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His dark brow winged up. “Brothers. Trig and Colt,” he clarified. “About us? Yes.”
I set my hands on my hips, ready to light into him now that he admitted it. At least he didn’t lie. “You got their permission to what… date me? This is the twenty-first century. I can speak for myself!”
He looked left and right down the hall, took hold of my bicep and tugged me into his room, letting the door shut behind him. I spun around and faced him again. The blinds were open so the room was bright. It was humid from his shower and it smelled like him, something spicy and basic soap.
“I didn’t ask their permission for anything,” he said, taking a step toward me. “I told them you were mine. I had breakfast with them to make it clear to Trig, your oldest brother, and Colt, the one who carries a gun on his hip, how it’s gonna be. I didn’t ask. I told.”
I flung my hands in the air. “There’s no difference! You didn’t have to go to them at all. They don’t seek me out when they want to fuck a woman.”
His gaze narrowed and he took a step closer. I stepped back and swallowed hard at the look on his face. The one that said I was in for a spanking. “I want to fuck you. No question. You can’t miss how much with me only in a towel.”
Of course, that made me look down and see the way the towel was tented because… holy shit. He was big if it lifted the terrycloth that much.
“If that’s all I wanted with you, you’d be walkin’ funny right now with a sappy grin on your face from all the orgasms I’d wring from you, but I’d also be outta here, in a different fucking state. I wouldn’t have talked to your brothers at all. When I say you’re mine, I mean you’re gonna be Mrs. Beau Rivers. Ring on your finger. Baby in your belly.”
I had nothing to say in response to that because… what? He wanted tomarryme? Ababy?My vagina gave a quick, hard clench at his possessiveness.
No one, and I meantno one,had ever spoken to me like that before.
“I’m not sneaking around behind your family’s back like we’re doing something wrong,” he added. “You’re mine. I’ll keep saying it until you believe it.”
I circled back to safer territory where I could hold my anger around me like a shield. “It’s not their business.”
He took another step forward, I took another back. “What goes on between us? No, and I told them that. What we do is between you and me. No one else. But I told them my intentions. I’ve known Trig for a long time and my friendship with him means he deserves to know that while you’ve got eight brothers watching out for you, you’re my responsibility now.”
My eyes bugged out. “I’m yourresponsibility?That’s not a relationship. That’s having a pet.”
The corner of his mouth turned up, making his goatee twitch. “Oh, I wouldn’t mind you on all fours, love. Panting, too.”
“Beau…”
“There’s something between us, love. I’ve never felt like this before. You feel it, too?”
What I felt was overwhelmed. Maybe even a little scared. I felt like coming to his hotel room, I’d walked into a trap. That I was caught now, and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be saved.
He was right. My heart was beating hard, my palms damp. My panties, too. I felt the attraction between us. That kiss the night before hadn’t been enough. And obviously there was something completely wrong with me since he’d spanked me and I wanted him to do it again.
Being alone in a hotel room with any other man, who was naked except for a towel, I would have been weirded out. For the first time in my life, I truly felt desire.
I craved his mouth again. The taste of him. The hard feel of him pressed into me.
I wanted to feel desired. Craved.
Safe.
“I feel it, too,” I whispered, admitting that I wasn’t in control of this. I couldn’t contain my emotions when it came to him.
“You don’t have to fight it, love. Or us. I’m not your brothers. I’m your man.”
I swallowed again, gave him a little nod.
That little head bob of consent was all it took. He stepped into me, cupped my face and kissed me, walking us backward until my legs bumped the side of the bed.
Then, I fell. Not only onto the bed, but into whatever this was between me and Beau.
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