Highland Secrets (English Edition) (12 page)

“Do the eggs taste good
?”, Adam enquired with a grin on his face. His gaze, however, was asking me something else. There was a fire in his eyes that moved from my face, over my breasts and down to my naked legs that were only hidden in blue silk shorts. I swallowed with a dry feeling in my throat and moved my legs closer together to get rid of the throbbing between my legs.

The memory of our hot kiss returned and I chewed my
finger nail out of uncertainty. I didn’t plan for Adam to give me dirty thoughts, but he was doing it because he approached my chair, his head darted downwards and he licked from one corner of my mouth to the other with his tongue.

When I stared at him alarmed, he casually answered
: “I just wanted to see if the eggs are really so good that they make your face go red.”

“And, what do you think?
”, I said still breathless. I would have preferred to also let him sample the orange juice and the coffee.

“A lot better than I thought.”

“Then you should also have a plate”, Molly intervened and looked just as unmoved as she always did. Although, she was actually a little angry and tired. Maybe she was the one who had had a restless night last night?

Adam
sat down next to me and his leg rubbed up against mine. He took his fork in one hand, laid his other hand on my thigh, slowly stroked it upwards and only stopped when his finger was almost touching my warm vagina. I stiffened up and Adam laughed quietly and also threateningly in an erotic way.

“I like what you’re wearing today.”
Molly cleared her throat while she washed the dishes in the dishwasher. It felt like a colony of bees were buzzing around in my stomach when Adam slipped his finger up a tiny bit further and touched the small pearl which awoke with a twitch. My breathing was more shallow and I gave Molly a nervous look. She still stood with her back to us. She was therefore unable to see anything. My instinct was to push against Adam’s fingers and move his hand away because I was scared Molly might discover what we were doing right now. What Adam was doing.

“I don’t hear the sound of forks scratching porcelain”,
Molly uttered. “I don’t want to turn around now and see something that even the professor would like to have seen. Unless, it is something serious between you and the young lady, Mr. MacLeod.” Molly turned around just as I was pushing Adam’s hand away. But Adam, the rascal that he is, grinned cheekily and confidently at Molly and she immediately furrowed her brow in mock disapproval. “Just as I thought.”

I brushed my plate aside, drank my coffee in one gulp and got up. I would never be able to look into the old woman’s eyes again.
As I left the kitchen looking at Adam with a scowl on my face, there was a heavy knock on the door.

“Somebody’s in a hurry”, I mumbled and
I went to open it so that whoever was at the door would finally take their finger off the door bell. I pulled the door open and gave a reproachful look that was immediately wiped from my face when I saw the woman at the door who shifted nervously from one leg to the other.

“Do you need to use the
toilet?” I said to her harshly.

“Is … is Adam there
?«, she enquired and bypassed the greeting because I had also done the same.

I looked back over my shoulder and called for Adam loudly making the effort to make it sound blasé, but in reality my stomach started to cramp up and my
heart constricted. It was probably one of Adam’s bed bunnies. I glanced at the woman. She looked Mediterranean, but didn’t have the distinctive dialect of the Italian girl who was here recently. However, there was still a degree of similarity. The long dark hair, the thin figure, incredibly erotic, chocolate-brown eyes.

When Adam approached, I turned away from the door without even looking at him and went up the stairs to the gallery emphasizing my indifference to the situation. I didn’t want to listen to or to see what happened between the two of them.

I was currently working on a landscape painting that looked very old. The hills and the wood in the background appeared familiar to me. Perhaps the wood was denser and covered the hills even more than it does now, but I was certain that the painting was a representation of this estate. Only the house looked a little different. This picture not only included the two square towers on the outside of the middle section, but also another tower in the center that towered above the other two. Maybe it had been demolished at some point.

Alfred
entered the room and was carrying a tray with a bulbous jug and a cup. “I thought I would bring you some tea.”

“Thank you
, Alfred. Please put it down on the small chest of drawers.”

Alfred did what I asked of him and remained standing behind me. “Those trousers really suit you, madam.”

I looked at him briefly, then tapped on the picture and didn’t comment on his observation. The old man has obviously been living with Adam for too long under one roof. I tapped on the picture in front of me. “Where has this tower gone? Do you happen to know?”

“It burnt down. I think it happened around 1900 as a result of a lightning strike.”

“That’s a real shame, it looked so beautiful”, I mumbled more to myself than to Alfred. “Has the visitor left?” I asked in a way that was as casual as it got, but I seriously doubted that Alfred had really failed to hear the trepidation in my voice.

“No, Linda. He took her up to his room.”

That was a real blow to me. I closed my eyes, took a deep breath and forced myself to calm down again. I knew he was like that. And I didn’t really expect him to change his lifestyle just because he had kissed me. Nevertheless, it still hurt and disappointed me to know that he could forget me so quickly when another woman knocked at the door. But what did I expect? All he wanted from me was sex. It was not as if he would worry about hurting my feelings if he preferred another woman over me.

“He wasn’t always like that. The right woman just has to
come along to end this”, said Alfred and he went.

Yes, the right woman, but I wasn’t her. If I
was the right one, then he wouldn’t be doing the things that he did to me in my fantasy with another woman. I swallowed hard, shook my head and got back to work. Releasing the painting piece by piece from the ravages of time would put me at ease. Don’t think about what Adam has just done, I said praying to myself.

A few minutes later with not much time having passed, the tea still being lukewarm, Adam entered the room. I tried to ignore him, but it was impossible. Every fiber of my body was aware of his presence. My back was tingling and I even noticed the slightest of movements he ma
de behind the desk. He really made his presence felt which made it too difficult to ignore him.

