He sobered, some of his reasoning abilityreturning. "I never thought you were."
"Then why are you treating me thus?" shedemanded.
"The way you were looking at me, lass… Youwere devouring me with your eyes, as if you want to crawl into mybed."
Chapter Seven
Camille glared at Dugald for a long moment.The beast!Sacrebleu, but he was arousing. The most temptingman she had ever encountered. And the most maddening!
"Do you?" Dugald asked, his deep voiceseducing her utterly. His darkened eyes dared her to indulge withhim, to sample something wicked.
"What?" So distracted was she that she'dforgotten what they were discussing.
His sensual lips quirked. "Want to crawl intomy bed?" He watched her as a giant, green-eyed cat watches a finchbefore it pounces.
She could scarce breathe. Or think. Shelicked her lips and his gaze focused on her actions, his lasheslowering.Mèrede Dieu, she wanted to climb his tall,broad-shouldered frame and nibble on him.
"Peut-être," she murmured, unable tolie outright.
"I'll take that as anaye." Movingswiftly, he lifted her again and deposited her in the middle of hishuge rumpled bed.
She gasped at his sudden action, a thrillcoursing through her. She was daft to want to be in his bed but…she could not find the will to scramble away from him. She lovedthe way he towered over her and how small she felt beneath him.
"I don't remember much from my Frenchlessons," he said, "but I do remember that word.Perhaps.Aye?" He drew her earlobe into his hot, wet mouth.
Delightful shivers coursed down her neck andover her breasts. "Ahh.Oui," she breathed, arching herneck. He trailed his lips down the sensitive skin of her throat,leaving wee kisses along the way and a playful bite. She clenchedher fingers into his silky dark hair. Oh, good heavens! He sentlightning dancing over her skin.
He pulled at the front lacings of her bodice,untying the bow at her breasts. "I want to unwrap you like a lovelyFrench gift."
"Oui. Take them off." She struggledwith the buttons on his doublet, wanting to run her hands over allhis hard muscles.
He sat on his knees and focused on his taskin earnest. Within seconds, he had bared her breasts and drew oneof her hard and sensitive nipples into his mouth. The sudden surgeof pleasure astonished her.
She gasped, arching toward him.
"Damnation, lass! You have the mostbeautiful, lush breasts."
"Take your clothes off," she said.
Still suckling her nipples, he tore at thebuttons of his doublet. She unbuckled his belt and shoved his plaidaside. Rising up, he yanked the shirt and doublet over his headand, finally, he was gloriously bare. Such a beautiful male, shecould not draw breath. The muscles of his chest and abdomenappeared carved of burnished marble. She had only seen a briefglimpse of him outside the tent. But now, to have him fully nakedand so close to her was near overwhelming. Thankfully, he finisheddragging the clothing from her body.
Claiming her mouth again in a consuming kiss,he pressed his body, so hot and hard, along hers. Tangling herhands in his long dark hair, she drew him closer.Sacrebleu,she had never craved a man so badly! She threw her leg over his andhooked her heel behind his knee.
Grinning, he growled and rolled between herthighs. Slowly, he pushed her legs upward and positioned himself."Are you ready?" His devilish tone promising unimaginable pleasure,he stroked that most aroused and intimate spot where she ached forhim. A daring, wicked look glinted in his eyes. He hissed a breathbetween his teeth. "You feel ready."
Need for him consuming her, she nodded."Oui."
With one forceful thrust, he lodged himselfwithin her and growled against her ear.
She cried out, digging her nails into hisback. She had never felt such intensity—pleasure, passion and a bitof pain. Though she was no virgin, it had been more than two yearssince she'd taken a lover. She was unused to such an invasion. Andhe was a large, virile man.
"I'm sorry," he whispered, breathing hard andholding himself still within her. "I forgot to ask if you're avirgin."
She shook her head. "Non…but…"
"Thank the saints."
"In truth?"
