Freeing a Tiger's Soul (Tiger Series) (6 page)

He never took his mouth from her skin as he allowed the head of his shaft to caress her tender folds.  He moved from her neck to her plump breasts and he wanted to devour her. 

Her little pink nipples were a
s hard as pebbles and he felt his body tingle when he took one stiff peak into the heated depths of his mouth.  He gently pinched the other and was rewarded by the scent of her deepening desire.  She was on fire for him and he hungered for the taste of her sweet cream. 

His hand roamed from her breast and down her gently rounded belly until he found her nest of silver curls.  Her thighs quivered around his hips as his fingers began to explore her soft pink folds
anew
.  He suddenly wanted to see her.  He sat back on his heels and held her legs open when she went to close them.

“Let me see ye Krisione.  Let me see the woman you are for me alone.”

He met her eyes and did not move until she nodded slowly.  His heated gaze traveled over her body until it landed on the apex of her thighs.

Krisi was drowning in desire.  Her only salvation was Euan and what he was doing to her.  She gasped when she felt his wide finger slip through her curls and across the engorged bundle of nerves.  He smiled faintly and continued his explorations. 

Euan wanted to latch on to Krisi’s ripe little bud when she gasped and bucked into his hand, but he refrained.  He knew this was all new to her and he knew that he had to prepare her carefully so he would not hurt her.  He grasped both thighs and used his thumbs to open her soft pink flower.

“Aye Lass.  Open for me and let me see yer beauty.”  He looked up and smiled.

“Do ye ken how beautiful ye are here Krisi?”  He said as he ran one finger along her folds
and gathered her thick cream on his finger
.

She gasped again and shook her head vigorously.

“Aye ye are and I’d bet ye taste sweeter than honey too.  Will ye let me have a taste of yer honey Krisi?”

He waited tense until she opened her mouth.

“Yes!  Anything you want.  I am yours.”

Euan felt a rush of power and lowered his head.  He lapped at the exquisite cream that coated her glistening lips and wanted to groan as the rich flavor burst on his tongue.  He plunged his tongue deep inside her needing more of her taste to sustain him.  She writhed beneath him and he knew she was close.  He pulled his tongue from her snug passage and made circles around her swollen nub with the stiff tip of his tongue.   Then he captured it with his lips and suckled hard.

Krisi screamed and
bucked as Euan suckled her feminine core.  She wanted to tell him to stop, that it was too much, but she had no words.  The world exploded in a blinding flash of color and she was floating.

She felt Euan shift above her and she felt the tip of his massive shaft begin to probe her tender opening.  She didn’t have the strength to cry out when she felt the proof of her innocence being torn away.  All she could do was lie under this powerful man and accept him into her most protected core.  She felt her desire rekindling as Euan began to move within her.  She opened her eyes to find him watching her with the flames of desire flickering in his dark gaze.

“Are ye well love?”  He growled.

“Yes!”  Krisi gasped and it was all Euan needed.

Her words empowered Euan and he quickened his pace.  Before he knew it he was pounding into his fragile little mate with more force than he thought prudent.  He slowed and she moaned in protest.

“I should nay b
e so rough with ye lass.  Let me slow down and love ye easy.”

“No!  Love me as you were.  Please Euan.  I am so close.”

Euan’s control snapped and he growled deep in his chest as he began to pound into her again.  Her breathy little moans only fed the flames of his desire.  When her inner muscles clamped down on him, milking him, he roared in triumph as he poured his seed into her womb.

It seemed to take forever for Euan to empty himself into Krisi.  He had fifteen years of pent up desire and he thought he had spent it all in one release.  He groaned and collapsed on her as he tried to regain his breath.

Krisi welcomed the weight of her mate and wrapped herself around him.  He had given her the most exquisite experience of her life and she wanted to savor it a while longer.

“Lass.  I must be crushing ye.”  He said in a low voice.

“No.  I like the feel of you.”

She felt his smile against her throat.

“’Tis a fortunate thing, for ye’ll be feeling it for many years to come.”  He pushed himself against her and was rewarded by her breathless gasp.

A loud knock on the door brought them back to reality.  Euan growled loudly and Krisi was not shocked when the heavy door flew open and James McKenzie burst into the room.

“What have ye done Krisi?  Why would you bind yourself to him?  He is all but mad!”

James was breathing hard and completely ignoring Euan.

Euan growled again and when he spoke his words were garbled with his growling.

“Leave here wolf or we will end the peace that has lasted so long.”

Krisi grasped Euan by the arms. 
“
Listen to me Euan.  He does not understand what is happening to you.  He is my friend and seeks to protect me.”

“Nay!”  Euan leapt from the bed and Krisi cried out in pain as he was dislodged from her too quickly.  He looked down at her in puzzlement before he focused on James.

James could see the evidence of Krisi’s sacrifice in the blood that was smeared on Euan’s rigid shaft.

“Did ye have to be so cruel?  She was an innocent and ye took her like a common whore!”

“No!  James, he was exceedingly gentle!”

“You will leave here wolf.  My mate needs no protection from you.  I will protect her from any foe.”

“Even yourself Euan?  Ca
n you protect her from yourself?”

Euan narrowed his eyes on the man that stood before him.  He flinched when Krisi’s small hand flattened against his massive chest.  She stood gloriously naked between him and his enemy.  He wanted to rip James McKenzie apart for interrupting them.  He wanted to gouge out the man’s eyes for looking upon her beauty, but he only stood while she spoke.

“James.  I am unharmed and I think you have overstepped here.  I think you would be angered if someone interrupted you and your mate’s first time together.  I think you should leave us and I will see you later at the evening meal.  Is Courage with you?”

