The Not So Secret Baby (3 page)

Sinyn sat up beside Izzy and took her hand. “There is a legend on Inis Daire when it comes to the Donnelly men. The woman we marry is the one that carries our child.”

Izzy raised her eyebrows at this. “Well that’s kinda inconvenient if you knock up several women.”

“I never have. I’ve been waiting for you. I was told as a lad that the woman I would take as a wife would come from across the sea.” He leaned over and tweaked her nose. “And here you are.”

****

“Considering you live on a small island, it’s not a great a stretch of the imagination that you would marry someone out of town.” The whole marriage thing had Izzy freaked out. Yes, the sex was amazing, but marriage based on having sex twice didn’t indicate happily ever after to her.

“Old Katie is never wrong.”

“Who is this Old Katie chick?”
And why the hell is she making pronouncements that concern me?

Sinyn laughed. “She’s an ancient Inis Daire seer who predicts the future,” Sinyn explained. “I’d like you to meet her on your travels around the island.”

That suggested a longevity Izzy hadn’t considered. She had thought this would be a chat about upbringing, schools, and access rights. “I’m not staying that long.” She started to get up. She needed to shower. Her thighs were sticky with the semen that seeped down from her cunt.
And I need some clothes on. So does he
. Naked was good but also bad. Looking at his lean, muscular body was making her think all sorts of things she shouldn’t. While she wanted to blame it on the raging change in her hormones, at heart Izzy knew it was all about lust.

Being held close by Sinyn was something Izzy knew she could get very used to. And that’s why she fought against it. She wasn’t there for a relationship
. I’m here for…hmmm…what the hell am I here for? Surely I could have done this all via email?

“What are you doing?” Suddenly she was on her knees with Sinyn close at her back, dick prodding her ass as he nudged her legs apart with his knee. Izzy turned her head to look at him.

“I remembered how much you liked my hair on your skin as I took your from behind.” He pulled the leather thong from his hair.

Izzy gulped. “So you’re doing me a favor?

Sinyn smiled. “Oh yeah.” He slid one hand between her ass cheeks and fisted his dick with the other. “I want your stay in my home to be full and exciting.”

Izzy grabbed the wood of the headboard as once more his dick slid inside her cunt. She shoved her ass back in acceptance. There was no point saying she didn’t want this way. It would be a lie.

“We will need to talk.”

The bed head banged into the wall as Sinyn banged into her. It was no gentle fuck. It was meant to shake Izzy up and question what she wanted and needed.

“Oh, I’m marking you mine for life, sweetheart.” Sinyn’s mouth descended on her neck and bit her skin gently in a sucking love bite.

Izzy placed one hand on her clit and rubbed. There was no point fighting this. She wanted to come. Later, when they weren’t naked, she’d be rational. “Faster.”

“I thought you wanted to talk?”

“I want to feel you shooting up inside me.” There was something so primal about a man letting go inside a woman.

Sinyn groaned. “Aye, that’ll happen. Brace yourself, sweetheart.” Sinyn ramped up the pace of his thrusts. The sound of wood continuously hitting the wall would leave few illusions for anyone passing by.

Chapter Five

The knowing looks as they came back downstairs made Izzy blush and feel awkward. “Why are they all looking so happy?” She asked sotto voiced as people she had never seen before, who were possible the household staff, smiled at her.

“I told you. They all know about the baby and that we will marry.”

Izzy stiffened. “You told
everyone
?” It was his home and right to do so, but she had hoped to keep it quiet until they had worked out what they needed to.

“No. Old Katie predicted it. When it comes to babies on Inis Daire there are no secrets.” Sinyn chuckled at her look of bewilderment. “You can fight it all you like but what is meant to be will be.”

Old Doris Day philosophy didn’t appeal to Izzy. “I will be going home to Australia.”

“Of course you can visit. I love Cairns.”

Izzy stopped in her tracks and poked a finger into Sinyn’s chest. “Of course I can visit? You’re not a feudal war lord whose word is to be obeyed by one and all, and I’m no one’s possession.”

Sinyn caught her hand in his. “Sexually I have you. We both feel the power we have over each other when it comes to that. As for your heart? I will have that in time.”

Izzy pulled her hand away. Sinyn was the most gorgeous man she had ever seen and touched, but this was all too much for her. “This is madness. I came to tell you about the baby to do the right thing and make plans. I didn’t want my child growing up without a father like I did.”

Sinyn’s eyes softened on her. “Poor little Izzy. I will take care of you and provide all the love you have missed.”

