Highland Knight by Cindy Miles

Author:Cindy Miles [Miles, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2011-11-23T21:05:24+00:00

Chapter 16

"Um," Amelia said, her voice cracking just a wee bit. "I, uh, can’t hear anything with your mouth on my neck.’’

Ethan smiled. Damn, he did a lot of that lately. How could he help it? Amelia Landry was by far the most charming lass he’d ever known.

No’ to mention the most beguiling. He used full restraint, just to keep from pawing her like some starved creature.

Mayhap, he was one.

Ethan scraped his chin against the verra soft skin of Amelia’s neck, and then pulled back, just a bit, else he’d no’ be able to control himself.

That kiss earlier had seared him to the very bone.

It’d left him wanting more. He knew, though, he couldna have more. Mayhap more kisses, aye. He’d beg for those if he had to. But nothing else. Amelia deserved more than that. Better than him. Her company, and access to her lovely mouth would have to be enough for now.

‘‘Keep quiet and listen, girl,’’ he said. ‘‘Closely.’’

‘‘Okay.’’

She did, and the only noise besides their breathing were the pine martins and insects, and if she strained her ears—

‘‘Oh!’’ she said in a loud whisper. ‘‘I hear it! Only . . . what do I hear?’’

Ethan chuckled, wrapped his arms around her waist, and pulled her against him. The feel of her warm body, the slight shudder of her breath, the roar of her voice vibrating through her back and to his chest made him want to tighten his hold on her and never let her go. Keep her there forever.

Impossible, he knew, and instead settled for having her here now, in the gloaming, snuggled easily, and he brushed his mouth once more against the soft shell of her ear. He felt her shiver, and he knew he’d treasure the sensation for the rest of his days. ‘‘ ’Tis fairies singing.’’

Amelia sat still—a miraculous event in itself, he thought—and tilted her head toward the sound. Then she turned to him, that cocksure grin that he found completely endearing, with one corner of her mouth lifting higher than the other, crossing her face. Had they no’ been so close, he’d have never seen it, so cast in shadows were the wood.

‘‘You’re full of it, Munro. There’s no such thing as fairies.’’

He kissed her jaw, and she squirmed. ‘‘You’re being savored by an enchanted fouteenth-century man and you say there are no fairies, aye?’’

She made some sort of sighing noise, and Ethan smiled. ‘‘Come, lass, I’ll show you.’’

They walked through the thicket, up a slight rocky incline, where the sound of water grew louder. The wood cleared, allowing a bit of light within, and Amelia gasped.

‘‘Oh, wow.’’ She stared a moment, then turned back to him. ‘‘How beautiful.’’

Pride leaped up from within at Amelia’s pleasure of his home. ‘‘ ’Tis a bhùirn.’’ He glanced at her. ‘‘Fresh water, moving fast.’’

‘‘Burn,’’ she said, repeating the Gaelic word. He rather liked the way his language sounded on her tongue. ‘‘What is that sound? You know, it actually does sound like high-pitched singing.’’

Moving

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