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.He prayed it was the same thing he wanted.She closed the narrow gap between them, pressing so close, the heat of her body singed him.He groaned as if in pain when her pink tongue darted out to moisten her lips.He was so intent upon those lush lips, he had to concentrate to make sense of her words.“I want to be a real wife to you, Graeme.Now.Tonight.”Surely he hadn’t heard right.Why now? Why tonight? “You want me to make love to you? What changed your mind? Did you decide that preserving your powers was not worth denying yourself the pleasure of the marriage bed?”Blair debated revealing her dream to Graeme but feared he would laugh at her.When future happenings were revealed to her in her dreams, she knew they would come true, but Graeme was an unbeliever.Their marriage had to be consummated if she wished to escape Niall’s machinations.“I was wrong to deny you,” Blair said.“You are my husband.”Graeme pushed her away from him, his eyebrows raised in disbelief.“What happened to change your mind? Am I suddenly so attractive to you that you canna resist me?”Consternation darkened Blair’s brow.This wasn’t going the way she’d thought it would.Why was Graeme being so stubborn? A sudden fear drained her face of color.Had her unwillingness to let him bed her killed his desire for her?“Dinna you want me, Graeme?”His harsh exhalation gave her hope.“You think I dinna want you? You know better than that.” He searched her face.“I wonder.Aren’t you afraid you’ll lose your powers? What happened to change your mind after I left your chamber?”“I decided I could never love you,” Blair lied, thinking fast.“My powers will remain intact as long as love isna involved in our marriage.” Refusing to look him in the eye, she added, “I dinna like the idea of another woman in your bed.” That, at least, was the truth.He stared at her so long, Blair began to tremble beneath his intent gaze.What was he thinking? Why was he hesitating?“Tell me the truth, Blair.Why are you here?”Blair sighed.There was no help for it.Graeme wanted the truth, and she would have to tell him if she wanted his cooperation.“I had a dream.”“A dream? Is that what this is all about?”“Dinna scoff, Graeme.My dreams are portents of the future.”He led her to the bed and urged her to sit down.Looming over her, he said, “What part of the dream convinced you to come to my bed?” He took her hand between his; she was trembling and wondered if he could tell.“Niall and the MacKay.”Graeme stiffened.“What about them? We are wed—they can do naught to hurt you now.”“They are coming to Stonehaven.Niall doesna believe we have a legal marriage, and he intends to give me to MacKay if he finds I am still a maiden.”“And of course you are,” Graeme said.“Did your dream tell you how they will prove your state of innocence?”Suddenly he went still, as if the answer had abruptly dawned on him.“Your stepbrother wouldna dare! Think you I would let him put his hands on you?”“If I dreamed it, it will happen.”“So you decided ’twas time to consummate our marriage and came to my chamber to seduce me.”“I dinna like MacKay.He is a greedy man.I know not how or why, but he intends to exploit my powers.”“Am I the lesser of two evils?”“You are my husband.You are the only man with the right to.my body.”“Can you make love with me without engaging your emotions?”“I believe I can.I know now you are a man I canna love so neither my heart nor my powers are in danger.”The corners of Graeme’s mouth lifted.“I dinna believe that dreams can come true, but I am perfectly willing to make love to you.” Gripping her shoulders, he gazed into her eyes, his challenge palpable.“Kiss me, lass.”There were both question and demand in his blue eyes as his gaze searched hers.Blair tried to look away, fearing he would see through her lies, but could not.Risking her powers was indeed the lesser of two evils, but, oh, she had a feeling she was going to enjoy this.Hesitating but a moment, Blair lifted her face and touched her mouth to his.The meeting of their lips was like setting fire to tinder, and Blair shuddered as her body turned to liquid fire.Graeme’s mouth clamped down tight over hers, stealing her breath.His kiss was not gentle.It seemed that all his suppressed passion of the past several days had exploded into that one kiss.The blunt force of his tongue exploring her mouth sent a jolt of desire shooting through her.The stirrings of passion she had felt when Graeme kissed her before were naught compared to the stark need clawing at her now.Mindlessly she pressed closer to him, hunger for more than his kisses blinding her to the Prophecy.Chapter SixBlair was vaguely aware that Graeme was moving her, pivoting her until she was lying on the bed.She gasped when he pushed up the hem of her shift, reluctant to let him remove her last shred of modesty.She stilled his hand.“Must you?”“Aye.You have no idea how I have been burning for you.” He nudged her legs apart with the barest stroke of his thumb.“I need to see all of you, taste all of you.And when I have looked and tasted my fill, I want to feel you melt around me.”His name quivered on her lips when he stripped her of her shift and tossed it aside.She tried to hide herself from him, but he would not allow it.Then her legs suddenly went boneless as his fingers slid between them and into the moist cleft of her womanhood.“Oh.You must not.”“Aye, I must.”He stroked her with an expertise that left her breathless and panting for more.Was this the way it was supposed to be between a man and a woman? Graeme seemed to know exactly what to do, alternating from a slow, rhythmic slide of his finger between the petals of her sex to a frenzied friction that had her clutching at him in frantic torment.She moaned in frustration, unsure what lay beyond the titillation of Graeme’s talented hands and fearing she would never be the same afterward.Then he kissed her, and the world fell away beneath her.Her body arched into his, her senses heightened by the scent of his arousal; she felt herself spinning out of control.When his lips abandoned hers, she wanted to grasp his thick black hair and pull him back, but he took his loving to a higher level, bringing his mouth down to suckle her nipples.She felt her breasts swell as liquid heat rushed through her veins.Nothing in her life had prepared her for this [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]