“Love?”
Where the hell am I? It‘s like I’ve entered another dimension.
She wasn’t against falling in love, but in her mind, Izzy knew it didn’t happen that fast. “We had a one-night stand.”

“It was excellent. I often thought about it after I left Cairns. Memories of you made my dick hard for weeks.”

Izzy opened and closed her mouth several times as she thought about what to say. Visions of Sinyn’s hard dick and what she could do with it swamped her mind. “Um, well, yeah but the thing is it’s not a basis for a marriage.”

* * * *

Anthony Donnelly shook the woman’s hand and smiled even though inside he wanted to strangle her, then his cousin. “Pleased to meet you. We never thought Sinyn would marry.” He had been counting on it. That Sinyn at thirty-eight had finally found a wife was irritating. Anthony hoped Sinyn would just screw around as he was accustomed to and not find a wife. And a baby? Anthony knew then he had no hope of inheriting Inis Daire. It always went to the eldest Donnelly son. That was Sinyn. They were the last two Donnelly’s standing. Both their parents had long since died. It was a boating accident on the lake that had taken them from Inis Daire. After that it was only the two men who were left. Neither liked the other yet they were tied by blood.

It was Inis Daire law that if a Donnelly son reached the age of forty-five without an heir then it went to the next in line, which was Anthony. His wife Sharon had not yet produced a child. She hated kids. She had married Anthony for his money. He knew that and it was irrelevant to him. She was a body to impregnate and he made every attempt to get a child in her he could. When they married she was supposed to have been pregnant even though Old Katie declared it impossible. He soon found out the seer was right. He looked over the Australian woman. She wasn’t to his taste with her buxom body and average looks.
But, she is a threat and I need her gone.

****

The look in Sinyn’s cousin’s eyes made Izzy step back. He was not greeting her. He was assessing her in the way a predator looks at his victim. She took another step back and ran into the solid warmth of Sinyn. The strong, male hand that curled around her waist made her feel safe.

Everyone else had been nice. The household staff had been friendly and eager to please her. The home inside was as large and imposing as outside. It was furnished in elegant, no doubt expensive, furnishing that appeared to be of great age and value.

They did the rounds of the manor and finished at the stables. “Horses huh?” Izzy hadn’t been a horse loving teenage girl. They had always struck her as uncomfortable to ride and she couldn’t imagine any pleasure a horse got with someone perched on top of them.

“Yes, yes, I’m sure even the leprechauns ride horses.” When Sinyn laughed at her words, Izzy smiled. It was a great sound. “Your cousin—”

Wow, they make the men real fine on Inis Daire
. Though this man wasn’t as hot as Sinyn, he was certainly a man Izzy would look more than twice at and wonder about.

“Connor, meet my bride-to-be.”

“I’ve been looking forward to meeting you, Izzy.”

She could feel his eyes all over her. Once more she stepped back but for a different reason. There was a sexual tension in the room that crackled.

Sinyn chuckled. “Connor and I like to share women.”

Yes? No, really? Wow. What the hell do I say? I’m having enough trouble with one man.
“I don’t share.” Izzy wasn’t morally opposed to ménages. It was more like she had never had the opportunity to.

“Never wanted to?” Sinyn asked.

“Ah no, never thought about it.” How did that work? What went where? And then another thought hit her. Sinyn’s bisexual. That was not what she expected. Izzy was all for people loving who and how they wanted to, but it didn’t appeal to her.

“So how do you know you won’t share if you’ve never tried?” Connor asked.

“I – er…”
Crap, I don’t know.
Just looking at him made her want to try.

Sinyn smiled at her confusion. “Plenty of time to think about it.”

Connor nodded. “I’m not going anywhere, and it would be an honor.”

Whoa!
Izzy managed to mumble something that sounded like thanks and headed off with Sinyn.

“I’m neither gay nor bisexual, Izzy.”

“Not for one second did I think you were.” Okay, she had. But he didn’t need to know that. “So, you like to buddy fuck?”

Sinyn nodded. “It’s enjoyable to see a woman doubly pleased. If you want the opportunity to try it, then just ask. While you are my woman, I’ll do whatever I can to make you happy.”

My woman
. Walking into Inis Daire was like walking into a different world. “How would you feel about it, you know, hypothetically speaking if I did want to do it?”

“I’m an Aussie. Titles don’t do it for us.” In a culture where Jack was not only as good as his master but usually better, pretension just annoyed Australians.

“So why did you have sex with me?”

“I hadn’t planned to.” She had been horny and he had been gorgeous and there and world’s and bodies collided.

“Fate intervened.” Sinyn wrapped an arm around her shoulders and pulled her close to him. “Come let me show you a field of wildflowers.”