“It’s nae the same.”
“I ken, but it’s something.”
“Kai, I –” She was going to argue more with him, yet he was done with arguing. He was done with all the frustration and throwing their anger around. All he wanted washer,and as she wanted that too, why should they hold back?
He cut her off by kissing her, taking her lips with his own.
It was as if with that one kiss he had ignited a fire. Rather than her pushing him off, as he had half expected her to, her hands gripped him hard on the shoulders, pulling him down toward her. For a change, she dominated the kiss, taking his tongue with her own and moving him backward. Before Kai knew what was happening, he was backed against a tree, Ava pressed against him, as he panted against her lips.
“Nay one kens I’m out here,” she whispered, pulling back just a little. She trailed a hand down the center of his chest. His length had hardened at once, knowing exactly what that hand was doing.
“A few minutes together? Aye, I’ll take anything I can get with ye,” he whispered, then her hand passed over the hardness in histrews. He growled in the back of his throat as she stood on tiptoe and kissed him again.
One of his hands snaked around her back, bending her a little as he kissed her. Her hand was now running faster over his trews. He hadn’t thought it was possible to become any harder, but he did at her touch. Such heat traveled through his body that he didn’t care about the fact it was snowing, nor that it was freezing outside. He just wanted her touch, here and now, for it was the only taste they could have of one another.
He reached down between them, one of his hands releasing the fastening of his trews. She took his cue without hesitation, reaching in through the flap to take hold of his length.
He had to pull back from their kiss as the moan escaped him. Her hand tightened around him, moving softly. He wanted her touch harder, and faster, but he would never ask her for something she was not willing to give. He tipped back his head, marveling at the way such a simple touch from her was making his abdomen tight with anticipation.
“Kai,” she whispered, sidling toward him a little more as she released him. Her hips brushed his own. She didn’t need to say anymore. It was a pleading tone, showing him that she wanted exactly the same thing he did.
He took hold of her skirt and began to raise it, bundling it around her hips and exposing her legs to the wind. His fingers brushed the backs of her thighs and he gripped her rear, pullingher toward him and loving the way that she gasped at his touch, her head tipping back as she indulged in it.
He used his grip on her to turn the two of them around, so she ended up facing the tree, her hands against the trunk, as he stood behind her. One of his hands kept her skirt around her waist as his other gripped her hip. He just rocked himself against her rear for a minute, so she could feel how hard for her he was.
“We can stop,” he assured her.
This was rough. Even the suggestion of taking her out here in the snow was something he didn’t think he’d be asking of her, but the need was overwhelming.
“Dinnae dare stop,” she threatened. “Please!”
She rocked back against him. He felt a hint of her wetness against his length, and he groaned aloud.
He reached down between them, his fingers reaching for her center. He couldn’t believe how wet and warm she was for him, inviting him in. He pushed his fingers deep, wanting to stretch her first, so that he wouldn’t hurt her.
He had hated hurting her the first time. He pressed gently with two fingers and she rocked back against him much further, taking his fingers inside of her. The sight of her wanting him so badly made heat boil in his body. He loved watching her, seeing that she needed him as badly as he needed her.
“Take what ye want, Ava,” he encouraged her, moving his fingers to the rhythm she set up. She bent her head forward, gripping the tree as she rocked back against him, harder and faster now. His length twitched desperately for her. When her moans grew louder, when she started to say his name, he couldn’t restrain himself anymore.
He moved his fingers around, reaching up to that sensitive spot just outside of her, as he drove his length inside of her. The instant warmth and wetness had him groaning aloud, moving as fast inside of her as she had moved against him seconds before.
It was a moment full of need. They both rocked fast, as his fingers circled that spot, he knew would drive her wild. Her head was thrashing side to side now, that blonde hair which drove him so mad tossing from side to side. With his other hand, he reached out, taking the end of the braid and wrapping it around his hand. At the soft tug he gave, she moaned even more, her body tightening on his length as she thrust back against him.
He was going to lose his sense of control any second. He had lost control before inside of her, he had risked a child with her. This time, he would not be so foolish. He would keep her safe, no matter what, but first… he had to see her release. If he had to watch her marry another man, then he would attend that wedding knowing that Laird Grant would never make her scream his name the way that she screamed Kai’s.
He moved his fingers faster, in time with the way he thrust inside of her, as his other hand moved from her hair to the small of her back, marveling at the toned curves he could reach justbeneath her raised gown. Then she tightened. Her whole body gripped his length hard as she toppled over the edge.
Kai gritted his teeth to restrain himself, rocking her throughout her climax. When she was done, her moans having faded and gripping to the tree, he pulled himself free and pumped himself just once. He finished in the snow, closing his eyes and imagining he was still inside the warmth of Ava’s body.
As his body softened, he rested a palm against the tree trunk over her head. That touch roused her, and they both moved, turning toward one another and embracing tightly as he capitulated against the tree, needing it to keep himself straight. Most of his blood didn’t seem to be in his head anymore, meaning he found it difficult to keep standing.
“Ava.”
“Aye?” she said between gasping breaths as she leaned into him, their hands grasping together so their fingers were intertwined.
“I want tae marry ye,” the words tumbled from his lips. “If I find a way, nay matter the consequences, would ye marry me?”
“Of course I would. I would love nothing more… If we find a way.” She closed her eyes and rested her head against his shoulder.
