The Highlander's Charm: a Stolen Brides novella (The Stolen Bride Series Book 9) by Eliza Knight

Author:Eliza Knight [Knight, Eliza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knight Media, LLC
Published: 2015-08-06T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

THE following morning Samuel begrudgingly woke with a screaming headache—most likely from the lack of sleep. He’d tossed and turned in the rank room off the side of the croft—one time earning a kick from some animal, he wasn’t quite sure which. But oddly, right now, he felt warm, and… aroused. The lack of windows made the room dark, but judging from the curvy female form beneath his arm and thigh, he had company. His cock was hard and pulsing as it pressed against rounded buttocks.

Ballocks! He stiffened, suddenly very concerned. Who was it? The mistress of the house would be bad, but even worse was Catriona.

He tried to tug his arm gently from beneath the head full of soft locks and failed miserably, hearing the thud as her skull hit the ground.

“Ouch!” ’Twas Catriona. She shifted beside him, sitting up.

Satan’s curse!

He must have slept harder than he thought to have not felt her slide under his blanket and mold her delectable body to his. He was fully awake now and light from the main room shifted into this darker one. Catriona swiped her hand through her hair and stared up at him accusingly.

“What the hell are you doing in here?” he asked, leaping to his feet and checking to make sure he was wearing his clothes. Fully dressed, thank the saints.

Though, his body was reacting before his brain could tame it, growing harder still. The power of his desire for her was somewhat startling. He turned his back, lighting a candle he’d found the night before and pretending to prepare the horses so she wouldn’t see the ever increasing bulge.

“I—” But she didn’t say anything else, just huffed a breath.

Rustling sounded from behind, and then she was walking past him with another horse blanket and saddle.

She glanced up at him with sheepish eyes, crimson coloring her cheeks.

“What is it?” he asked, peering through the open door to the main room. But all he could think about was the way she’d felt in his arms, soft, silky, warm, curves in all the right places.

Catriona let out a harsh breath. “The giant and his wife… They were…” Her cheeks colored even more.

A few more minutes of him being half asleep and he might have done the same thing to her.

Samuel restrained himself from laughing, but a brief bursting chuckle left his mouth. “So you thought it best to cuddle up with me?” he teased, also relieved that he had woken up in time before his unconscious mind had taken the action his cock had desired.

Her mouth fell open, obviously reading more into what he’d said than he intended. Or had he intended it? Watching the emotions cross over her face was very entertaining, especially after the tease she’d given him upon waking.

“Certainly not. I only preferred not to hear the two of them carrying on beneath their blanket.”

Samuel grinned and winked. “I don’t blame you. Been plenty of times I’ve been in that same situation. Nearly was this morning.”

Her mouth fell open.

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