Page 137 of The Sinner's Bargain

I was so fucking in love with this woman it fucking hurt to breathe.

“Marry me, Naya.”

Her lips parted in surprise. “But you said...”

I balled my fists into the mattress to keep from shaking her. “I know what I said. If I were a stronger man, you’d already be a million miles from here. I wouldn’t be waking in the dead of night scared out of my fucking mind because I’m so fucking scared of losing you, I can’t think straight.” I stopped to catch my breath. To find my footing when everything kept crumbling around me. “But if you fucking die on me ... if you fucking leave me, baby, God help you because I will find you in the afterlife and I will put you over my knee and I will get us both thrown out of heaven.” Naya cracked a tiny smile shaky with the tears streaming down her temples into her hairline. “Fucking promise me. Fucking promise. Swear you won’t...”

I didn’t know what I was asking.

Not to die?

Not to leave me?

Both?

“I can’t leave,” she whispered. Her cool fingers touched my face. My lips. “I was going to. It was all I thought about after leaving the office earlier. I didn’t want to be here when you brought another woman home. I didn’t want to watch you with her. But...” she bit the corner of her lip and lowered her lashes. “The thought of never seeing you again...” Her eyes shone bright as fresh tears spilled. “I don’t have to promise, Thoran, because I can’t leave you.”

I kissed her.

I tasted her sweet mouth and her salty tears. I devoured her moan and the whisper of my name.

I bent her into me, into my chest and around my body as I moved to press her into the mattress. Her knees parted and I found my home between them.

“What do you say, love?” I panted into the skin of her face as I broke the kiss and moved across her jaw.

Naya gasped and arched her spine. Her head fell back against the pillow as I traveled my way south.

“About what?” she said, threading her fingers into my hair and holding me to her as I nipped on her pulse with my teeth.

“Marry me,” I repeated, running the tip of my tongue along the line of her collarbone and dipping into the hollow in the middle.

Naya sighed. “I have to think about it.”

I stilled.

My head jerked up to find her watching me with big, twinkling eyes.

Mine narrowed even as my lips threatened to twitch at her teasing. “Is that right?” I pressed my hard cock into her mound and rocked until her smile slipped and she gasped my name. “That’s unfortunate because the only person getting my cock in their pussy is the one who says yes.”

My little temptress bit her lip and peered at me through her thick lashes. “Maybe I need to be convinced.”

Fuck! This woman.

I bared my teeth in a grin. “Oh, with pleasure, sweetheart.” I twisted my hands into the satin neckline of her slip. With one, hard jerk, I tore it down the front, baring her perfect breasts. “By the time I’m finished with you, you’ll do anything I ask.”

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