Beneath Black Sails by Clare Sager

Author:Clare Sager
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2020-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

THE CAVE

P ulse far too loud in her ears, Vice swallowed. This was … he was a pirate hunter and she a pirate … but after all that had happened today, the argument fell flat.

He was her betrothed, though – or had been. That could complicate things.

Lords and Ladies, did it matter? He didn’t know who she was, and she didn’t care who he was. He could just be a body fulfilling her body’s need, and she could be the same for him. Gods knew he needed to let off steam after today’s fight.

Besides, cool, restrained Knighton Blackwood wasn’t some foolish boy to lose his heart after a kiss … or more.

She lifted her chin, an invitation. His breath brushed her lips.

“Then,” she said, “why don’t you?” All he had to do was lower his face a few inches.

“Because,” he replied, voice husky, “if I start, I don’t know where it’ll stop.”

So he felt it too. The tension that had been building since that first time they’d met, humming like one of Perry’s high notes on her fiddle. When it broke, it wouldn’t just be a brief kiss in a cave. Her body throbbed, calling for it, for him. Irresistible.

“Maybe you should start and find out.”

Two beats, a slow blink, then his fingers plunged into her hair, and he pressed his mouth to hers.

Warmth surged through her at his touch, highlighting every sensation. The cave’s chilly air on her hands and face. The solidity of his shoulder under her hand. The rough linen of her shirt still gripped in the other. His hand at her waist, fingertips of the other trailing across her scalp.

All that from a lingering union of lips.

They parted an inch, and when she opened her eyes, their gazes collided, as staggering as a pistol shot. She blew out a shaky laugh. A shiver raced through him, lifting goosebumps on his forearms.

Just one kiss. Definitely not enough.

In unison, she tiptoed back to his lips, and his arm circled her waist, crushing her against him.

Lords, he was firm and strong, and his pulse pounded under her fingertips as her hands slid over his shoulders and around his neck.

That pulse – he was alive, she was alive. They’d survived. And this was the reward they’d earned.

With bodies flush together, the heat coursing through her built, pushing her mouth open and inviting his eager response, tongue brushing hers.

At that touch, a boundary crossed, the kiss grew raw, hungry, frantic, his skin burning under her hands, their breaths mingling and echoing through the cave.

This was what she needed. Gods, this was exactly what she needed. She threaded her fingers into his hair, pulling him closer, deeper, and a groan rumbled in his chest – the louder cousin of the sound she’d felt when she’d checked him for weapons.

Maybe this was what he needed, too.

His hands sank to her backside, kneading, pressing, and with a surge of muscles, he lifted her from the floor, bringing their faces level.

She huffed a soft laugh – damn it, she didn’t need encouragement, not in this.

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