“When was the last time you visited the Palisades, Your Highness?” I ask with a smirk.
“Years, Alexis,” he nods, eyes alight and holding mine as he jumps off his step.
He walks forward slowly as my own feet take a few steps back. His gaze rakes down my neck and the thin dress covering my chest before landing on that perfect spot between my thighs. I take another step back and shake my head in denial, knowing that look and what he intends as I quickly set off in a run through the tunnel.
Keane chuckles at my back, giving me a head start, and I barely make it halfway down before his arms wrap around my waist from behind. He lifts me up and turns me in his hold, walking us to the side wall before crashing my back into the stone. His hands lower to my hips in a firmgrip before he quickly brings one of his thighs up between my legs. I moan at the friction and throw my arms around his shoulders, letting him pin me to the wall with his chest against mine.
Keane leans in with a smirk, gripping my sides before his lips rest casually next to my ear. “Do you remember when you told me in Gaumond that you wished to see me standing under the Great Oak?”
“Yes,” I nod breathlessly, letting my body fall deeper on his thigh for support.
“Well I wish to see you standing naked on my balcony in the Palisades,” his tongue darts out to lick my neck, hips thrusting into mine, “I have a small residence here, Alexis. It’s been years since I’ve visited, but the next time I do will be with you. I will take you under the open sky and high above the mountain where no one will hear your screams of my name.”
“Fuck,Keane.”
I roll my hips into his, letting one of my hands jut up to the back of his neck to pull his head closer.
“Sixteen, trouble,” he bites the sensitive area below my ear and then brings his tongue out to soften the damage, “sixteen times I’ve been denied you fully. Each demanding repayment.”
I groan and close my eyes, letting his lips on my neck tug violently at the ache between my legs. Keane’s hands on my waist pull my hips against his thigh, grinding me over him as the friction rubs in the sweetest way. I moan when those hands move more aggressively up to my chest, his palms cupping under my breasts as I arch my back against the wall. Keane smiles against my neck, kissing and nipping hungerly, and flattens his calloused hands against my collarbone before he fiddles with the thin straps on my shoulders.
He pulls the straps swiftly down my arms, his hips thrusting into mine and pinning me tighter. His hands rake down the sides of my body as my bare breasts flush perfectly for him, the moans falling from my lips needing him to claim me quick.
“When, Keane?” I ask breathlessly.
Keane pulls away from my neck and glances down, his gaze falling to my perked nipples that are waiting for his torment. I push my chest forward and run my fingers through the back of his hair in desperation, greeting his throbbing cock when he thrusts it between my legs.
“When?” I repeat, grabbing his hair more firmly.
Keane brings his heated gaze directly on mine, his brown eyes intense and reading.
“You say the word, Alexis…”
He moves his hands slowly back up my body, skimming the sides of my breasts before he grabs both sides of my jaw.
“Say the word and we will be riding for Gaumond in swiftness. A slight detour to Woodlands, but one that has to happen.”
Keane watches me carefully, his eyes asking if I understand his words. He’ll ride hard with me to Gaumond just to spend the night under theShadow Oak, then we’ll take the hard ride back to Bardot only to resume our scheduled travel to Woodlands.
I nod earnestly in agreement, knowing that I can’t wait much longer.
“Do you have meetings tomorrow?” my voice is quiet,flushed,eyes searching his as my heart pounds hard in my chest.
Keane nods, gripping the sides of my face as he leans down and takes my bottom lip into his mouth, “nothing that could not be postponed for a few days.”
I give a shuddering breath, “and the others?”
Keane kisses me deeply, one hand releasing my jaw as it moves slowly down my neck.
“They will just have to wait here for us,” he whispers into my lips.
“You and your ego,” I shake my head with a laugh.
Keane pushes his tongue into my mouth, kissing me with pure desire as both hands capture my breasts and squeeze them fully. He takes my nipples and twists them hungrily, capturing my moan on his tongue and sending a jolt of fire between my thighs.
“What do you want, Alexis?” he breaks away from the kiss, hands squeezing my chest again as his fingers play with my nipples.
You, my mind screams,always you.
