Highlander's Seduction (The Matheson Brothers Book 3)

by Wadsworth, Joanne

  “Everything happens in its own time, and usually for a very good reason. At least now we need never look back but only forward.” He swept his hands under her bottom, bent his head and pressed a soft kiss to her belly. “In order to complete the bond, we need to be skin on skin.”

  “Aye, I’m aware.”

  “Is there a chance you could conceive?”

  “I’ve never aged past my twentieth year, not physically at least, so there is a chance, although a rather slim one. Due to my immortality, my courses fall years apart.”

  “Yet Amelia has given birth.” He raised a curious brow.

  “Aye. So too she’s only conceived the once and she willnae have another chance to do so again until a new cycle begins. That could be in ten, twenty or thirty years from now. There’s no telling when, only that it shall be quite some time away.”

  “You’ve known Amelia a long time?”

  “Over a thousand years. She’s been by my side, right through to the future. In truth, she found Olaf during a visit to the past only ten years ago, which is why she now lives here in this time. Joseph was born nine years ago, present, past and future included.”

  “I see.” He smiled, although a look of longing still shadowed his eyes as he did. “I wish for children with you, at some point in time.”

  “Then you shall need to bed me, quite frequently, if you wish to ensure we’re given the optimum chance for that to occur.”

  He grinned and kissed the tip of her nose. “That I can do. You mentioned when we met that Joseph too is an immortal. How is that possible?”

  “Even though we can only spell one soul to ours, that of our soul bound mate, from the moment Joseph was conceived, his very soul became entwined with Amelia’s in her womb through the natural bond of mother and child. That soul bond has never been severed or broken. In fact, their bond has only strengthened over the years.”

  “So any children we might have will be as you are, an immortal?”

  “Aye, as we both will be.”

  “Then I give you fair warning.” He touched his forehead to hers. “I intend for us to always be skin on skin. One day we’ll raise a family of our own, children who’ll travel through time with us. We’ll have a whole tribe to aid us in doing your duty.”

  A depth of wonder filled her. ’Twas a dream she’d never considered. “Give me your promise that will be so.”

  “You have my absolute word, one which will always stand firm.” He caught her hands, stretched her arms over her pillowed head and held them there. “Now, no moving for you. I want you to lie back, relax and think only of us soon being together and joined as we both desire. Although before that happens, I intend to taste every inch of you, to know your body as if it were my own.”

  “My body is already yours and was from the moment we met. I would never have been able to give you up, was a fool for thinking I could.” She stretched and sank deeper into the mattress. “I want you, Kirk, all of you.”

  “Perfect, because I want all of you.” Carefully, he raised her legs, hooked them over his shoulders until her bottom lifted off the bed and she lay fully exposed to him. His black hair became a silky brush against her skin as he lowered his head between her open thighs. “You’re so pink and lush, beyond tempting and completely beautiful.”

  She’d never had a man so enraptured by her. “What are you going to do?”

  “You should be asking what I’m not going to do.” Grinning, he caressed along her inner thighs, parted her folds and slowly eased one finger deep inside her. The sweet invasion made her wriggle down to push his finger in further. “You like this?”

  “Aye. There will be naught I willnae adore at your hand. That I can promise you. Your touch is sublime.”

  “Still, I want you to tell me what feels good and what doesn’t. I only want to bring you pleasure this night.” He stroked inside her harder and faster, then rubbed his thumb across her nub until she moaned in delight.

  “That feels wonderful, but I need more,” she panted.

  “Like this?” He added a second finger then dipped his head and breathed in her scent. “Hell, you smell incredible, like the sweetest honey. I have to taste you, before my bear goes stir crazy.” He licked her flesh then purred and dived in deeper. Thrusting his fingers so deliciously inside her, he kissed her in the most intimate of ways. Pleasure radiated through her core and rippled outward. She could barely keep still, her hips moving in a rhythm all on their own.

  “Oh, sooo good.” Her lashes fluttered down and she lowered her arms and cradled his head in her hands.

