CORMAC TURNED UNA AROUNDgently and undid her laces.With each layer he kissed her neck, slow and deliberate, learning the curve of her shoulder, the soft skin beneath her ear, until the kirtle and the stays fell away and she stood shivering in her shift with his mouth still moving against her nape.
He turned her back to face him.
Then he stepped away and undressed before her.
Cormac watched her eyes rake over him as he shed his shirt: the widening of them, the slight catch of her breath as her gaze traveled down his chest and stomach.He slowly removed the plaid.His hardened length sprang free and her lips parted in a sharp, audible gasp.
Their eyes met.
"Are ye nervous?"he asked.
She swallowed."Ask me again in a moment."
He stepped closer and pulled her shift over her head, then put his mouth on hers before she could say another word.
***
CORMAC KISSED HIS NEWwife deeply and walked her back to the bed and laid her down, and then his mouth was on her throat, her collarbone, moving lower.He took her nipple between his lips and sucked hard as Una cried out, her back arching clean off the mattress.He pulled at it with his lips and tongue, slow and relentless, then moved to the other breast and lavished it with the same attention, harder, until Una was fisting both hands in his hair and moaning openly.Cormac gave her more.He moved his body lower, kissing down her stomach, and she felt his shoulders nudge her thighs apart.
She tensed.
"Cormac, what are ye doing?"
He took a moment to appreciate the neatly trimmed patch above her quim before his mouth devoured her.
One long, hot, wet stroke of his tongue and Una's eyes flew wide open in shock.Then his tongue circled her nub, slow and deliberate, right there, and her eyes slammed shut and her hands flew to the sheets and clutched them in white-knuckled fists.
"Oh—" The sound came out of her involuntarily."Oh blast!"
Cormac worked her with his mouth and did not stop, his tongue licking and circling that small peak with the same focused thoroughness he gave to everything, and Una's shock dissolved rapidly.Her hips rolled against his face.She was loud about it, helplessly, shamefully loud, and he groaned against her in response and the vibration of it sent her higher.
She shattered.She came with her head thrown back and her hands in his hair this time instead of the sheets, pulling him closer, his name on her lips.Cormac gentled her through it, soft strokes, letting her feel every last wave of it, then slid two fingers inside her while his tongue resumed its slow circling and she sobbed with it.
"Cormac...I can’t...I'm going to—"
Una came again, clenching around his fingers, and was still trembling when she pulled at his shoulders.
"Now," she said."Please."It was a plea for something she was not sure about.
***
CORMAC SLOWLY MOVEDover her, one forearm braced beside her head, his weight on his knees.He looked at her face, flushed, lips swollen, eyes dark and wanting, and felt the last of his control slip.
"Tell me if ye want me to stop," he said.
"No, dinnae stop," she said.
He reached between them and nudged the head of his hardened length against her entrance.She was slick and hot and he clenched his jaw against the urge to drive forward.Cormac pressed in slowly, an inch at a time, watching her face.
Her brow furrowed.Her breath came faster."Ye're too big—" She stopped."Ye're...oh—"
"Breathe," he rasped.
Una breathed.He pushed deeper and felt it, the slight barrier, and stilled, eyes locked on hers.
"Hold on to me," Cormac said.
Her arms went around his waist.Then he surged forward.
