of it. But my beast and I are dancing the razor’s edge today.”

“You’re not getting undressed?”

Keep the beast in check.
“I canna get too carried away, love.” He hooked his forefingers under the sides of her panties, tugging them down . . . revealing a trim thatch of tawny curls that made his mouth water.

When he had her completely unclothed, he gazed with disbelief. Had he called her
cute
?

Try
exquisite.

Her skin was smooth and golden, a fascinating shade against her unusual multicolored eyes and sun-streaked hair. Falling cherry blossoms kissed her flat belly, her breasts, her lips.

She sighed, “I can feel them,” as her lids slid shut.

He watched in awe as slick, white petals slipped down her body. One hugged the curve of her left breast.

Her right nipple was capped with a fragile petal, white against swollen-with-need red.

But her scent called to him. He turned to the silken petals between her thighs, jaw slackening at the sight of her glistening flesh. “You could no’ be lovelier, lass. The things I plan tae do tae you . . .” As he moved between her knees, he licked his lips, feeling like a slavering beast about to ravish a beauty.

The beauty said only,
“Please.”

He lowered his head and set in. With his first lick, she moaned low; he nearly ejaculated in his pants. Her taste was the most delectable he’d ever had upon his tongue. “Chloe! Gods, you’re like honey tae me.” Like silk dipped in honey, then drizzled upon his ready tongue.

Perfection. He lapped her up. “Been waiting forever for this.”

When he rubbed his tongue over her budding little clitoris, she cried, “Oh, God! Please don’t stop that.”

No’ a chance of it.
His cock strained against the waistband of his jeans, about to rip them.
The beast clawed at him. To stay present in this, Will would claw back. He spread her thighs wider, covering her clit with his mouth, rolling his tongue over it again and again.

He realized he was growling against her when she said, “What are you
doing
to me?”

He drew back. “Do you no’ like it?”

“I love it!” Yet then she fretted her bottom lip. “A-are you okay? Your eyes are blue.”

Looking into
her
eyes centered him, focused him. Without breaking his stare, he licked lower, delving at her honeyed entrance. To his amazement, the beast was standing down, appeased with this, as if fed a particularly toothsome treat.
In this, beast, we agree.
Against her flesh, Will said, “I’m no’ going anywhere.”

“Are you sure, MacRieve?”

“And miss my Chloe coming for the first time with me?”

She shyly said, “First time with anyone,” and his heart thudded.

“I’ll make this good for you. I swear it.” He wanted to torment her with pleasure, to make her never want to leave the source of it.