Page 77 of Poison Evidence

She pressed her mouth to his. “Then we won’t let them take you prisoner.”

He buried his face in her neck. “It’s not that simple. My love is poison, and that’s all it can ever be.”

“Please, Dimitri. I want a baby. I wantyourbaby. I want someone to love when all this is over. I want a piece of you to live on, for you to be a father.”

Dimitri could barely breathe. She was offering him the one thing he’d never dreamed he’d have. Which he still wouldn’t have. He’d be gone, and his child—if she conceived—would grow up fatherless.

And ah, fuck, if he gave her this, he’d have to try to live. He couldn’t give up when he had a son or daughter who needed him.

He closed his eyes and imagined Ivy pregnant with his baby, and a wave of possessiveness unlike anything he’d ever felt washed through him.

His baby. His Ivy.His.

All at once, he loved this child who didn’t exist. It wasn’t even an embryo, yet his body lit at the prospect. His primal core, his hard wiring, drove him to touch her, to slide his hand beneath her panties and stroke her clit. Biology told him to take her offering, fulfill a natural predisposition to reproduce. But his heart…that was where he lost the battle. His heart wanted to stake his claim by planting a child within her.

It was primal. Raw. Fierce. A perfect mirror for how he felt about her. He wasn’t lying when he said he was falling in love with her. He’d slipped over that edge days ago.

Now she was offering him the only form of immortality available to humans. And, oh God, it was embarrassing how he wanted it. Proof he was human after all.

“Make love to me, Dimitri,” she whispered. “Give me a piece of you.”

His voice was hoarse as he said, “No one can know the baby is mine. If you get pregnant, that’s the one thing you can’t tellanyone, not unless you’re certain I’m dead. As in you’ve seen my body with your own eyes,dead.”

“No one will know.”

He thrust his pelvis against hers. “If we do this, it won’t be sweet. It won’t be tender. It will be hot and animal. A fuck to end all fucks. I’ve never had sex without a condom before, and honey, I’m going to enjoy this in all its primal glory.”

He kissed her then, holding nothing back. As promised, his kiss was hard and primal. He owned her mouth as he would own her body. “You’re mine, Ivy. You’ll always be mine.”

She nodded. “Yours. Always yours.”

He explored her body methodically with his mouth. Enjoying every shape and texture. “Just so you know, when I was in the Coast Guard, we were tested regularly for STDs. I haven’t been with anyone but you since my last test. I’m clean.”

“You’re perfect,” she said in a husky voice as she slid her hand across his abs, under his briefs, and stroked his erection. “I was tested multiple times, months apart after I learned about the cheating. I’m clean too.”

He pulled her T-shirt over her head and licked her breasts. “These tits are mine.”

She laughed. “Yours.”

He reached to the side and found the power strip for the lights and flicked it on. “Dark won’t do. I’m going to see all of you.”

She was gorgeous, splayed beneath him. He sat up and moved to her side so she could spread her thighs and he could play. He stroked her clit, then slipped two fingers inside her vagina. “God, but you are beautiful. Don’t ever listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. They’re either blind or they have an agenda. You’re strong and tall, and you have these gorgeous curves.” He stroked her hip, his hand trailing upward to cup her breast.

He leaned down and whispered in her ear, “And when I’m done with you, you’re going to need to buy some serious hardware, because you won’t be able toimagineever fucking another man.”

She panted out a laugh as he stroked her clit.

He nibbled at her lips, then slipped his tongue in her mouth, a tease, not letting her suck on his tongue. “Your mouth ismine.”

“Yours,” she repeated. “And I want to taste you.”

He scooted up on the bed and slipped his dick into her mouth. She took him, and he groaned with the sensation. He pulled out, but she sucked him back in.

Why had he wasted days when he could have been making love with her? Stranded on a deserted island in the tropics with the most amazing, sexiest woman he’d ever met, and he’d spent his days and nightsworking?

He pulled out of her mouth, then settled between her thighs. “Let’s do this, then.”

She gripped his shoulders and pressed up against his cock. He positioned the tip at her vagina. Unsheathed. What a glorious thing. He paused to look, to watch so he could enjoy the moment with all his senses.

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