Total pages in book: 86
Estimated words: 81040 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 405(@200wpm)___ 324(@250wpm)___ 270(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 81040 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 405(@200wpm)___ 324(@250wpm)___ 270(@300wpm)
“You’ll never know just how fucking dark I am. If you knew the shit I’ve done, that I do, you wouldn’t love me.”
I wrapped my hand around his arm. “You’re wrong.”
He closed his eyes. “What if I told you that I’ve tortured people for revenge?”
I was sure he’d done more than that. “They must have done something very bad.”
He laughed and pressed a kiss to my lips. “You love me, no matter what?”
I nodded. “Yes.”
“Fuck,” he groaned and pulled me into his lap and buried his head in my chest as I straddled him. “I’m possessive, dangerously so. Although I didn’t know that until you.”
I ran my hands over his head. “I’ve noticed.”
“If anyone touched you, I’d kill them,” he said, lifting his head to look at me.
I saw it in his eyes. Something I had wondered about. I had told him about his grandmother’s call, telling me Tabitha was dead. We hadn’t spoken any more about it, and oddly, no one had called me again to discuss it. But I still thought about it at times.
“If you want to tell me that you already have, don’t,” I whispered. “Because I think I’ve known for a while.”
He was quiet as his eyes stayed on mine.
“Huck?”
“Yeah?”
“Is that all you need to tell me? Just about all the murders you could possibly commit in the future if someone breathes in my direction? Trust me, I’m aware. I recently checked to see if there was an obituary or missing person post for Jonathon Kilgore.”
I already knew about Roy being a missing person. I didn’t say that though.
“Do you want there to be?” he asked me.
“NO! I absolutely do not!”
A slow grin spread across his face, and when Huck smiled, it made everything that had ever been wrong in my life okay. The past no longer mattered. Just this. Us.
“I’m so fucking in love with you that I can’t concentrate if I don’t know where you are and what the hell you’re doing. I’ve even wondered if love is a strong enough word for this shit you’ve done to me.”
I brushed his cheek with my thumb. “Yeah, that’s hot,” I told him.
His big hands grabbed my thighs and jerked me closer until our chests touched. The hard ridge of his erection pressed against my pussy, and I rocked against it just a little.
“Don’t. Not yet. I gotta finish,” he groaned.
“Okay.”
“I’ll never let you go. You’re not ready now, and I understand that. I’m not ready to share you yet anyway, but one day, I want to knock you up. I want you to be the mother of my kids. My life has dark shit that I will never let touch you, but I can’t live it without you.”
My eyes stung with unshed tears as I looked at him.
“I was gonna do this on one knee, but you went and pressed that sweet pussy on my dick. I’m sure as fuck not moving you.”
One knee …
I stopped breathing.
Huck took my left hand in his much larger one, then kissed my fingers. When the cool touch of metal brushed against my skin, my gaze dropped from his to the diamond ring he was sliding on my finger. It was a large princess cut white diamond with a twist of smaller diamonds. I stared at it, unable to believe what I was seeing.
“I want forever. I want you to have my last name. I want you.” Huck’s voice was thick with emotion.
I lifted my gaze to meet his. This beautiful, massive, possessive, dangerous man wanted to marry me. This wasn’t something I had ever allowed myself to fantasize about. He never spoke of marriage.
“Say something,” he whispered.
I looked back down at the ring. “Huck, I would have said yes to you with a ring from a gumball machine.”
A low, deep laugh vibrated his chest. “Damn, I could have saved a lot of money.”
I lifted my eyes to meet his and let the tears roll down my face.
His world scared me. This life wasn’t always going to be easy. But as long as I was loved by this man, I could face anything.