My Mate Was Buried at Christmas, So His Three Brothers Claimed Me novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: Slow

Remy shut the door on the last of the lanterns and set the latch, and then he turned the lamp up instead of down.

"Leave it," he said, when I reached for the wick. "I want to see you."

Alexis had taken Hugo by the collar on the porch.

They had gone to stoke the sauna, and Alexis had looked back at me with a grin that promised a bill.

"They'll feel everything," I said.

"I know."

"Does that bother you?"

"I have wanted you for six years in the dark," Remy said. "Let them feel it."

He knelt on the boards at my feet and unlaced my boots.

He did it slowly, one lace and then the other, and he set each boot by the stove with care.

He peeled off my wool socks and cupped my cold foot in both hands.

Then he kissed the arch of it.

I pushed my fingers into his hair.

"Stand up for me," he said.

I stood, and he undressed me in the lamplight, an inch at a time.

He pulled my sweater over my head and folded it.

He opened my jeans and pushed them down my thighs, and he kissed every part of me he uncovered.

My hipbones.

The soft low curve of my stomach.

The inside of my knee.

When I was bare he stayed on his knees and looked up the length of me.

"The season ended this morning," he said quietly. "You said when it ended, so did this."

"I said that," I said.

"The heat is going out of my blood. I can feel it go."

"And?" I said.

"And I want you more than I did on the first night," Remy said.

His voice shook on it.

I took his bearded jaw in my hand and tipped his face up.

"Then I take back every word of that term," I said. "Try to end it and see what happens."

"Is that a dare?"

"It's a promise."

He rose and lifted me off my feet and laid me on the big bed.

He stripped with the lamp burning gold on his shoulders, and the long white scar across his ribs shone.

He lay down beside me on his back and put his hands on my hips.

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