Page 55 of Sunshine & Ink

She’s lying there so beautifully in the moonlight, the heavy swell of her belly perfectly framed in that silvery light like an angel.

Fuck, I want her so badly.

“Sunni, I know you love me.”

I moved closer to her on the bed, smelling that intoxicating scent of her skin.

My cock was fuckingweepingdown my jeans at the smell and sight of her.

“You were the first man I fucked. That’s not love.”

There were shadows across her face and she raised herself on one elbow to glare at me, her eyes glittering in the darkness.

“Why are you still here?”

I kicked off my boots and put a knee on the bed, then extended an arm carefully below her breasts and dragged her body so it was flush against mine.

“You’re a goddamn liar, Sunni. It was love. Itislove. I love you.”

Her startled gasp was a fucking primal judgment on me.

“Stop—don’t—don’t say things like that to me.”

Her heartbeat was thrumming through her throat now, her hands down to my wrists to pry them off.

“Why shouldn’t I say what’s true?” I demanded harshly.

“How dare you say that to menow! Now that I’m engaged to another man. . .pregnant with his baby!”

My arm was still firmly around her breasts and the heavy weight made my cock so achey and lusty with need.

“Why would you want me now that I’m pregnant?” she said, almost breathlessly.

“I’ll always want you, Sunni. How far along are you?”

“6 months.”

Her heartbeat fluttered into my arms.

“We were nothing but physical,” she insisted, hands still trying to pry me off of her, but I didn’t want to let her go.

“It was more than physical. It was everything about you. Come back with me. If you don’t want to stay at the clubhouse, I will get you your own apartment. You and the baby can stay there. You’ll never have to worry about money or water again.”

“No,” Sunni said. “That’s not enough anymore.”

My cock was so goddamn hard it was fucking seeping through my pants.

“What do you goddamn want? It’s fucking torture being next to you like this. I’m offering you something I’ve never offered another woman before. A lifetime of security. An abundance of water. My care and protection even with another man’s child in your belly. What more could you possibly want?”

“Marriage, Raker. I don’t want to be yourwhore. I found a man who wants to marry me. Not keep me as one bitch in a rotation. And you can’t ever give me that.”

The realization burned in my gut.

“How the fuck am I supposed to marry you? The Elders would never approve that marriage.”

“You can’t. That’s why you just need to leave me alone. I have everything I want, without you.”

It was like a punch in the gut, a kick in the balls, but it only made me tighten my hold on her until she squeaked, my mouth descending ravenously to her flesh.

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