Page 5 of Ferocious Nightmare

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"What?"Aster reared back in surprise, her satisfaction disappearing as quickly as it’d come, and there was something very gratifying in that. Her lips twisted in confusion. “Then how are we going to produce this heir you're talking about?”

You don’t know how?” Giving her a cold smile, I sucked her cream from my fingers, loving the taste of this woman I now despised. "It's called IVF. People do it all the time."

Her expression changed from confusion to darkness in an instant, and the fiery redhead came to life.

"If you think for a moment that I'm going to give you a baby and not expect sex, you're insane."

I couldn't help my grin. I loved it when she was angry like that. “You saying you're dying for a good fuck?”

I also loved to mock her.

"I'm saying," she grabbed my tie, jerking me so that we were face to face, “if you want to put a baby in this belly, you'd better be ready to have sex with me. Because I won't submit to IVF, unless there is no other way.”

I leaned in, biting on her lower lip and pulling it into my mouth. "You should've told me how badly you wanted my cock; I may have given it to you sooner."

"It's not about that, Coulter," she growled, twisting her fingers, cinching my tie, "it's about us having a relationship. A real marriage."

"I told you, you can come any time you want, but I don't trust you." Grabbing her hand, I put pressure onto her fingers, forcing her to let me go. "From here on out, everything between us will be on paper only."

I turned to leave, ready to call Dante in to take her back to my house.

"No."

I stilled, my back to her. "What did you say?"

"No." Her voice was calm, all emotion gone now. "I won't do it."

I swiveled towards her again. “Excuse me?”

"I will marry you, and even do the IVF treatments, on one condition only.”

I ticked an eyebrow upwards, happy she was falling in line so easily. "And what is that? Whatever it is, I'm sure it can be arranged.”

"I want my freedom."

"Never," I growled.

"I've told you that I would do everything, you can put it in writing if you want, but if I'm going to be engaged to you, then I want access to anything I need or want. I need outside of the bedroom, I want a plot of land to garden, access to a car, and a credit card. I won't be caged in your bedroom like some captive."

I stared at her angrily. Is that all it took to make her agree to a loveless life with me? Access to my money?

Disappointment coiled around my chest.

I really had thought she would be different.

That she would fight for more.

"Fine. As long as Dante goes with you when you go out, you can have whatever your pretty little princess heart desires.”

"I'm not finished."

I smirked. "What else, darling? Your own yacht? Access to the plane?"

“My own room.”

“No. You will continue to use mine.”

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