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    Hot, wet desire pooled between her trembling thighs as his mouth traveled up her neck and kissed the soft spot behind her ear leaving a trail of gooseflesh everywhere his lips touched. Her pulse throbbed wildly as his bold fingers dipped into her panties and skillfully stroked her slick arousal. She moaned deep in her throat at the thrilling, intimate exploration.
    Kate’s lower belly quivered with erotic spasms and her legs felt like jelly as she squirmed and gripped his forearms. Squeezing her eyes shut, she drew in shallow breaths and tried to hold on to the last shred of control. But she was close…alarmingly close to the mind-blowing sweet surrender he’d asked for earlier. Acute, pleasurable sensations formed a spiraling tornado that spread from the apex of her swollen sex to every tingling nerve ending of her body. 
    Alec’s fingers stopped abruptly and pulled back to look at her. The gleaming ferocity in his eyes took her breath away.
    “No. Don’t stop!” she said, practically hyperventilating.
    “What do you want, Katie?” he gritted in a taut voice.
    “I want you, Alec.”
    He peeled her panties down and off.  “I want to see you shatter in my arms…to be the one who makes you lose control.”
    “Yes,” she panted, her voice throaty as air barely escaped her throat.
    “Who is in charge?” Alec’s blazing topaz eyes challenged her with a look so darkly erotic, she shivered.
    “You are,” she purred, arching her pelvis upward.
    “Aye.” Alec pushed aside the hem of his kilt and entered Kate slowly until she adjusted to his size. Her hands closed over his muscular buttocks and her legs locked around his waist as she arched upward, taking in each driving stroke with giddy eagerness. The starched cotton of his shirt chafed her sore nipples and his wool kilt abraded her thighs as he surged inside her.
    Kate teetered on the brink of madness as Alec made love to her like a man possessed, with such raw, primal passion, she could scarcely breathe. So delirious was she for all of him, she would have begged him not to stop if he had. His face strained, Alec held her face between his hands, his eyes boring into hers, obliging her to meet them. Her pelvis bucked beneath him, wanting more, more . And suddenly her soaring crescendo peaked and she imploded, careening wildly out of control.
    She clutched Alec’s tight buttocks until he reached a fierce climax and his deep voice rumbled out of his chest. “Kate, beautiful Kate, you’ve come back to me.”
    With a hoarse shudder, he withdrew and collapsed on his back, pulling her on top of him. She could hear his hammering heart as she pressed her cheek against his heaving chest. Kate kissed the hollow of his throat and slid a hand inside his open shirt, resting it over his heart.
     
    Kate had no idea what time it was when she awakened. The commotion outside only meant one thing—Hogmanay was in full swing.
    “Wake up,” she said, patting Alec’s face when he didn’t open his eyes.
    “What?” he said drowsily.
    “It’s Hogmanay.”
    “Happy New Year, beautiful,” he said, kissing her temple.
    “Happy New Year, handsome.” Her fingers climbed his chest. “Aren’t you going to do your duty?”
    “What do you mean?”
    “Maisie and Don told me about the first footing tradition where a tall, dark and handsome stranger arrives with a gift of coal to bring good luck to the New Year.”
    “And?” He pulled back and looked at her.
    “It’s time to do your duty, dark-haired Highlander. I’m suddenly famished and not for coal. Is there anything to eat here?”
    Alec quirked a thick eyebrow. “Back to issuing orders, eh? I gave you something far better than coal.”
    “Aye, you did,” she said, imitating his Scottish accent. She looked down and began to chuckle.
    “What’s so funny?”
    “Look at us. My couture gown is bunched up around my waist and you’re lying here with your kilt askew.” She sat up and somehow managed to