James softened at the sound of his mate’s name. 

“Aye, she is.  She will be please for ye Krisi.  You are precious to us and I hope you are happy with what you have done.”

Her smile was radiant when she met Euan’s hostile gaze.

“I am overwhelmed with joy.”

James nodded and closed the door as he left them alone again.

Krisi threw herself into Euan’s arms and tried to calm her breathing.  She looked up to find Euan’s hair darkening.  She pushed into his mind and found that he was waging a battle against his rage and he was losing.

He squeezed her once more before he spoke.

“Leave me Krisi.  I am weakening and I will not risk yer safety.  Hurry!”

He pushed her to the door and pulled it open.  She stood naked in the hall staring at the closed door.

“Lock th
e door Krisi!  Please hurry lass
.”

Her hands shook as she reached for the heavy iron key and placed it in the lock.  As soon as the lock clicked in the door she heard a pitiful whimper coming from the other side.  Then there was a crash and she felt the door shutter.  She stepped back as she heard Euan’s snarled words.

“Get away from me!  Can’t you see what you have done?  Do you enjoy my pain?
  You bring this torment to me with your presence!
”

Tears streamed down her face as she ran down the hall to the stairs that lead to her chamber.  She was stopped by a pair of roughened hands and clasped against a wide chest.

8

“Krisi?  What happened?  Are ye alright Lass?”  Deaglan asked as he held the fragile woman in his arms
.  He felt slightly uncomfortable with her naked skin against his, but he endured it in order to comfort her.  He lifted her and carried her shivering form up the stairs and into her chamber.  He sat her down just inside the open portal.

“Now what is it?”  He asked gently.

“He didn’t mean it.  I know he didn’t mean it.”  She sobbed as she felt his warm hand on her back.

“Nay lass he does not ken what he says when the darkness takes hold.”  He lifted her chin and smiled down into her beautiful blue eyes.  He heard a gasp and turned to find Angelica watching him with an ashen face.

“How could you?”  She whispered in a voice filled with grief.

Deaglan was puzzled for a moment and then he realized what the girl must think.

“Angel my love ye ken there is naught here.  Why would ye think there ever could be?”
  He smiled at his young mate, but his smile faded quickly with her next words.

“Don’t lie to me!  I smell you on her and I smell sex.”  She hissed.  “How did you?  I thought it could not be done once a man found his mate, but you have found a way!”  She stopped and her face grew paler.  “Unless I am not your true mate.”  Her eyes were round and filled with tears as she looked from Krisi to Deaglan.  “Why didn’t you tell me?  How could you let me throw myself at you every day and know that I am not truly to be yours?
  I feel so stupid!
”  Angelica choked on a sob and when Deaglan went to her she ran.

“Angelica! 
Please!  It is not what is seems.  We are mated.”  He finished in an ang
uished whisper.  “I am sorry for
that Krisi.  You have enough problems without my little mate accusing you unjustly.  I will speak with her now.”

“I understand her feelings and I would have reacted in a similar way had it been Euan with another woman.  Go to her Deaglan.”

Krisi wrapped her arms around her shivering body and walked to her bed.  She wept bitter tears until her eyes were swollen.  She drifted to sleep and didn’t wake until the sun was shining brightly through her window.

She rose from her bed and poured water into a basin.  She washed and found that the remnants of her mating were still on her thighs.  She scrubbed them away and wondered if Deaglan had convinced Angelica of his innocence or if she was still angry with him.  She dressed and made her way to the hall to break her fast.  She found it empty.  She turned in a circle searching for a sign of anyone, but she saw no one, not even a servant scurried through the halls. 

She made her way into the baily and found that only a few peasants milled around the baily.  She stopped one and asked where the inhabitants of
the castle were.  She was told that the lady Angelica was missing and that everyone had gone in search of her, all that were able anyway.  She knew what that meant.  The tigers and the wolves had gone in search of the girl, but she was only a Fairborn and worthless in this.  She hung her head as tears stung her eyes.  She made her way to the tower room where her mate had been housed and found the door open and the room empty.  They had even allowed Euan to search for the missing girl, but they hadn’t even seen fit to inform her of the situation. 

It would always be like this she realized.  There would be great hunts and grand adventures that she would not be able to share in because she was not one of them.  Could she stand it?  The isolation and the loneliness?  Her pain from the night before closed in around her and she sank to the bed where Euan had loved her so gently.  She curled into his blankets and slept
.

Krisi woke to the dimness of the room and a gnawing hunger.  She hadn’t eaten since the noon meal the day before and she was in need of some nourishment.  She stood a
nd tried to straighten her tunic
when a faint light caught her eye.  She looked up to find her father sitting in the chair near the window.

Her face broke into a huge smile when he stood and opened his arms to her.

“How did you get here?”

“I am always here when you are in need child.  You should know that.”

“I do need you.”  Her voice was choked and her father frowned and lifted her chin.

“What has happened here child?  The place is deserted.  I had to use my powers to find you for there was no one to direct me.”

Krisi sat in a chair beside her father and explained the events that had happened the past few days.  He listened intently and made no comment until she was finished.  He nodded then and closed his eyes.  His lips moved faintly and Krisi knew he was calling for Karic and his infinite wisdom.  When his eyes opened they glowed with intensity.

“I am to take you to Stewart castle.  There are those there who will help you in your troubles.”

Krisi nodded.  “I should not leave Euan.  We are planning to go to Stewart Castle anyway.  I should wait and go with him.”

“No.  We will leave now.  It appears that these creatures c
are very little about your well
being
.  I will remove you now.  Perhaps your mate will realize his error and learn from it.”