Dusk stained the sky deep indigo by the time they stumbled up to Kieran’s cottage, laughing and kissing and fumbling at each other’s clothing.
When Kieran kicked the door open, Addy’s heart skittered. And when he swept her into his powerful arms, pressed her against the wall, and plundered her mouth, she forgot how to breathe.
Unconcerned with the humans’ gyrations, Snoot snuffled his way into the cottage, nose to the ground, tail wagging. From the corner of her eye, Addy saw him hop onto a loveseat by the fireplace and nestle into the cushions.
“Snoot, down,” she commanded. “You’re a sandy mess.” But the dog only stared, his brow contracted in a canine plea.
“Let him be,” Kieran murmured into her hair. “I’ll clean up later. Besides, the sofa’s too small for what I want to do with you.”
“Yikes!” she squealed when he tunneled his icy hands inside her jeans and gave her ass a squeeze. “Are you trying to stop my heart?”
“Quite the opposite, beauty.” But he obligingly removed his chilly digits and strode across the living room to light the fireplace. As soon as flames licked the logs, he turned to her, desire smoldering in his gaze. “Music, love?” He glanced at Snoot, sprawled and basking in the fire’s warmth. “It might distract our friend here from any noises we make.”
Closing the distance between them, he settled his hands on her hips, and murmured into her ear, “Be warned, beauty. I plan to make some noise with you tonight.”
“Music would be great,” she whispered, leaning into his hold. What kind of music did a hunky Irish lighthouse keeper listen to? Celtic flutes? Irish fiddles?
Kieran tapped his phone, and bluesy piano notes filled the room as Annie Lennox crooned, “I put a spell on you…”
Addy gave a throaty laugh and wound her arms around his neck. “Not what I would have guessed.”
He slid his broad hand between her shoulder blades and swayed her to the lazy, sensual beat. “I like the way we surprise each other.”
“Amen.” She raised her lips for another kiss.
Dancing her backwards, Kieran licked into her mouth, his tongue a velvety marvel that flooded her core with heat. Heavens above, this man! Instinctively, he knew exactly how to tease her higher, hotter, loosening her body until she flowed like honey in his arms.
Their slow tango ended when Addy’s back met the cool, smooth wood of his bedroom door.
“Addy,” he breathed, his forehead pressed to hers. “Do you know how I’ve dreamed and wished and prayed you’d end up here in my bed?”
He grasped her thigh and pulled it to his waist, angling his hips so the hard ridge of his erection scraped the seam of her jeans. Pleasure ricocheted through her, sizzling along her nerves.
And then her feet left the floor. Clutching her ass, he leaned into her, all firm muscle and hot skin and deep, rumbling moans. Hands clasped behind his neck, she held on tight as he rocked his hips in rhythm with his plundering tongue.
“Kieran,” she gasped, “if you don’t stop soon, I’m going to come right here.”
He chuckled into her mouth. “Would that be a bad thing, beauty?”
“But I want to feel you.” She tore at his flannel shirt. “All of you.”
With a sexy grunt, he released her, groaning when she slid down his front. He opened the door, but before she could get a proper look at his bedroom, he scooped her up and carried her to his bed, an old-fashioned four-poster affair sturdy enough for the roughest play.
A shiver ran through her as he gently set her down and tugged off her shoes and socks.
“Crap, sorry,” she said as sand pattered onto the wooden floor.
“We were both distracted. I’ll sweep up later.” A wolfish grin lit his face as he made quick work of the rest of her clothes until she lay spread out naked on his soft patchwork quilt, her skin prickling with goosebumps. His glittering eyes drank in her body as he swiftly shed his own clothing and stood before her, his stance wide, his fat, ruddy cock jutting upward.
She reached for him, but he pushed her onto the mattress, then knelt between her splayed thighs to grip her knees and spread them wider. “Look at you,” he gritted out. “You’re magnificent.”
He dove in, sealing his mouth to her sex in a deep, suckling kiss. Addy squirmed away from sensations almost too sharp to bear, but he pursued her relentlessly, the two of them thrashing across the mattress until her head collided with the carved headboard.
Kieran rose on his knees, captured her wrists in a firm grip, and crouched above her, his eyes blazing. “Stay right here.”
His commanding tone stoked her arousal even higher. This man was full of delicious surprises. Come what may, she had to find a way to hold on to this dizzying ride until its inevitable end.
“Be here now,” she muttered under her breath. This was not the time to think about endings, not with her body thrumming with need and Kieran returning from his antique wardrobe clutching a fistful of…
