Page 123 of Tame Me

‘I got it so long ago,’ he mutters with a gruff laugh. ‘I wanted to give it to you the night of that play we never saw, but I knew you had a thing about things.’

‘A what?’

He looks at me ruefully. ‘I figured you’d think I was trying to buy your favour or something.’

Back then maybe I would have thought he was trying to buy my favour. But now I know better. Because I want to do things for him and give things to him. Everything. And I know he wants to do the same for me. I understand his motivation and I believe in him wholly.

‘The“or something”is that you love me.’ I take the jewels from him. ‘Just as I love you.’

I drape the heavy diamond choker across my throat. ‘Fasten it for me?’

But he fumbles. Swears. Abandons the attempt and lets the treasure slip to the floor beside us.

Because he devours me. BecauseI’mhis treasure. Just as he’s mine. We’re everything and all to each other.

For ever.

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