Page 39 of His Wild Attraction

Desire roared to life like a hungry beast, gnawing at my insides.

Fuck, I need this woman.

She was mine now, and that meant every single part of her was mine, too.

Her steps slowed as she turned to face me, and I froze, watching her like a wolf eyed his next meal.

All of Manhattan glittered behind her like a billion dollar backdrop, but my gaze was riveted to my bride.

“So, what now?” she whispered the question.

Ellie held me captive with her golden green eyes riveted to mine.

All my attention was on her, for her, and that was dangerous.

For both of us.

I'd seen men obsessed with their women. And it wasn't always pretty.

Take the dangerous men I worked for.

I knew the things they’d done to keep their wives. And I knew the things I was willing to do for mine.

That was my fate now.

I was not just a man trying to leave his mark on the world. Not some poor kid from Hoboken looking to make bank. I was a husband. A father. Protector.

And a lover.

“Now, we make this legal,” I replied, lifting my hand to flash the platinum band I would never take off.

“Now we make this legal,” she repeated.

Ellie licked her lips. Her chest rose and fell rapidly with her increased breathing.

Why so nervous, Lupina?

She wasn’t afraid of me. I knew she wasn’t. We’d been together intimately once before.

I knew she knew I wouldn’t hurt her.

No, her reticence was from something else. A sliver of self-doubt, perhaps. Or a memory of something her fucking prick of an ex said or did.

Fury filled me for an instant, but I pushed it away.

That prick would get what was coming to him. And I’d be the one to deliver it.

But those dark thoughts were for another time.

I took off my jacket and pulled on my bow tie, loosening it. Ellie followed suit, kicking off her low heels.

“Can you?” she asked, turning away from me, and offering me a view of the dozens of tiny buttons down her back.

“Yeah,” I whispered, and squeezed my hands together to stop them from shaking.

I was smoother than that, for fuck’s sake.

My heart was pounding as I worked those buttons free, revealing her smooth, soft, pale skin as I went.

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