She wasn’t able to finish for he had raised himself up to kiss her, both hands holding her face as his mouth plundered hers.
She sensed a turbulence in him now and wondered if she’d hurt him not to answer him more readily, but a ripping sound made her forget all else when he tore her nightgown from her body.
Conall still kissing her as he drew her down atop him, his tongue demanding entrance, her bare breasts pressed into the hardness of his chest.
The tenderness she had felt had fled and in its place, a man ravenous to possess her, his kiss only deepening with a wildness that filled her with sudden anguish.
Ah, God, she had hurt him!She tried to pull away to finish what she had meant to say, but he held her so tightly, his arms steely around her while his kiss grew more impassioned.
Lisette could do naught else but surrender to him and return his kiss with equal fervor, which made him groan against her mouth.
Later she would tell him how much she loved him, but for now…
Lisette gasped, all thought fleeing as his hand slipped beneath their bodies to tease the spot already slick and yearning for him.
It had been too long—too longfor her, too!
She gasped again when his fingers retreated and he lifted her hips with both hands to guide her down upon him, Conall thrusting upward with the hardness of his body.
Filling her with the length of him, the thickness of him, while Lisette trembled from head to foot, moaning against his mouth.
He had not for one instant ceased to kiss her, his tongue spearing into her even as his thrusts quickened and deepened…until his body grew stiff beneath her and a ragged groan burst from his throat.
Her own outcry echoed his release, Lisette so blinded by the ecstasy that shook her, she could but collapse upon him dizzying moments later.
Breathless.
Her fingers tunneled into the sweat-damped hair upon his chest.
The strong thud of his heartbeat against her ear.
Their bodies still joined and a warm wetness slicking her inner thighs from the seed that he’d spilled inside her.
She couldn’t move and she didn’t try to…Conall still embracing her though she felt him relax beneath her, his breathing gradually becoming slow and sated.
She heard a low rumble from his chest and knew he had succumbed to sleep, the tumult of the day catching up with him even as her own eyelids drifted closed.
She kissed him then…where his steady heartbeat lulled her, Lisette’s fervent whisper to him slowly fading.
“Je t’aime, Conall…je t’aime.”
“I hate you, Euan MacCulloch…hate you.”
Hissing under her breath, Isabeau tried to shift her naked body away from her husband’s, but there was no use.In sleep, his arm lay heavily upon her like a dead weight—mon Dieu, how she wished he was dead and she was free of him!
Her jewels retrieved and mayhap Lisette dead, too, for all the trouble her bastard half-sister had cost her.If only the right time had presented itself already, each passing day to Isabeau a mounting torment.
Each passing hour, she amended, feeling nothing but disgust that Euan had rutted upon her again.
She had always thought she would enjoy lovemaking after learning to pleasure herself long before she was wed, the shivering sensations, the delicious climaxes, but her husband’s constant demands upon her now only turned her stomach.
Five or six times a day, she was sickened by it!She could still hear the coarse snickering of his men outside the tent that served as her and Euan’s private quarters aboard ship, their forty-oar vessel anchored in a secluded cove.
She supposed that she should be grateful to him for allowing her to accompany him north to Argyll—but it hadn’t been due to anything she had said to convince him.He didn’t trust her any more than she trusted him, yet mayhap it was more that he enjoyed his lustful dominance over her far too much to have left her behind in Dumfries.
“Disgusting lout,” Isabeau grated to herself, relieved at least that Euan’s arm had fallen away from her when he rolled onto his back and began to snore.
Right then and there she wanted to press a pillow to his face with all the strength she possessed and have done with him, not just to silence the repulsive noises coming out of his mouth.Regrettably, it wasn’t time to rid herself of her husband, but she would—oui, she had vowed it!
