Boyett-Compo Charlotte - Wind Tales 01 by Windfall

de Viennes is only...."
    He had came up off the ground and over her in one lithe bound, pushing her down amongst the heather
    and covering her with his powerful body.
    “No man,” he said from between clenched teeth, “will have you save me, Milady Gillian!"
    “Is that so?” she teased, her eyes sparking fire for the mere weight of him was a joy she had long wanted
    and dreamed of.
    “Aye, that's so!” He clasped her wrists in one strong hand and brought them up over her head, shifting
    his body so that he lay between her slightly parted legs. “Swear it, Gillian,” he growled, gripping her chin
    with his free hand. “Swear it!"
    Her lips had parted from the hunger that had suddenly coursed through her belly. “I swear it,” she
    whispered.
    Naive in the ways of love, ignorant of the passions racing through the grown man poised above her, she
    ran her tongue over her upper lip. Her eyes flared wide as a fierce groan rumbled from Kaelan's chest
    only a fraction of a second before his mouth slashed across her in a kiss so savage, so possessive, it took
    her breath away.
    Kaelan was as mindless to what he was doing to the young, untried body lying beneath his as he was of
    the storm clouds that had gathered overhead and were, even then, racing pell-mell across a
    suddenly-dark sky. His only thought was of the pulsing need in his shaft and the soft curves upon which
    he rested.
    Driving his tongue deep into Gillian's mouth—his eyes squeezed tight in concentration—he did not see
    her own eyes fly open with stunned surprise, nor cloud with intense desire as she instinctively thrust her
    hips up toward him. But he felt that submissive action to the very depths of him and his hand slid from her
    chin to her breast: cupping, caressing, molding her flesh through the fabric of her gown.
    A loud crack overhead startled them both and Kaelan jumped as though he'd been prodded by an
    electrical current.
    Or his conscience.
    His eyes snapped open and he looked-really looked-into Gillian's eyes and saw the mistake he'd almost
    made. “Oh, god!” he gasped, rolling off her and into the safety of the grass. He pressed his rigid member
    against the ground, causing himself acute pain. “God!” he repeated.
    “W ... what's wrong?” she asked, reaching out to touch him.
    “DON'T!” he ordered.
    Gillian stared at him where he lay plastered to the grass. “Did I hurt you?” Adele had told her all about
    where to aim a kick at a man who might be pestering her; she thought perhaps she'd somehow injured
    Kaelan in that most vulnerable of male places. “Is it your cock, Kaelan? Did I...?"
    “Gillian, hush!” he breathed. He turned horrified eyes to her. “Where did you learn language like that?"
    “Adele says..."
    “I should have known!” he bit out, cutting her off. “Don't ever use that word again, do you hear?"
    “Aye,” she said, somewhat hurt. What was so wrong about a mere word?
    “Gunter should know what his wife has been discussing with her innocent sister,” Kaelan grumbled. How
    dare the woman tell Gillian about the effects of arousing a man!
    “Would you have me defenseless, then, against men like Rolf de Viennes?” she snapped.
    Nothing else the young woman said could have caused the intense reaction that de Viennes’ name did in
    Kaelan. He reached out and snagged her hand, jerking her toward him. “Defenseless, how, Milady
    Gillian?” he bellowed.
    Gillian flinched, for his fingers were biting into her flesh. She tried to pried his hand away, but he
    tightened his grip. “You're hurting me, Kaelan,” she told him.
    “How, Gillian?"
    “He's always pestering me!” she shouted back, trying to twist her hand from his hold. “Adele said if I
    kneed him in the c...” she stopped at his look of warning, “It wasn't important!” She jerked on his hold.
    “Damn it, Hesar, let go!"
    The steel of the erection that had pained him so greatly had fled. He let go of her hand, glancing down to
    see if he