  “You’re a feast unlike any I’ve ever tasted.” With deep and seductive strokes, he moved, every flick of his tongue and rub of his fingers making her gasp and move toward a peak that lay so temptingly close. Her desire built, higher and higher until she could barely hold onto any thought.

  “Kirk.” She needed to touch him too, desperately. Swiftly, she found the hard length of his cock then caressed his rigid flesh. He was so hot and hard and she wanted his shaft pushing deep inside her, as hard and fast as he could. “Please, kiss me. I want your mouth on mine and every inch of your body pressing down on me.”

  “I’m coming, my imp.” He lifted up, took her mouth in a hot kiss even as he continued to rub his fingers over her nub so wickedly and wonderfully below.

  “I need you inside me. I cannae wait any longer.” An orgasm beckoned and she teetered on the very edge of a precipice she could barely hold onto.

  “Are you sure you’re ready?”

  “More than ready.”

  “Then open wider for me.” With his hands on her hips, he nudged his cock along her slick folds. With a delectably teasing smile on his lips, his gaze filled with desire, he rubbed his cock over her nub.

  “Be mine,” she whispered as something battered at her mind, demanding entrance.

  “Always.” He squeezed his eyes shut then grimaced as if in pain. “My mind demands the merged link.”

  “Then give it to me.” She wrapped her legs around his waist and gripped his butt.

  “I want you, only you, Cherub.” He plunged inside her, tore through her barrier below and as he did, his mind barreled into hers as he joined them together, their minds and bodies as one.

  So completely bare and open to him, she rejoiced as his mind tunneled deep inside hers and created a private pathway that would only ever be theirs. ’Twas the most stunning connection, one she grabbed ahold of and cemented within her own mind. Along the link, she whispered into his mind, “There will be none who can ever part us, no’ now.”

  “You’re my mate, the other half of my soul.” He licked along her lower lip and liquid heat surged through her core. Then he deepened their kiss, so reverently, so breathtakingly.

  “I feel so incredibly full, and also so at peace.” Her heart and soul could barely contain the sheer depth of intense emotions rolling through her. “I never want to let you go.”

  “My search for you is done, and our life together can now finally begin.” With his hands on the bed either side of her head, he eased back then carefully pushed all the way back in, right to the hilt. “Hell, that feels phenomenal, like every inch of me is on fire and sparking where we touch.”

  “You are right where you belong.” Her lashes fluttered down.

  “No, don’t close your eyes. I love seeing you look at me.” He increased his pace, moving deeper. “I also want you to keep your mind open to mine, to let me see your thoughts so I can ensure your pleasure. It’s my right to give it to you, and I intend to do so.”

  “There’s almost too much pleasure, yet I still cannae wait for more.” She clung to him, her arms wrapped tightly around his neck and her legs firm around his hips as he thrust deep. He pounded into her and as he did, he laved the skin of her neck then sucked it between his lips. The thought of his bite sent such tortuously sweet sensations thrumming through her and when she shared them, he cupped the back of her head and brought her mouth to his neck.
/>   “I want you to bite me, Cherub, the very moment I bite you, for us to always bear each other’s marks.”

  “I want that too.” His enticing words had her rocking underneath him. She couldn’t halt her body’s need to move as one with him and when he scraped his teeth back and forth over her racing pulse, she did the same with him.

  “Do it, my love.” He bit down and a fiery blast of pleasure consumed her.

  Clasping him tight, she bit him in return and he roared his pleasure and plunged even deeper inside her, his pace feverish and his thoughts a whirlwind of pure heat blustering in and around her own. More, she wanted more, and so did he. She read it clearly in his mind. She clamped down on the other side of his neck and marked him again and he bit her hard and fast in return. She cried out at the intense joining, his bite making her channel tighten so exquisitely, and unable to hold on, she careened over the edge and flew to the stars, her inner muscles squeezing and dragging his cock to her core.

