Sold to the Wolf Chief for a Debt, but His Wolf Knelt First novel · Chapter 6 of 24

Chapter 6: The Bothy

The bothy was one stone room with an iron cot, a tin stove and a lantern.

I had it lit and the stove going before he had finished telling me to go home.

"Sit," I said.

He sat on the cot.

I cut the sleeve off his shirt with the scissors from the tin and looked at his forearm.

Four deep punctures ran in a curve from wrist to elbow, with the flesh swollen black around them.

"That's a jaw," I said.

"It's nothing."

"It's a Lorne man's jaw, and you went out to meet him on the road because he came to look at the gate."

His eyes came up sharply.

"Peigi," I said. "She misses nothing."

I cleaned the bites with water from the kettle, and he sat rigid and let me.

When I poured the iodine he swore softly and gripped the edge of the cot.

"Hold still," I said.

"I am," he said.

"You're not. You've been shaking since I came in the door."

"It's cold," he said.

"It's not."

I wound the bandage round and round.

I tied it off and sat back on my heels.

His good hand rose and brushed my cheek, and I felt the whole of the day come down on me.

His thumb was on my lower lip.

"Careful," Coll said quietly.

I took his wrist in my hand and put his palm flat on the blanket.

"Lie back," I said.

"Ishbel."

"Lie back, or I'll tie you."

He went very still.

"Tie me," he said.

I had not expected that.

I had a hank of red wool in my pocket that I'd taken from Peigi's sewing basket that morning, without asking myself why.

I held it up, and the lantern lit it scarlet.

He lay back on the cot and put both arms above his head.

I looped the wool twice around his wrists and knotted it to the iron frame.

I tied it to hold and not to hurt, and I checked the knot with two fingers under the loop.

"Too tight?" I asked.

"No."

"Tell me if it is."

"It isn't," he said.

I stood and looked down at him.

He lay stretched out on the grey blanket with his shirt hanging in two pieces.

He was a scarred, broad-chested man on his back with his wrists tied, and he was watching me with his whole attention.

I pulled my jumper over my head.

I unhooked my bra and let it fall.

His chest rose, and a muscle moved in his stomach.

"Don't look away," I said.

"I'd not."

I knelt beside him on the cot and undid his belt and drew his trousers down.

He was already hard.

I took him in my hand, and I did not hurry.

I stroked him from root to tip with a loose, slow fist.

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