be there soon.”
When she only yawned then nodded in response, he slipped his arm across her shoulders and pulled her against him, asking, “Tired?”
“Very.” But the knowledge that they were getting closer to her son now had her nerves on edge. Besides, his fingers circling her shoulder, and the warmth of his side against hers, had her wishing for something more than sleep.
Even though she didn’t feel his presence in her mind, his deep chuckle let her know that he was tuned in to her thoughts and she tried to pull away, but he simply swept her into his arms and across his lap as if she were nothing more than a rag doll.
“Where were we before your mother appeared?”
The warmth of his breath whispering against her ear sent shivers down her spine. Caitlin sighed and pushed against his shoulder. “Not in public.” She had no intention of joining any mile-high club.
“There’s no one here.” He made a show of looking around the empty cabin. “It’s not as if we’re aboard a commercial airliner.”
“Was that your brother on the phone?” She tried to change the direction of their conversation before it got out of control.
“Of course.” While he followed her lead with the conversation, he didn’t stop caressing her shoulder. In fact, the free hand he’d placed on her stomach was now inching higher.
“Anything I should know? Did he discover something about little Sean?”
“No. We were discussing our living arrangements at Mirabilus.”
“What do you mean by our living arrangements?” She sucked back a soft gasp as he brushed his hand along the underside of her breast.
“As in where we’ll be sleeping.”
He’d easily, and all too conveniently, ignored the intended emphasis she’d placed on the word our. Caitlin wished she could just as easily ignore the warmth of his hand that had trailed away from her shoulder to steadily stroke the sensitive spot beneath her ear. With all of the calmness she could muster, she asked, “Any reason we can’t have separate rooms?”
“A few.” He leaned his head down to rest his lips behind her ear. “For one thing, while it may be a castle, it doesn’t have near unlimited supply of empty rooms.”
“Uh-huh.” She closed her eyes, savoring the rush of sexually charged pleasure rippling to life. She really should stop him.
And she would...soon.
“For another thing—” he paused to graze her earlobe with his teeth then continued “—why wouldn’t we share a room?”
His lips joined in the play along with his teeth. She wasn’t certain which would make her lose focus first—the light nips from his teeth or the gentle suckling of his lips. She’d had no idea earlobes could be that sensitive. Caitlin leaned away, but he just followed along.
“We aren’t a couple.” For some reason her tone didn’t sound too sure of that fact even to her own ears.
“No?”
He brushed his thumb across her breast. Her nipples strained through the layers of clothing to get closer to his touch. She gritted her teeth to keep from crying out with longing, swallowed hard and finally said, “No. We aren’t.”
He caressed her thigh, making her jump in surprise. When had he moved his hand from her breast? While she was still sorting through that quandary, he asked, “So, we don’t have a child together?”
“Yes, we do.” She grabbed his hand, stopping him from sliding it between her thighs.
“So at some point in time we were most definitely a couple.”
She couldn’t argue that point. However, she responded, “We were only together a few nights.”
“And days.”
He relaxed the hand on her leg. Caitlin followed suit, easing up on the confining grip she had on his hand. Sean entwined his fingers through hers and lifted their joined hands to his lips.
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