  “You’re my mate, my lover, the other half of my soul.” He bellowed and sank balls-deep inside her, his seed pulsing from him in one long hot stream that coated her womb. “Speak the spell and ensure we’re never separated again.”

  Aye, never would she allow a separation, not now. He would become an immortal as she too was. Looking deep into his eyes, she began, “From this moment forward, I hereby bind Kirk Matheson’s soul to mine. Give me a piece of his inner light so that I might guide and watch over him, throughout all of time. He is mine, just as I am his.”

  A bright light shimmered from around his form and tendrils separated from his body and floated toward her. She breathed them inside her body and allowed the merging of all that they were, heart, body and soul. “No more separation,” she whispered to him. “’Tis done. We are one, in every way.”

  “No more separation.” He grinned and kissed her and she kissed just as feverishly back.

  * * * *

  As he kissed his woman, Kirk locked his mind and body tight around Cherub’s. So many intense sensations had stormed through him when she’d spoken the spell to bind his soul to hers. He’d even sensed the very moment when a piece of him had lifted free and been taken deep inside her. Then he’d cleaved to her and she to him.

  “There’s something I need to say,” he murmured against her lips as he rocked gently inside her, as he attempted to bring them both back down from the heights they’d soared to. “I wish to reaffirm my vow to you. Cherub, from this day forward, I will honor your needs above my own, to give you what you so dearly desire and to ensure you never falter in your duty to your people. I also give you all that I am, my love and devotion, completely and fully.”

  “I have something to say to you as well.” She caught his face between her hands and kissed him. “Kirk, from this day forward, I promise to keep your soul safe and to never allow another to harm you. I also give you all that I am, all my love and devotion. There is none other for me…other than you.”

  “Hell, I want to take you all over again.” His cock stirred and lengthened inside her. “Only I don’t wish to hurt you anymore than I already have.” He pulled back and she tightened her hold around him, wrapping her legs firmer around his hips and her arms around his neck.

  “No leaving me. I love the feel of you deep inside. You are where you belong.”

  “As I adore being right where I am, but I tore your maidenhead and I’ve a desperate need to ensure you are well. Allow me to take care of you.” He eased from her and this time she allowed it, even though a tear leaked from her eye as he lifted free.

  “It hurts to be apart.” Her anguish at their separation pounded down their link toward him.

  “I won’t be a moment.” It pained him as well, the wrench in his chest a burning one. He rinsed out a cloth in the basin of water and tenderly wiped her clean. She enthralled him, from her wide blue eyes he wished to drown in, to her beautiful creamy skin that sparkled, and her addictive fresh scent he wanted to smother himself in.

  “You’ve had your moment, Kirk. Come back here, now.” She dragged him back to her and kissed him, all luscious pouty lips and soft murmurs as she demanded more of his exquisite touch.

  Damn. It would be near impossible not to lose all control with her, to bury himself so deeply inside her he never emerged. “You must be sore.”

  “I’m in desperate pain. ” Smiling, she pushed him onto his back and crawled on top of him, her glorious golden locks falling forward and sweeping across his chest. “Except for more of you. Now this is better. I can ensure you dinnae move away from me while I’m in this position on top.”

  “There are dark smudges under your eyes. You spent all night with me and didn’t catch a wink of sleep. I should be taking more care of you.” He swept her hair over her shoulders until every inch of her beautiful body was on stunning display. The way she straddled his hips and wriggled against his groin, her sensuous move making her slit rub the base of his erect cock wedged between them, was more than he could handle. He palmed her breasts, so heavy and full and completely impossible to ignore. “Lean forward, my love.”

  “As you wish.” She eased forward and he grazed a finger from between her breasts to her belly then back again. Her breathing quickened and he lifted up a touch and captured one nipple in his mouth. He sucked the pebbled treasure deep inside his mouth then ever so gently, he stroked one finger through the golden curls covering her entrance and caressed her clit.

  Squirming, she giggled. “Oh, that tickles. I’m feeling so sensitive right now.”

