Highland Tigress (Tiger Series) Read Free

will cost me.
    Cara was mortified. She had just sent Alice to see to Ramsey, and he was to be her own husband. Why did it not bother her? She only felt relief that it was Alice and not herself that would endure him this night. She frowned over it until she was forced to dress for the evening meal.
     
    Ramsey sneered at Alice when she came to him.
    “Where is Lady Cara?”
    Alice smiled coyly, “she has sent me my laird. She told me to pleasure ye as you wish. Do I not please ye my laird?”
    “We shall see. I doubt you’ll last long enough to do me much good,” he said and threw her roughly to the bed.
    Alice struggled only because she wished to get out of her gown before he ripped it. It earned her a hard smack to the jaw.
    “Be still, you little wench. If I wanted a fight I would go grab a lass from the village. You came here willing enough, so be still while I take what was given to me by my future wife.” He began to rip her dress from her body. He pinched and groped her body until she cried out in pain.
    “Please, my laird, I am most willing. Must you treat me so ill?”
    “Aye. I will do what I please with you, as you were a gift to me. You may thank your lady for the pleasure you receive tonight and all the other nights I am here without her in my bed. You will come to me every night before I bathe. And as my gift I may share you as I please.”
    She shivered and he laughed uproaringly at the fear that made her eyes glassy pools in her face. Then he plunged into her and her words to Lady Cara rushed back to haunt her. Pain encased her as Ramsey continued to plunge into her. She tried to wiggle free of him, but he only slapped her harder and continued to ravage her body. He took his pleasure on her for what seemed like hours. When she finally collapsed on her she was so grateful that she didn’t pay heed to his words, she only thanked her maker that he was finished with her. Her womb burned like fire, but with the other pains attacking her body she paid little heed to it. He then stood from the bed and commanded her to see to his now cool bath. She stood on quivering legs and complied as best she could, but her body refused and she collapsed before she was done. He kicked her out of his way and finished on his own.
    When he was finished he dressed and simply dragged her to the door and shoved her naked form from his chamber. When she realized where she was she was horrified. Her body was sore and she burned deep in her belly where he had deposited his seed. A wave of dizziness almost over took her as she stumbled slowly to her quarters. She collapsed on her small cot and fell asleep.
     
    Alice awoke several hours later to the feel of a cool cloth on her forehead.
    “What has happened to ye wee Alice?” Old Sara asked.
    “Och, just a bit of sport. Nothin’ to worry over.”
    “Nay Lass, ‘tis more’n that I fear. Who was it that did this to ye then?”
    “Lady Cara sent me to her intended. I took care of him right proper too.”
    Old Sara pulled back the quilt and pointed to Alice’s thigh. “That is not normal, lass, you’d do well to stay away from the McKenzie.”
    Alice gasped at the blisters that coated her thighs. It looked as if she’d been burned with hot grease. She remembered the McKenzie muttering about not leaving her with too much of him inside for fear she wouldn’t be of any use later. She hadn’t understood at the time, but now she feared what his seed had done to her body. “What could cause such a thing?”
    “Evil lass. Pure evil. Stay clear of him. Hear?”
    Alice only nodded and watched old Sara leave the room.
    She tried to pull herself from her cot and fell back gasping in pain as she tried to sit up. She simply laid there unable to move for the pain that shot fiery fingers through her legs and her womb. What could be wrong with a man that could cause such pain in a woman he’d bedded? Could it simply be evil as Sara had said? She didn’t know and was soon taken again