Page 67 of Hold Fast

Una pulled at his leine shirt, needing to feel his skin, and he obliged her by removing it. He pressed a hot palm into the middle of her chest, coaxing her down onto her back. He shifted his big body, kissing around her breasts again before dragging his lips down her belly, toward her intimate center.

“Ewan?” she asked breathily, pushing up onto her elbows.

“Aye?”

“I… I have nae experience with that,” she said, blushing feverishly.

He smiled. “But are you opposed? Is it a nay?”

She shook her head slowly. “You dinnae have to though, Ewan. I ken—”

“Shhh. I want to make you ready, mo cridhe,”he whispered against her hip bone.

“But I am ready now,” she protested, trying in vain to pull him up, to bring his face back to hers. She wanted to kiss him. She wanted to hear him say her name against her lips. She wanted tofeelhim say it.

He smiled, looking up the length of her torso, and said, “Then you’ll be doubly so when I’m through with you,” before lowering his mouth, his tongue licking a hot stripe against her seam. “Besides, I didnae have any dessert downstairs. Surely you wouldnae deprive me of it now.”

CHAPTER27

If Una had thought it felt good to hear him speak her name against her mouth, she was made nearly delirious by the feeling of him speaking against her slick, aching core. She fell back against the mattress with a squeak. He gently parted her folds with his thumbs and licked from her opening to her pearl, flicking gently over the aching bundle of nerves. Una moaned, squeezing her eyes shut. He moved away from that most sensitive spot, thrusting his tongue inside of her before coming back to lick at the apex of her sex. He took his time with his explorations until Una was writhing, arching off the bed.

When she was gasping and unable to lie still, he focused his tongue on her pearl, gently circling and flicking. She gripped his hair in her fingers to keep him from moving away again. He chuckled, and she felt the vibrations of that laugh against her sex. The climax rose steadily within her, so close and yet just out of reach at the same time.

Ewan reached up with one hand to lazily play with her breast as his tongue flickered deliberately where she needed it most. With his other hand, he inserted two fingers in slow shallow glides, crooking them towards his mouth and beckoning from deep within. Una shattered like glass, her release sharp and shocking. Her mouth opened wide on a soundless scream as the orgasm rocked her body. Her toes curled and her thighs clamped tight around his ears. He wrapped an arm around her thighs and followed her as she bucked her way through it.

She was left panting and feeling as if she was floating, as if her body hovered above the sheets instead of resting tangled among them. Ewan crawled up the bed and lay beside her, his head resting on his hand as he watched her collect herself. Una turned her head to look at him.

“See?” he said, an eyebrow quirked high with a smug look on his face. “Doubly ready. Aye?”

She was boneless, brainless, and in that moment, it was all she could do to close the distance between them and press her mouth to his, tasting herself on his tongue. He rolled onto his back, taking her with him so that she straddled his hips.

“What are you doing?” she asked, her lips moving over his face.

“I want you to take me, Una,” he said between kisses.

“Isnae that your job, m’laird?” she teased, nipping at his plush bottom lip.

“Next time. But I want you to do the taking.”

She pulled back to study him. He ran a big hand through her hair, the beautiful braids Joan had plaited for her no doubt destroyed by now. He had such a soft, earnest look on his face. He wanted her to be in control. Of her body. Of this first time. Of every time if she wished it, she had no doubt.

He cupped her cheek. “And if you dinnae want this tonight, I will wait until you are ready. I willnae make demands of your body, Una. It isnae mine to command.”

Una blinked back tears. His belly was hot beneath her, and she felt the gentle swell of his abdomen against her slick center with every deep breath he took.

“If you want to stop, we’ll stop. Now or at any point. I swear it. I willnae lose myself. I willnae make you—”

“Shhh,” she said, pressing a finger against his lips. He kissed the pad of her fingertip. “I want you, Ewan.”

With a nod, Ewan reached between them. She rose up higher, watching as he lined up the blunt tip of his cock with her opening. But he went no further, holding her gaze and waiting. She slid down a small measure, and her body encompassed the broad head. Ewan groaned low in his chest. He moved his hands to her hips as she sank lower, inch by inch, not daring to breathe until he was fully sheathed within her.

Una felt incomparably full. It took her breath away. Ewan seemed similarly at a loss, panting, his eyes squeezed shut.

“God’s bones, Una. You nearly undid me with one stroke,” he said through gritted teeth.

She bent to kiss him, and he met her mouth eagerly. His strong shoulders flexed under her hands.

“Are you well?”