  She eased back and he lost his precious hold on her as she knelt between his legs, slid her hand around his cock and rubbed her breasts either side of his shaft.

  “What are you doing?”

  “I’m about to love you as you loved me.” Peeking through her long lashes, she raised an alluring brow and the promise in her blue eyes sparkled with delicious intent. “Let me know if you dinnae like this.”

  Head dipped, she licked him in one long teasing stroke from base to flaring tip.

  He groaned, long and low as he pushed against her for more. “I’ll love anything you do, except I’m not sure how much of this I’ll be able to handle.”

  “I need to touch you, just as you touched me.” She cupped his balls, so softly, then caressing them, she settled her lips over his head and took him deep. A hot burn sizzled through his blood, all the way to his balls.

  “Cherub.” His cock went rock hard as her sweet mouth tortured him. She moved, her rhythm sheer perfection and her desire-filled thoughts rolling through his mind as she sent them winging toward him. She wanted to bring him to the brink of release just like this, right before he tasted her in the same way. Then she wished for him to thrust deep inside her channel below and make her fly.

  She sucked him harder and he pushed deeper inside her mouth, until a sexual haze blurred his vision. She was a minx, and it was time to take back the control. He flipped her onto her back, planted his head between her thighs and grinned at the sight of her luscious pink folds lit a beautiful golden-red by the firelight. With her legs widened, he licked the plump nub awaiting his touch.

  She gasped and wriggled. “I wasnae done.”

  “Too bad, because I have a bear greedy for more of you.” With her clit between his lips, he smothered her in attention until she moaned and rocked her hips.

  “I feel too much.”

  “So do I, and it’s sheer bliss.” He reached up and played with her nipples, the tips so incredibly pink and pointing upward. Needing another taste of those too, he rose up over top of her and devoured every lush inch of her breasts. He nipped and left his mark and she moaned for more each time he did, her back arching as she held his head to her breasts and pressed her nipples deeper into his mouth.

  “Kirk, I want you inside me again. Dinnae deny me.”

  He couldn’t, didn’t have a chance of doing so.

  His cock hammered at him for release and he grazed her hot flesh with his shaft, the head leak
ing pre-come.

  “Aye, you’re so close.” She seized his butt, bucked against him and pulled him into her.

  What his woman wanted was impossible for him not to give. She thrashed underneath him and his balls tightened and need pulsed. Crying out his name, she came, her inner muscles clamping down on him and he pounded into her and spurted his essence in one long hot rush. “You’re mine,” he whispered, “always mine.”

  “Aye, and never shall we be parted again.” Her eyelids drifted down and she curled up against him and yawned. “I feel so sleepy.”

  “Then rest, my love. Sleep as long as you like. I’m not going anywhere and neither are you.”

  Sleep took her and gently, he tucked her against his chest, right next to his heart which would forever be hers. Beyond content with her in his arms, his soul bound to hers, he gave in and allowed sleep to claim him too.

  Peace. The most incredible wave of peace washed through him.

  Chapter 9

  The chirping of birds and the warmth of sunlight drifted into Cherub’s chamber and stirred her from her sleep. She stretched and caught her breath. Muscles not used before ached in protest, although the discomfort flittered away as the heat at her back and her mate’s wonderfully spicy scent wrapped fully around her.

  She wriggled around and faced him and he grumbled in his sleep, slid one muscled leg over hers to keep her in place then purred. His possessive hold made her pulse race, as did the sight of his jaw holding a dark razz of stubble and the wayward lock of inky-black hair curled cutely across his forehead. On one high cheek, a loose eyelash sat. She dabbed it with one fingertip, held it to her lips and gently blew on it. Swirling the air in the room, she sent his lash floating on the breeze, out the window and soaring high into the sky.

  She dissolved into the air and reappeared at the windowsill, swept the current carrying his lash ever higher then made a wish on it. “Please,” she whispered, “aid me in ensuring all those who now sense the mated bond taking form, to find their chosen ones.”