The Avenger of Castle Wick by Rebecca Ruger

Author:Rebecca Ruger [Ruger, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rebecca Ruger
Published: 2024-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

THE ICY WATER DID LITTLE to cool his ardor.

In truth, ˈtwas neither sudden nor unexpected, had only been mostly denied in favor of greater concerns: escaping the English, getting free of those shackles. He dove deep into the lochán, touching the muck of the bottom with his hand before springing again to the surface, wondering if he might actually regret losing the bond of those shackles, for how it had kept her tied to him.

It was only a few days that he’d known her, but he felt as if she’d been woven into the fabric of his existence. Their joint adversity, having suffered and survived it together, was likely to blame. His physical desire for her had been instant and overwhelming, but this...connection he felt to her, as if the natural culmination of his desire for her would and must reach its ultimate conclusion, was born of the ordeal withstood together, uniting them more deeply in some way, he decided.

And, of course, there was that kiss, he happily recalled.

They would part eventually, their armies going their separate ways, and the bond would become frayed and then be broken completely.

But for now....

Austin ducked his head under water once more, vigorously scrubbing his fingers through his hair. He rose again and sluiced water from his face, just in time to see Fiona slowly wading toward the reeds. The sight of the braies clinging to her willowy figure raised a brow at the same time it ignited a fire in his loins. Strange, that he’d not given any thought to what she wore beneath her breeches. And provoking, how the sodden linen hugged her arse, cleaving to each individual globe and the cleft between, revealing the exact shape of her bottom. He imagined his hands on her arse, lifting and kneading each gently rounded cheek as he plunged deep inside her.

As if she felt, deep in her soul, his thoughts, she whipped her head around and glared at him.

Of course she could not know exactly what he’d been thinking, but she did catch him, still and silent, ogling her, and thus the glare was not unwarranted. But she moved on, almost completely out of view as she gained the privacy of the thick stand of bulrushes.

Austin shoved off from his feet, floating on his back with his arms stretched wide. He closed his eyes and brought to mind the image of another time he’d seen her bathing. One more bath, he mused, and he might have a complete picture of her, front, back, top, and bottom.

He compared the memory of her reaction then to now, recalling her haughty, fearless mien on that first occasion as opposed to this now. The glare she’d shown him a moment ago had been forced, had it not? Compelled by some sense of self-preservation? Had he not glimpsed moments of an equal awareness? Of womanly intrigue?

Despite their natural enmity, born of a feud decades in the making and honed by his initial reception of her as a soldier,

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