Winter Heat by Dawn Halliday

Author:Dawn Halliday [Halliday, Dawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Goodreads: 18461779
Publisher: InterMix
Published: 2013-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Ages later—or maybe only a few minutes had passed—Logan pulled out of her and slumped beside her. Shame consumed him. Not only had he lost all control and taken her like a heathen, he’d come inside her, risking his seed taking root in her belly. He’d never done that with a woman before. He’d never been so thoughtless.

He ground his teeth and stared up at the rafters. “I’m sorry.”

She shifted in the bed, turning to face him. “Why?”

He dragged his gaze to focus on her. There was no reason to beat about the bush. They both knew what he’d done. “I hurt you. I spilled my seed inside you.”

She went very still, a frown frozen on her face. She was silent for a long moment. Finally she said, in a lethally quiet voice, “I really want to hit you right now, Logan Douglas.”

He stared at her in shock, and then he understood. “Of course you do.”

He forced his languid muscles to rise to a seated position at the edge of the bed. He found his shirt on the floor and picked it up. “If there is a child . . .” He sucked in a breath. “I will do whatever you wish, Maggie.” Angrily, he brushed the back of his hand over his brow. “Forgive me.”

“Stop it!” Rising onto her knees behind him, she slid her arms around him, and it was his turn to freeze. “You silly, foolish man. Stop apologizing.”

She slid around his torso to settle on his lap, wrapping her legs around him, and he couldn’t avert the surge of arousal her touch elicited. She framed his face in her hands and pulled it down to hers. She kissed him on the lips. “That was exactly what I wanted. What I needed.”

“I hurt you,” he said stubbornly.

She kissed his nose. “No, Logan.” She brushed her lips over his eyebrows. “No. You gave me pleasure.” She pressed her mouth against his forehead. “So much pleasure.”

“I came inside you,” he said, unable to keep the self-condemnation from his voice.

She touched her forehead to his. “I know,” she whispered. “I’m sorry for that.”

“It’s my fault.”

“No, it’s mine. I pushed you. If I am with child, it is my own doing. It’s not your fault.”

“I will stay with you until we know.”

“That’s not necessary. I know you are in a hurry to get home. If there is a child, I can care for it. My clan will help. No one would turn me or the babe away.”

“Nevertheless, I will remain until we know. And if there is a child, I will take you north with me.”

She pressed her lips to his jaw. “Let’s not think about it anymore. There’s no point agonizing over a remote possibility.”

He pushed his fingers against his temples. Her words hit him like slaps in the chest. Of course she didn’t want to discuss leaving her clan to come home with him. The truth shouldn’t surprise him. She was a MacDonald, and these mountains were her home, not the flat wildlands of the northernmost part of Scotland.

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