Heir to the Sea by Danelle Harmon

Author:Danelle Harmon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-09-06T18:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Kieran felt the exact moment she melted against him.

He felt the sweet lushness of her mouth, heard the breathy little noises she made as she sank further into the kiss, felt her fingers in his hair, her hand cupping the back of his head, the tantalizing press of her full, generous breasts against his ribs. She tasted like candy and felt like heaven. He wanted to devour her, to lay her down on the deck, to kiss and nibble and lick every inch of her soft, sweet skin and touch her in places he could only imagine.

But he did not.

She was a fine young woman, and she deserved better than to be taken like a common strumpet.

And so, reluctantly, Kieran put his hands on her shoulders and broke the kiss, gently coaxing her up against him and holding her close. He rested his chin against the crown of her head, trying to control his breathing, hearing his heart thundering in his ears and hoping she didn’t notice the hard swelling that his trousers, stretched agonizingly tight across it, fought to contain.

“Rosalie,” he began, his voice sounding hoarse to his own ears.

She took a deep, shuddering breath and lifting a hand, placed it against his galloping heart. “Kieran.”

He did not know what to say. It was a moment that demanded he say nothing at all, and he was afraid to ruin it by uttering something that might come out sounding foolish, trite, or trivial in light of the colossal importance of what they’d just shared. But she was waiting for him to say something. Anything. He could sense it. Oh, why was he so tongue-tied around her, so—what was the word she’d used?—shy?

“I may not have remembered much about that first kiss, but that one…that one, I will never forget.” He gazed down at her, his heart in his eyes, feeling like everything inside of him was either going to explode or shatter despite the evenness of his words. Emotion surged through him, sudden and unexpected. Why did it feel as if something indescribably huge and life-changing had just happened to him?

It was only a kiss.

But it hadn’t been. It had been so, so much more.

She pulled away to look up at him, her freckled face earnest and hopeful in the darkness. Tenderly, he reached out and touched her cheek, finding it petal-soft beneath his fingers. He passed his thumb over it, once. Twice. She closed her eyes and leaned the side of her face into his hand.

“So where do we go from here?” she murmured.

He smiled. “I guess I’ll be visiting Baltimore for a while.”

“Oh, Kieran, I would love that. You said yourself you’re in no hurry to get home so why not stay with us, sleep in a soft bed, eat some good food, relax for a bit? You need to rebuild your crew, don’t you? Why not recruit some men in Baltimore? In the meantime, my family would enjoy meeting you, and I know they’d wish to thank you in person for delivering Stephen and me safely home.

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