Highland Savage. Hannah Howell

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СКАЧАТЬ left Annie to seek her own bed, her whole body aching with weariness. She had just reached the opening to her chamber when Lucas stepped into her path. There was a look in his silvery-blue eyes that made her insides clench with need and that angered her. She scowled at him as he neatly pinned her between his hard body and the stone wall.

      Katerina did not need to feel the thick ridge of his shaft pressing against her to know what Lucas wanted. It was there to read in the taut lines of his face. Despite the pain he had caused her she wanted it, too. It was too soon, however. She had not yet decided if the pleasure he could give her was worth all the risks that came with it.

      “I believe ye have a pallet readied for ye in the hall with the other men,” she said, proud of the chill in her voice for there was only searing, welcoming heat in her body.

      “Your bed would be warmer.” Lucas told himself it was the lingering excitement of a battle and a rescue that had stirred such need in him, and that he had only sought out Katerina to ease it because she was close at hand. He ruthlessly ignored the voice in his head that called him a liar.

      “There are plenty of blankets about. Seek their warmth.”

      “Are ye sure that is what ye want me to do?”

      Before she could reply, he kissed her. It was no gentle kiss, no soft coaxing of a lover. Lucas ravished her mouth. His kiss stirred her hunger into a fierce craving. Katerina clutched at his robe, fighting the urge to rip the coarse wool from his body and crawl all over him. Her need was a living thing inside her, but she fought it with all her strength. The moment his lips left hers, she grasped the shredded tethers of her control and pushed him back. Her whole body felt chilled by the loss of his heat, but she ignored it. It was too soon. She had no control over her emotions, and if she did decide to take him as her lover, she knew she would need some if only to shield her heart from the pain he could inflict on it.

      “Kissing a woman ye think guilty of attempting to murder ye isnae wise. Doing it whilst dressed as a monk might be considered blasphemy. I suggest ye leave. Now.”

      Katerina did not flinch from his hard, searching stare. If he had been looking for a weakness in her, he had undoubtedly found at least a hint of one in the way she had responded to his kiss. It did not matter. She was in control now and she intended to hold fast to it. There was a glint of anger in his eyes and she was pleased to se it. If she was going to suffer the unquenched fires of desire tonight, he ought to suffer in some way as well.

      Lucas could see the strength of her resolve to send him away and knew he would not get what he craved tonight. Her desire for him was still there, however. He had tasted it in the kiss they had shared. He could wait, no matter how uncomfortable waiting was going to be. Bowing slightly, he left her and began to try to recall all the ways he could ease the hunger in his body so that he could get some much-needed rest. He would need his strength for the campaign ahead. Coaxing Katerina back into his arms so that they could wallow in the passion they shared, at least for a while, would take every scrap of patience and guile he could muster. He could wait, but he had no intention of waiting for too long.

      The moment Lucas was gone, Katerina staggered to her bed and collapsed onto it, her whole body trembling as she fought to control the desire that kiss had brought to life. She was glad Lucas had not argued with her, for her control was tenuous at best. A little push from him and she might well have fallen straight into his arms. Something in the way he had looked at her, even in the way he had bowed, told her that he would push. She would have to make her decision about him soon, for every instinct she had told her that Lucas was now on the hunt and she was his prey.

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