Page 19 of Allegiance

“No, Dakota, I’m not. Not this version of me anyway. The real me is out there alone, and you’ve left her to raise a family alone.”

He immediately thought about Violet and how he’d been cold. If he could take it all back again, he would.

In a heartbeat.

The saying was wrong.

Misery didn’t love company. It loved to see a person alone and dying from heartache.

“I’m sorry,” he whispered.

She shrugged.

“Are you? I don’t think so. I think we need to face this and do battle. I’m willing to fight for you, Dakota. Are you willing to fight for us? A penitent man will win the woman of his dreams. Only a man who can apologize can get the family that he craves. You need to remember that when our paths cross.”

His heart raced.

They were going to find each other again?

Was that a possibility?

“I can’t fight anymore. I’m tired, Evie. I don’t know how much longer I can hold on.”

She stroked his erection, and it felt so real to him. It was just like the last time they had wild, out-of-control sex in the bunker storage room.

He’d pulled her in, and they’d rolled around.

God.

He was losing control.

“I think you can hold on a little longer, Dakota. I think you’re just too afraid of the outcome. Fight for me. Fight for what we made.”

He shook his head as she stroked his dick.

“You’ll die if I love you. You’ll be taken from me.”

She reassured him.

“No, I won’t. I’m indestructible. So many have tried, Dakota. Nothing breaks me. It only makes me stronger. You’re the only one who has ever broken me by telling me to go.”

“Evie…”

She took control.

Instead of arguing with him in this back-and-forth tit-for-tat, she went to her knees and began blowing him.

It felt so real.

The wetness.

The heat.

He watched as she worshipped his erection, and he couldn’t stop her.

Then again, he wasn’t sure that he would.

It felt too good.

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