Page 103 of My Highland Abduction
“Together,” she echoed, baring her neck even as she prepared to mark him in return.
Their bites came at the same time—his canines piercing her skin as hers sank into the corded muscle where his neck met his shoulder.The pain was white-hot, catapulting them both over the edge.Sienna screamed her release, her body seizing around him as waves of pleasure crashed through her.He pulsed inside her, his climax triggered by hers, filling her with heat as he shuddered above her.
They clung to each other, gasping and trembling as pain blurred into ecstasy.Sex and satisfaction saturated the air, the coppery tang of blood coated their tongues, and the musk of a successful mating swirled around them.
He licked the mark he’d left, soothing the sting.The gesture sent aftershocks through her, making her whimper and clutch at him.
“Mine,” he whispered, voice wrecked.
“Yours,” she said, lips brushing the mark she’d given him.“And you’re mine.Forever.”
They weren’t done.Their leopards demanded more, and their human sides were greedy.He was already hardening inside her again, and she rolled them over, straddling him with a wicked smile.
“My turn,” she purred, and began to move.
Later—much later—Sienna lay curled against his chest, her body satiated and tingling.She traced the fresh mark on Liam’s neck—warm, swollen, and pulsing with their bond.The moment her fingertips brushed the bite, a ragged breath escaped him, his body responding to her touch.
“Careful,” he warned, voice rough.“Keep that up, and we won’t sleep at all tonight.”
“Promise?”she teased, but let her hand fall to his chest.
She traced patterns on his skin, marveling that he was here and was hers.When she touched her own mark, sharp pain mixed with an echo of pleasure made her breath catch.The bond between them thrummed, connecting them in ways she’d never imagined.
“How do you feel?”she asked into the darkness.
His arms tightened around her.“Complete.Like everything before this was waiting for you.”
She smiled, eyes closing, until he kissed her temple.
“Sienna?Will you marry me?”
“Are you asking because we’re mated now?”
“No.”His hand smoothed over her ribs.“Because I want the universe to know you chose me.Human law, shifter law, every law that exists.I’ve had the ring in my bag since before I left.I bought it in Tekapo after you wrote me that letter about the break-in, when you said you impressed yourself with your own strength.”
Her throat tightened.“That long?”
“That’s when I knew.You weren’t merely surviving anymore.You were thriving and ready for the next step.We were both ready.”
Emotion clawed up her throat, sharp and hot.“Yes!Yes, I’ll marry you.”
His grin was everything—joyful and disbelieving and stunned.“Good.Because I had no backup plan if you said no.”
She laughed.“The ring can wait until tomorrow.I’m not letting you out of this bed.”
“We have forever,” he said, pulling her closer beneath the quilt.“And I plan to spend every minute showing you how much you mean to me.”
As they drifted toward sleep, wrapped in love and moonlight and the scent of each other, Sienna knew whatever came next—weddings, land, building their life together—they’d face it side by side.
They had found their way home to each other.And they weren’t going anywhere.
Their leopards purred in agreement, at peace.Sienna pressed closer, breathing Liam in, and smiled against his chest as his arms tightened around her one last time before sleep claimed them both.
