She snickered. “Damien could come back here at any time.”
Oh, hell no.
I glared down at her. “You’re not sleeping with my little brother.”
“Why not?”
She was teasing me, but I still leaned forward, placed my mouth to her ear, and whispered, “Because after tonight, you’ll be mine. Only ever mine.”
She burst into a fit of giggles, and I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing.
“Be quiet. Everyone is in bed.”
That shut her up.
“Branna and Ryder are home?”
I grinned at her when I saw the worry in her eyes.
“If you run, I’ll chase you and catch you, babydoll.”
Amused, she said, “I’ll smack the shite out of ye’.”
“I’m holding you to that.”
She smiled at me, and my stomach erupted with those stupid butterflies that my brothers talked about getting whenever they looked at their girlfriends.
“Ry and Bran are on the second floor,” I assured her. “I’m up top in Dominic’s old room. They won’t hear us.”
She swallowed. “Just... just don’t say me name.”
Pain sliced across my chest, but I refused to let it show.
“Are you embarrassed?”
I wouldn’t have blamed her if she was. I was disgustingly ugly, and she probably didn’t want people to know she wanted to fuck me.
“No, I just don’t want to be the butt of jokes,” she replied. “Ye’ know everyone will tease us if they knew we … well, ye’ know.”
I opened the door and stepped inside my house. I turned, waiting for her to follow, and released a breath I didn’t know I was holding when she stepped inside. I locked the door behind her and stepped close to her.
She didn’t move a muscle. “Ye’ aren’t goin’ to let me leave, are ye’?”
I slid my hands around her waist. “For now? No.”
“And later?”
I nipped at her neck and nudged her into a walk. “Ask me later.”
She wasn’t moving quick enough for me, so I picked her up again.
“I can walk, ye’ know?”
I squeezed her ass. “Not fast enough.”
I took the stairs two at a time and didn’t stop until I was inside my room with the door locked. I dropped Aideen on my bed, and she gasped at the contact. She lifted her head and watched me as I removed her high heels, dropping them onto the floor with a thud. With my eyes locked on hers, I slid my hands up her legs until I reached her hips. I gripped the hem of her panties and slid them down her legs. I flung them over my shoulder just as Aideen’s eyes widened. She scrambled up onto her knees before me.
“Kane.”
I leaned my head down and kissed her. When she tried to deepen the kiss, I pulled back, and clicked my tongue.
“Arms up first.”
“What—?”
“Arms up first, both of them. You can kiss me when you do that.”
She lifted her arms above my head and froze when I fisted the fabric of her dress and pulled it up her body and over her head. Aideen slowly lowered her arms and blinked. I tossed her dress over my shoulder, reached behind her back, and unclasped her bra. The straps fell down her arms, then before she could blink, the material joined her other clothes on the floor of my bedroom.
“Ye’ know, ye’ could have just asked me to strip, right?”
My eyes feasted over her naked form. I only had the moonlight that shone into my room to see, but as it cascaded over Aideen’s fair skin and supple curves, I felt like the luckiest son of a bitch on the planet. I gripped the back of my T-shirt and pulled it over my head.
“I could have, but what’s the fun in that?”
Aideen’s eyes dropped to my chest, and it was then I remember about the scars. I wasn’t sure how I forgot about them, but I did, and knowing she could see them made my chest hurt. My gut tightened as I stared at her face, waiting for disgust to fill her warm eyes, but it never did. My heart pounded against my chest, and for the first time, I wished that she couldn’t see me because I was embarrassed of my appearance.
“Do you want me to put my tee back on?”
If she said yes, I knew that the pain I felt in my chest would intensify.
“No,” she answered, flicking her eyes up to mine. “Why would I want ye’ to do that? I’m naked, so I want you naked.”
She was being nice to me and didn’t want to hurt my feelings. It made me want her that bit more.
“My body ... It’s ruined, baby doll. It’s not pretty to look at or to feel. I won’t be offended if you want me to stay clothed.”
I wouldn’t be offended, but later, when I was on my own, I’d feel the hurt I felt whenever anyone looked at me like I was a monster.
Aideen locked eyes with mine, and said, “Your body is not ruined; it’s unique.”
I held my breath as she reached out and ran her fingers over a lumpy scar that curved from my neck down the centre of my chest. I kept my eyes on her face, waiting for a hint of repulsion, but all I could see was acceptance, admiration ... and lust.
“You’re the hottest man I’ve ever laid me eyes on.” She smiled, and she leaned into me. “I’ll deny ever sayin’ that in the mornin’.”
I surprised us both when I laughed.
“Are you just saying that so you can get in my pants?”
Aideen grinned. “I could say a lot less and get in your pants, but no, I’m bein’ honest. You’re perfect the way ye’ are. Your scars don’t bother me at all, honey.”
I couldn’t tell if she was lying or not, but I desperately wanted to believe her. She roamed her eyes over my body and bit down on her lower lip. She wanted me,b she couldn’t fake that kind of attraction. I saw it in her eyes that she really wanted me ... scars and all. A sound rumbled up my throat, and Aideen shuddered.
“I love when ye’ make that noise.”
I snaked my hands around to her bare behind and squeezed her flesh.
“I’m going to fuck you so hard you’ll see stars.”
“Yes,” she whispered. “Yes, please.”
“Turn around.”
“Okay,” she answered and turned her back to me.
I placed my hand against her neck and slid it down to the base of her spine.
“Bend over.”
She didn’t move.
“Aideen,” I growled. “Bend. Over.”
Her body trembled as she bent forward and flattened her palms against the soft mattress beneath her. I licked my lips at the arch of her spine and the curve of her rounded ass. I stepped back, and my eyes locked on her pussy. My mouth watered, and my cock jumped.
“I’m going to fuck you right here,” I reached forward and lazily rotated my finger in circles around her entrance.
“And if you can take me here,” I grunted and moved my finger to her asshole, “I’ll fuck you here, too.”
Her body tensed, and a smirked curved my lip. I wasn’t certain, but something told me she had never had her ass fucked before. I itched to be her first.
“Aideen?” I said, sliding my finger inside her hot, wet, tight pussy.
She moaned out loud when I added another finger, and my lips twitched.
“Oh, so you are awake.”
Her body jerked.
“Ye’ thought I fell asleep positioned like this while you’re doin’ that?”
I continued to slowly pump my fingers in and out of her body. “Stranger things have happened.”
Her muscles tightened ever so slightly around my fingers.
“Please.”
I licked my lips. “Please what?”
She groaned. “Please, fuck me already.”
I had to use every ounce of willpower I possessed to remain still.
“I don’t know ... you don’t seem to really want me to fuck you.”
“Kane,” she growled. “I’m very ready for ye’ to fuck me.”
I hummed. “It doesn’t seem like it.”
She pushed back against my hand, taking my fingers deep inside her tight cunt. I smiled and slapped her ass. “That shows your enthusiasm, but not quite enough for me to be bothered enough to take my cock out.”