Total pages in book: 149
Estimated words: 141255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 706(@200wpm)___ 565(@250wpm)___ 471(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 141255 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 706(@200wpm)___ 565(@250wpm)___ 471(@300wpm)
“Listen,” I got up onto an elbow and touched his face, “Do you not look in the mirror and see all that is you? Do you not see that you could never ever be a consolation prize to any girl? I won’t forget what I’ve been through whether I’m here with you or totally alone. It’ll always be with me. We have to look like we’re together so that they don’t think you’re a threat. So just take me. I’m yours. Won’t that make it easier? Then you’re not pretending. You’re just going about your life. You’re just doing what anyone else who had a Kruna slave would do. Instead of adding me to the list of complications, just go about your life. I won’t complicate it. I’ll enjoy every minute I have being yours as a gift because it is one. You’ll be giving me a beautiful gift, Dare. And you’ve already done so much for me I hate to ask you for a thing and I don’t want you keeping me out of obligation and robbing yourself of being happy and being with someone who you choose to be with instead of feeling obligated to keep someone you’re stuck with. I’m asking you to try not to feel guilty about what we just did. It was beautiful. Just keep me for now, maybe? I’ll work hard to be everything you need and I won’t try to make you feel bad later if you don’t want me anymore.”
“Baby…” he said but let that hang.
“When the day comes that you decide we can safely part, I’ll deal. I won’t go all stalker crazy on you because I’ve been trained to behave and I will behave. I won’t ever do anything to make you regret rescuing me. And I won’t expect you to be mine back. If you want someone else, you do what you want. I’m yours and only yours for as long as you decide but you won’t be expected to be faithful to me. You’re in charge. If you want me, I’m here. I will have no expectations.” Wow, that was a lot. It must’ve sounded rehearsed to him, like I was trying to sell him something.
“Naw,” he touched my face. “If I’m with you, I’m only with you.”
I breathed deep and choked up. I shouldn’t have done that. It revealed too much.
“See, already you feel deep and I could fuck that up.” He ran his fingers through my hair.
“How?” I leaned into his wrist. I kept revealing too much with him.
“Am I always gonna wonder if you really want out?” His eyes roved over my face.
I shrugged. “I don’t know.”
“Are you gonna want out?” he asked.
“I don’t know. Don’t know any more than you don’t know if you’re gonna want out. When people decide to be together, they don’t know if it’s forever. They only know they wanna see where it goes. I’d love to see where this could go.”
He smiled. “That answer is a good sign. A very fuckin’ good sign.”
“Maybe my head isn’t as fucked up as we think.” I shrugged. But it probably was.
We were quiet for a minute, cuddling.
“What do you wanna do tonight?” he asked, tucking hair behind my ear.
“Me?” God, he was sweet.
“Yeah, you. You’ve had your first outing since Thailand, shopping and the restaurant. You wanna go out tonight or you wanna stay in?”
“I wanna stay in,” I answered.
“What do you wanna do ‘in’ tonight?” Dare caressed my cheek with his thumb.
“I wanna please you, Master,” I said, “And maybe if I’m a very good girl, after I do, we can eat some more of that spaghetti here in bed while we watch the hockey game?”
His eyes lit up and his hands slid up from my hips to my shoulders and then he pinned me to the bed. “Angel,” he breathed almost right against my lips. “I’m not your Master. But is it twisted that I’m totally okay with pretending in this bed that I am?”
“I’m not sure I’m the best judge here but I’m gonna say no. Not twisted at all.” I grinned.
He smiled big and then he moaned into my mouth as his tongue dipped in.
I spread my legs wide, arched my back and absorbed the feeling of his cock stretching me. “I’ve gotta add, too, if you were to choose to be my Master, I have a feeling you’d be very good at it.”
Two hours later we’d had sex two more times. He had stamina. Gorgeous and generously amazing in bed. Rough, biting, gripping, dominant, taking what he wanted, not treating me like a piece of porcelain that would break, and giving me orgasm after orgasm. And he was a badass from a powerful family who could protect me. There was a long list of pluses for me to want him, no minuses whatsoever. Sadly, there were mostly minuses on his list of reasons for keeping me. The only pluses were endless sex and keeping the Kruna bosses oblivious. I wished that I could give him more than those reasons to keep me.