“But look at the state of you! You are in no condition to be riding for the next eight hours in this ill-sprung hack. It’ll jostle you to death!”
“It’s nae the hack that will be the death of me, Mary.”
“I do not understand.” A delicate frown furrowed her brow and Gabe’s control snapped.
“I cannae—” He broke off as he crushed his bruised lips to hers in an all-encompassing kiss.
His breath came heavily through his lust-flared nostrils as his tongue tangled with hers.
Without breaking their kiss, Gabe sank to his knees on the carriage floor before her, pulling her skirts up past her thighs. With trembling fingers he fumbled with the buttons of his falls.
“But your fever,” she broke their kiss to gasp.
Gabe shook his head. “’Tis nae a fever, Mary. ‘Tis want, plain and simple. I want ye…so badly.”
“Oh,” she breathed. “Oh, yes, Gabe.”
Finallyfree, he reached beneath her skirts to slide her arse toward the edge of the seat. The seat was just at the right height for him to slide himself deep within her silken heat and kiss her soft mouth simultaneously. They fit perfectly.
She moaned against his lips as he reached the hilt. He responded with a soul-deep growl before pumping frantically into her, taking exactly what he craved, what heneeded. And, by damn, did he need her.
His fingers dug into her hips as he drove into her, again and again.
Breaking their kiss, Mary’s head dropped backward, exposing the soft underside of her jaw and her beautifully arched neck. He bent forward, following the line of her throat with his tongue, still pumping deep into the depths of her womanhood.
“Tha gaol agam ort, Mary,” Gabe whispered in Gaelic against her neck.I love you, Mary.
She moaned as he thrust faster.
“Bheir mi gràdh thu fad mo bheatha. You agus cha robh duine eile.”I will love you my whole life. You and no other.
He felt the force of his completion build to fever pitch, but he held back.
Desperate, he released her arse with one hand to rub his thumb into her sweet folds.
“Oh,” she breathed. “Oh, Gabe!”
Her breath came in erratic huffs as she clenched around him. He watched as she came apart, her body tensing as her pleasure took her.
Gabe let himself go, holding her tightly against him as he pumped his seed deep inside her.