“Are you acting as if I’m not there?” Adam enquired and his dark voice made me shudder.

My stomach constricted and made my arms warm up. Damn it, I cursed. Even though I knew that he had just been with another woman, he only needed to speak to make me tremble with desire.

“So you’re going to ignore me. That’s fine.” He rustled the papers. “Would you tell me why?”

I turned around to him angrily. “Why? I don’t know? Why don’t you tell me?”

Adam
let out a wolf-like laugh. “Did I do something wrong? Or have I not done something? Give me a clue, you just never know what you’ve done wrong with you women.”

“Hah”
, I said sarcastically. “With us women? Wait. Yesterday, you almost tore my clothes off against the wall of a church and now you are disappearing off into bed with the next woman. But why am I actually annoyed. I knew that you were one of those men. Ah, just forget it.”

Adam thrust his head in his neck and laughed out loud. I squinted my eyes and threw my brush against his pulsating chest.

“You’re jealous. Didn’t you say that you
don’t know how to deal with men like me?”

I gasped for breath in desperation. “Jealous? That’s your oversized ego talking again. What should I be jealous about exactly?
That one ridiculous kiss? It wasn’t even any good”, I lied and I was aware of my face going red. “I can find a guy like you on any street corner”, I added, because I wanted to hurt him in the same way he had hurt me. But he didn’t promise me anything. I actually wasn’t entitled to be angry and disappointed.

“I like it that you’re jealous. It even turns me on, but I should probably clear everything
up. When you have calmed down, it might interest you to know that she wasn’t here because of that.”

I
frowned and looked at Adam incredulously. There was something about his face that made my anger disappear just like that. “What happened?” I blurted out.

“She is looking for her sister.”

“The Italian girl who was here recently?” I asked broaching the subject again. He avoided my gaze with pursed lips and moving cheek muscles. He looked so distraught that I walked around the desk, sat on the edge of the table and took one of his hands to show that I was there for him. He looked lost as he sat in the armchair.

“She’s the third one.”

“And you’ve slept with all of them”, I noted with an uneasy feeling. But I was certain that Adam had had nothing to do with what had happened to these women. “But, maybe she’s fine. I mean, nobody has found her. Maybe she has just moved on to the next guy”, I added not being very helpful.

Adam
looked at me doubtingly and then the expression on his face changed and became a little sombre. He put his hand on my naked knee and stroked the inside of it with his thum. “I don’t want to think about it anymore. I want you so much and the fact you were jealous drives me so crazy. And I could really do with a distraction, but I’m worried. What about if you’re the next?”

My
heart tripped for a moment. Not because I was worried that I might be the next one. But because of the other thing he had said with such excitement in his voice. Then I shook my head.

“Don’t talk like that. I’m sure the whole thing is a coincidence and has nothing to do with you. How many beautiful young female tourists come to
Dunvegan every day. There are definitely not too many of them and the amount of women you get through, it is surely not a coincidence that the women its happened to are those that you were together with”, I added with a wink, but had to force myself to suppress the uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

“Maybe you’re right”
, said Adam and slid his hand up my naked thigh and made every inch of my skin ignite on its way. His eyes sparkled cunningly as he rolled his armchair directly in front of me and laid his hands to the left and right of my knees on the desk.

“What was that you said again? The kiss wasn
’t very good? So it meant nothing that you were shaking with desire under my hands?” He put both hands on my knees and slowly pushed my legs apart. My breasts immediately tightened painfully and I was wet. He looked down at me and I could swear that his eyes were dark-blue with desire. He licked the inside of my knees with his tongue. My stomach seemed to be vibrating in expectation and I exhaled the air with a quiet groan.

“Adam …”, I whispered
. He stood up, positioned himself between my legs and pulled my bottom up to the edge of the table top. I felt a shiver go through my body as he pressed his erect penis against my warm vagina. He put his hands around my waist and lifted up the tanktop that I was wearing today and in doing so he slid his fingers across my breasts which stretched out towards him longingly. I sighed and bent over backwards. Adam threw the top carelessly to the floor and he was glowing as he paused to look into my eyes. He then stroked my hair with his fingers.

“It
reminds me of fire. This color blows my mind. Whenever I see you, I want to touch your hair and bury my nose in it. I feel aroused when you wear your hair down.”

He took a strand of my hair and
inhaled deeply. He then put the strand back over my shoulder, put his arm around my waist, pressed me even closer to his erection and bent the upper part of his body over me in a way which meant that I had to lean backwards. I put my hand behind my back for some support.

His hot lips were on my neck and, shaking, I caught my breath. He licked my skin from the collarbone right up to my ear. Then he sucked my earlobes. I didn’t know that earlobes could be so sensitive. My stomach started to tighten considerably and I moaned as I pressed myself against Adam’s penis.

“Oh, do that again”, I wailed and rubbed myself against him. I wrapped my legs around his thigh and crossed my feet behind him so that he could no longer get away from me. If I had ever had the power to escape from him, then this power was now gone and he hadn’t even kissed me yet.

Adam
removed my red silk bra so quickly that I only noticed it when fresh air hit my red hot skin. If it was possible, my nipples were getting even harder when he rubbed them with his thumbs. He kneaded the tip of my nipple and smiled contentedly.

“
They are plump and heavy”, he said misty-eyed. “And too big for me to get a hold of, I like that.” He sank his lips into one of my breasts and sucked on my nipple. I gave a surprised cry.