Page 37 of Loving Graystoke's Heir

In the morning light, her breasts were as rosy red as her cheeks and her eyes sparkled in the sun that slanted in through their windows. With one hand he guided himself between her legs and pressed in, just until her body grasped the swollen head of his erection and cradled him between her folds. The slick heat of her orgasm bathed him and eased his way in deeper without any effort at all.

“Tam?”

She blinked, struggling to focus on his face. “Hmm?”

“I love you.”

He reached for her hands and pressed them to the bed above her head, almost tangling with the ends of her dark hair. As he settled her hands there, holding them together, his body sank deeper into hers.

“Don’t,” she gasped, and shook her head, “don’t hold back. I… I love you, too.” She blinked and her eyes filled up with tears. “I’ve loved you for so long.”

He withdrew to the tip and sank back to the hilt.

“I’ve loved you,” she sighed, “so much.”

Again, he seated himself inside of her.

“Come inside me, Donal. Give me all of you.”

Within him, his beast rose up with a shout. He wanted it as much as Donal did.

Finding their release in her was everything they wanted, the definition of need. They wanted to mark her in any way they could, and spilling his seed in her body was one of the most beautiful ways that it could happen.

“Are you… are you sure?” He was already rocking into her, stroking deeper and deeper into her slick channel.

“Yes, heavens yes, Donal. Please.”

And that was all the permission he needed.

* * *

Hours later he had to hope that Tamsin remembered that she loved him. She certainly seemed ready to throw something at his head. Holding a thermos of coffee in her hand, she seemed ready to aim it at him without much provocation.

“You’re leaving me here?”

Donal ignored Magheli’s smug smile and focused on Tamsin’s wrath. She would always be his biggest concern. “You’ll be safe here with the others.”

“Safe.” She said the word as if it was something she was trying to scrape off of her tongue. “I’m not staying here to be safe.”

“It makes more sense for you to stay here than at our house. I’ll need to hire staff before I’ll feel safe leaving you-”

“Well, that’s just the thing, Donal. You won’t be leaving me. I’m going with you.”

“No, you won’t.” Donal was quickly losing his patience. He didn’t have time to argue with her. They needed to get into their vehicles and go. Soon. “We’re going after poachers. The patrol who went out in our place came across their tracks and a recent kill. Where other groups have all but stopped their crimes in our area, this is the only one that is stepping up their hunts. I don’t want to worry about you in the middle of danger.”

“And where will you be?”

He couldn’t help but admire the fiery flash in her eyes. “I’m sorry, what-”

“Where will you be while the others are facing danger, Donal? You tell me that we’re ma- that we’re supposed to be together. But I don’t know how that’s going to work if you leave me behind to protect me, and yet you’re going to go out there and put yourself in danger.”

He lowered his voice and moved closer, dipping his chin to meet her eyes. “This is not your fight, Tam.”

“I’m about to make it into a fight, Donal.” She leaned over and picked up the rucksack that Thabisa had given her. “Thabisa can’t go with you. She’s still recovering from her injury and you know I’m handy with a rifle. Your father taught me alongside you and with all the time I’ve had on my hands since you left, I’ve spent quite some time at the range. I can at least help be another pair of eyes to watch out for signs of the poachers. And if you go out with fewer people than you’re used to. it’ll just make me worry. Then I’m likely to borrow a car and come after you on my own.”

Magheli tried to hide a laugh and ended up coughing loud enough for Zenzile to give him a good solid thump on his back. “I wouldn’t put it past her.”

Donal turned his frustration on the other man, and for once, the Afrikaner took a good look at him before he backed down. Donal’s smile was forced, but he hoped that the blond man had seen his gorilla bleeding into his eyes.

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