Savage Abandon

Mia was becoming almost mindless with desire as the kiss deepened and Wolf Hawk began kneading one of her breasts through the soft doeskin of her dress. The mere touch of his hand there made her feel as though she might faint from the desire that was sweeping through her.

And when his other hand reached down and began moving slowly up the inside of one of her legs, touching places that seemed to come alive beneath his exploring fingers, Mia sucked in a wild breath of desire.

When his fingers touched that place where her heart seemed suddenly centered, where no man’s hands had been before, she could feel something wonderful being aroused in her. It was a sweetness, a spiraling plea sure, that she never knew existed.

He caressed her where she now throbbed with a need she had never known before. She clutched his neck as he twined his fingers through the strands of auburn hair at the juncture of her thighs, then sank one of those fingers slowly into her. She knew she should not allow such intimacies until she was a married woman, but she just couldn’t stop him. She had never felt anything so deliciously wonderful as the feelings being awakened inside her.

It was as though something was ready to explode with ecstasy throughout her.

“I can stop i

f you wish me to,” Wolf Hawk suddenly whispered into her ear, yet he did not miss one stroke inside her with his finger.

He knew he was arousing her for the first time in her life, for her innocence was plain to see. She was not the sort to let just any man touch and caress her.

He could hardly consider stopping what he had initiated, for his loins were on fire with need, his manhood tight and throbbingly hot.

But he knew the kind of woman she was and did not want to cause her to feel shame if they did continue.

Almost too mindless to think, Mia was breathless with the plea sure that was overwhelming her. Oh, how could she ask him to stop when everything within her cried out to be with him totally, to share with him what she knew they both wanted?

Of course she knew what her mother had taught her about sinning with a man before vows were spoken.

But since so much had happened to her, and she had realized just how quickly one’s world could be changed, she had a new attitude toward life and love. Who was to say there would even be another tomorrow for her or Wolf Hawk?

“I will marry you soon,” Wolf Hawk said softly as he leaned away from her and gazed into her wondering eyes. “Yet if you would rather wait to make love until vows are spoken between us, I will understand.”

Seeing that he did respect her and was actually willing to wait, Mia felt her eyes mist with grateful tears. She had known that he was not the sort to force anything on a woman.

She had instigated their lovemaking as much as he, for something inside her cried out for his caresses and kisses.

Even the fact that she had allowed him access to that place where only she had touched, as she had washed herself so delicately, proved to her just how much she did trust and need him.

She placed a gentle hand on his cheek, her own hot with a blush. “I don’t think I can wait after realizing just how much I need you,” she murmured. “Wolf Hawk, I love you so dearly. And I do believe that you will marry me, so, my love, I do not think I can bear another moment without you making love to me. I…I…love you. Oh, how I do love you.”

“I do not know how it happened, but I fell in love with you almost as soon as I met you. But I could not act out that love, for at that moment I was not certain what your being at the fort with your father and that tiny man truly meant,” he said huskily.

He reached a hand up and gently smoothed several locks of fallen hair back from her flushed cheeks.

“Were you to have been associated with those trappers, you would have been my enemy forever,” he said thickly.

“But neither I, my father, or Tiny had anything to do with them,” Mia said. “It was just coincidence that we happened to be where those evil men hid the pelts.”

“Ho, I believe you, and I regret that I did not know the truth from the beginning, for I could have possibly helped your father by taking him to Talking Bird for his special medicine,” Wolf Hawk said, now tenderly rubbing her cheek with a finger. “That was not meant to be. But you and I are.”

He brushed a soft kiss across her lips. “We were meant to be,” he repeated. “We were meant to meet and come together. When we wed, we will be as one until a child is born of our love. Then we will be three, not two.”

“A child,” Mia sighed. She adored the thought of having a baby, especially with Wolf Hawk fathering it. “A son? A daughter? I so badly wish to have both. I was raised as an only child. It was lonely, Wolf Hawk, ever so lonely.”

“I, too, was the only child born of my mother and father’s love,” Wolf Hawk said. He smiled into her eyes when she saw surprise leap into them. “You see, my mother was not strong. She gave birth to me, then died shortly after. My father never married again.”

“My parents were everything to me,” Mia murmured.

“They are gone, so I will be that everything now, my woman,” Wolf Hawk said, then swept both arms beneath her and brought her lips to his again with savage abandon.

Mia was not certain how it happened, but suddenly she realized that they both were unclothed.

His naked body pressed against hers, and she felt the full length of his manhood as he guided it with his hand between her legs. He pressed it against her opening, where she only now realized that she was wet and ready for his entrance.