Page 69 of Ruthless Savage

I ache to tell her none of it is her fault. It’s all mine.

“Because you’re far too good for someone like me, Eriu. You have no idea the kind of past I’ve had. The kind of things that could hurt you.”

“Being a Quinn is already dangerous. What’s a little more?” Her eyes grow sad.

My palm falls to her nape, and I bring her to me until her forehead meets mine, until her breaths become my own, until her mouth is all I crave to consume.

“You don’t know how badly I want to kiss you right now.”

“Then kiss me,” she says. “Just this once. Because for as long as I live…” Her lips brush mine. “I will never love anyone the way I love you, so don’t you dare refuse me right now.”

Feck. I can’t kiss her. If I do, it won’t stop at that.

“Eriu…”

She registers the battle in my voice, and when she peers back, her face grows with anger. “Maybe I should ask my father for a different guard. Maybe this isn't something that we can do anymore.”

She fights back tears, and as soon as she tries to get out of the bed, my hand snaps around her wrist and I yank her soft body right on top of me.

“Mine,” I growl, an unexplainable possession taking hold. “You’re all mine, you hear me?”

She gasps, not understanding what the hell I’m doing. I’ve not got a clue either.

My fingers slide into her hair and my gaze bores into hers, devoured by her beauty, too consumed by it.

“Devlin…” She takes a shaky, shallow breath.

“Right here, love.” I grab her jaw, my eyes lingering on her full mouth before I smash my lips to hers, kissing away the shock on her face, needing this like I need air.

I hold her face in both hands, kissing her with beating passion and fiery longing. I kiss her like the world is about to end and all we have is the two of us.

My tongue sinks inside and rolls with hers, taking everything.

Tasting her, I get so bloody lost, I don’t know how to climb back out. My teeth bite and nibble her bottom lip, and the sounds she makes, so feminine and innocent, are tempting me to lose all my control.

My God, she makes me weak. I’m not used to that. But I wanna be.

I jerk my hips up, my cock stirring to life, growing hard and ready, but that can’t happen. I can’t just take her virginity.

I let myself taste her, make love to her mouth, and that’s all I’ll allow myself. She makes small little erotic sounds, and I flip her beneath me, rocking between her warm and willing thighs.

Before I can stop myself, I reach and yank her leggings down, lowering them around her upper thighs. This time, she’s gonna know who’s making her come.

She moans against my mouth, the sounds vibrating deliciously around my tongue. I pull back a drop to look at her and my soul comes undone.

“Please.” Her begging has my cock jerking. “I need this with you. You don’t know how badly after?—”

My eyes darken; I know what she wants to say. “After what?”

My hand edges up and fastens around her neck, the span of my large palm covering her delicate throat.

“After everything with…you know…everything?” She swallows nervously, her pulse slamming wildly against me.

“Hmm.” I palm her pussy with my free hand. “Forgot your panties, baby girl?”

As I massage it, she groans. “Oh my God.”

“You like walking around bare like that?” I nudge the column of her throat with my thumb.

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