Chapter 4
“I’m in love with you.” Duncan didn’t say anything back, and Jude felt her temper snap. “When someone says that to you, Duncan, you should at least acknowledge it in some way. Not sit there like a bump on—”
“I love you. I was, in my own way, trying to figure out a way to say it so it would be the most romantic thing you’ve ever heard.” She grinned at him and told him saying it at all was romantic to her. “Then I love you to the moon and back. I love you more than there are stars in the sky. I love you with every beat my heart makes, every drop of blood that runs in my body.”
“That was perfect.” She leaned back against the couch again, looking up at the tree. “This is beautiful. I’ve said it before, I know, but with the house quiet, the tree here lit up like it is, it’s so nice. I know I’d get bored with it sooner rather than later, but there are times when I would love to have the tree up all the time. Just for moments like this one. Will you make love to me?”
“No. I’d rather we made love to each other.” Jude turned her head, just enough to look at Duncan. “What are you thinking right now? I’d like to know you better.”
“I’m not thinking about much of anything, really. Just marveling how much I’ve come to love being in the castle. Knowing too, I guess, that the others are going to be close enough to speak to. To visit. Miley and I have a good relationship too. I think, sometimes, that I’d love to skip over having an infant and having a child her age. However, I’m guessing that not all children are like her at her age.” Duncan told her it was doubtful any child was like Miley at any age. “You might be correct on that too. She’s a delight.”
“She keeps Mercy in check too.” That was true. Mercy seemed to be calmer and nicer when Miley was in the room. “I have a bed for us. It was one of the ones in storage I had brought here. The mattress arrived just before you and the others joined me here. Would you like to go up?”
“No. I’d like for you to make love to me right here. Under the tree.” He moved closer to her. “You’re all right with it? Making love right here in the room where everyone is going to be in a few hours? Now that I think on it, I think—”
“Don’t think. Just feel.” He kissed her then, taking her breath away with his mouth. He looked down at her from his position on the floor and smiled. “You’re so beautiful, I think seeing you naked and in my arms is going to be just too much for me and my poor little heart.”
He asked her not to undress herself. She was all right with him stripping her things off. It was like an unveiling to her, like he was opening a much anticipated gift. She supposed in a way, that was just what he was doing, opening her up so that the two of them could be together.
Duncan pulled her up from the floor as he began his work on disrobing her. Touching her fingers to his skin was so wonderfully sexy. It was soft yet firm. Duncan worked hard every day, and it showed in the way his body had formed. When she was naked before him, he didn’t touch her but took his fill of looking at her.
“I was wrong about how wonderful you’d look to me for the first time. I don’t think there have been words invented that convey how lovely you are. How wonderfully beautiful you look.” Jude told him she loved him. “And I you, Judith. I love you with all my heart.”
They didn’t make love so much as they touched one another. Familiarized themselves with the other’s body. She found out that he was ticklish along his ribs. That his nipples were hard peaks, as were hers. His body was smooth except for the line of fur that went from his navel to his cock. His cock, she saw, was dark with blood, and as stiff as her own nipples.
“I would love to make love to you slowly, to taste every inch of you. But the way you’re looking at me has me wanting to fill you right now. To come deep inside of you so that I might claim you.” Jude wrapped her hand around his cock. “Christ, Judith. That’s not helping at all.”
“I want to take you into my mouth.” His groan made her pussy heat. “There is so much about you I want to explore. Things I want to taste of you. Touch too.”
“I’m at your disposal. Do with me as you wish, love.” He smiled devilishly. “But know I’m going to want to be able to do the same things to you when you’re finished. If I survive you, that is.”
Being able to explore him was amazing. She could touch him anywhere she wanted, which she did. His spine was sexy to her, the way it started at his head, and ended in his wonderfully firm ass. When she went to her knees, he begged her to touch his cock. Licking his knees, fondling his calves, nearly got her into deep trouble with him.
“I’m going to come all over you if you don’t touch me soon. I swear I’m going to explode right— Holy mother of god, yes.”
Taking his cock into her mouth, she
