Warm liquid seeped onto her tongue as his harsh groan split the air.
“You’re going to be the death of me, wife. Cease this torture, for I cannot take any more.”
“I know not what you speak of, husband,” she said innocently. “ ’Tis for you to show me the way of things.”
He reached down, grasped her arms, and dragged her up his body. He found her mouth in a heated, impatient rush. Breathless. Raw. Bone-melting and shiver-inducing.
She wrapped her arms around his neck and returned his kiss with a fervor equal to his own.
He turned and carried her to the bed, his mouth never leaving hers. “ ’Tis what I like most about you, lass. You give no quarter in loving. You’re so passionate and wild in your responses.”
She landed with a thump and he came down over her, his body pressing urgently to hers.
“And here I thought ’twas my submissive side you liked so well,” she teased.
“ ’Tis the entire package. You can be so devilishly coy and yet so sweetly innocent that you make me daft with wanting.”
He kissed her neck, sucking wetly at her pulse before nibbling a path to her ear.
“You’re an unselfish lass. Willing to do much to please me. I’ve never had a woman willing to put my pleasure before hers.”
She thumped him on the chest and scowled. “Now ’tis not the time to speak of other women. Even if I compare more favorably.”
He chuckled and lowered his mouth to her breast. ’Twas her turn to groan as he sucked at one nipple. He teased it over and over, sucking and nipping, alternating until she writhed beneath him and begged him to cease his torment.
“I’ve considered the next way you may please me, wife.”
She regarded him suspiciously.
He toyed with her br**sts, touching the plump swells and then tracing lines around her ni**les.
“You have beautiful br**sts. So very beautiful. I wager they’re the most perfect br**sts I’ve ever seen.”
“Again with the comparisons,” she growled. “ ’Twould seem you’re destined to bring harm to that portion of your anatomy you love so.”
He grinned and then rolled, bringing her atop him. She sprawled rather indelicately across his body, her hair spilling over his chest.
“I am trying to pay homage to your beauty.”
“Perhaps you could just say I am beautiful and that my br**sts are incomparable and that my face is worthy of a bard’s poem. No need to bring other women into it.”
“You are beautiful. Your br**sts are incomparable. Truly, truly incomparable …”
She thumped him on the chest and broke into laughter. “Enough. Now tell me this way you mentioned to please you.”
“ ’Tis a simple enough thing,” he murmured as he curled his fingers around her hips. He lifted and positioned her so that his erection was tucked against her opening. Her eyes went wide as she caught on to his intention. “You simply ease down … here …” he breathed as he slid inside her. “And then you ride me.”
She braced her palms on his shoulders, her entire body rigid as she adjusted to the unfamiliar position.
“Surely such a thing is not done,” she whispered as she stared down into his eyes that were cloudy with pleasure.
“I care not if such a thing is not done. ’Tis done here.”
“Some might consider me a wanton for indulging in such activities,” she said primly.
He groaned and closed his eyes when she clenched down on his cock. “I care not what others think. Only what I think. And what I think is that you astride me is the most desirable thing I’ve ever encountered in my life.”
“Oh very good,” she murmured as she leaned forward. “See? You didn’t ruin it by saying that me astride you was better than the other women you’ve had astride you.”
His body shook with laughter and he wrapped his arms around her to pull her down to his chest. “ ’Tis an easy omission since you’re the only lass to ever have me between her knees thus.”
“Then I must make the experience a memorable one.”
“Aye, indeed. By all means.”
“I mean to have you insensible,” she warned as she took his mouth with hers. She kissed him, tangling her tongue wetly with his.
“Lass, if you make me any more insensible, I’ll be a blithering idiot.”
Mimicking his earlier attentions, she grazed his neck with her teeth and kissed her way up to his ear. He went even more rigid inside her, stretching her until she was unbearably tight around him. Such delicious friction. She moved the tiniest bit and they both let out sighs as she tugged relentlessly at his length.
His arms felt so strong around her. She felt safe. Protected. Cherished even. ’Twas a wondrous sensation. One she didn’t want to end.
Astride her warrior, she didn’t feel small and insignificant. The look in his eyes, the tight coiling of his body told her that he enjoyed her wanton seduction. And in this moment, ’twas all she desired. To please him and make him want her more than he’d ever wanted another woman.
If she had her way, he’d never even consider another female. Forgotten would be the one he used to love, the one who had betrayed him. Rionna would prove to Caelen that she was fierce and loyal and that she’d never waver.
He would love her. It was a vow she made herself.
She would give him every reason to love her. She would fight beside him to make their clan strong, but she’d also be a proper wife, as proper a wife as she knew how to be in the privacy of their chambers. She’d even temper her demeanor outside the bedroom, if ’twas a more submissive wife he wanted.