Ailis angled her hips to allow him in deeper and he went there, filling her. With powerful thrusts, he moved in and out, over and over, until her woman’s flesh tightened around his cock and he felt his seed spilling. He held her so closely, barely breathing, while feeling her reaching her own satisfaction.
With a care, he eased them down to the blanket and to their sides. He kept her close, remaining within her until they dozed.
Together.
Lachlan heard her whispering and leaned closer to hear her words.
“I canna believe I didna ken it was ye,” she said, turning her head to him. He kissed her gently and smiled. “I should have recognized yer touch. Yer mouth. Yer body on mine.”
They’d discussed it many times and understood that Ailis never saw him because she never expected a dead man to rise.
“I canna believe I found my way back to ye,” he admitted. Dark months had tried his resolve to survive and only the visions of her guided him through the struggles and pain.
“But ye did,” she said, staring at his mouth.
“Aye, I did.”
As he kissed her, the randy fellow still within her roused.
“All the days of our lives,” she promised, pressing her hips back against him, accepting him, allowing him … loving him.
Lachlan slid his hand around her body, cupping her belly and the promise she carried there. This time, their joining was slow and quiet, as though they had accepted the truth of their lives, for there was no need to rush any longer.
They would have all the days of their lives together.
About Terri Brisbin –
RITA®-nominated, award-winning and USA Today best-selling author Terri Brisbin is a mom, a wife, grandmom(!) and a dental hygienist and has sold more than 2.5 million copies of her historical and paranormal romance novels and novellas in more than 25 countries and 20 languages. Her current and upcoming historical and other romances will be published by Harlequin Historicals, St. Martin’s Press/Swerve and independently, too.
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Brandywine Brides – A Blackwood Legacy Anthology
Upon A Misty Skye - from Once Upon a Haunted Castle
Across A Windswept Isle – from The Forbidden Highlands
Kidnapping the Laird
Romantic Heroes – includes The Queen’s Man
MacKendimen Clan series
Lords of the Highlands includes A Love Through Time – Book 1
Once Forbidden – Book 2
Christmas in Kilts – includes A Highlander’s Hope – Book 2A
A Matter of Time – Book 3
A Highland Feuding series
Stolen by the Highlander – Book 1
The Highlander’s Runaway Bride – Book 2
Kidnapped by the Highland Rogue – Book 3
Claiming His Highland Bride – Book 4
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