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Yet here I am suddenly wondering if such an ailment has come over me.
Grace would laugh me off the face of the earth.
Maybe not.
But she would for sure be worried and think something was wrong with me to be feeling such strong emotions for someone so fast. Feeling for someone I barely even know but somehow feel like I’ve known forever. And especially given my history, she’d be even more protective. And the fact I signed a clause that indicated this would most likely just be a one-night thing. What on earth am I thinking?
But this?
This.
It feels different. And I don’t even know how. Or why. But it’s different.
It is. I can feel it in my bones.
Stetson stares at me hungrily.
“You’re so sweet,” his voice is gruff and loaded with passion. “You taste like candy.”
I close my eyes and hide from that stare he’s giving me.
“Look at me,” he commands.
And I do.
Hell.
His mouth takes mine again, this time with more force and passion, like he’s a man who’s been starving forever.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
STETSON
Ican’t get enough of her.
I don’t think I’ll ever have a fill of her sweetness. She tastes so good. She feels so good. Everything about her pulls me in. The moment I set eyes on her on my yacht, I was sucked in. Just the same way I was yesterday.
Even more.
I was overcome with the need to have her.
Possess her body, mind and soul. I gave her the clause—I’ve only given two other women the clause to sign—and those women, I’d known for months. And I didn’t even bring them to the village because I knew I made a mistake once I had them sign. I never even told them my story.
But Charlie…
A woman I just met and barely know, despite seeing her childhood Christmas memories and getting some insight into her soul. I have her sign the agreement, bring her here and tell her more than I’ve ever told a member outside our family.
No. I don’t fucking understand it.
It makes absolutely no sense.
But hell, I don’t give a damn.
I want her the way I’ve never wanted anything else in my life. Her face, her smell… it pulls me in like something I could never even imagine.
If Jayson could hear my inner dialogue now, he’d call me a Hallmark card, hell,I’dmake fun of me. But I can’t help it.
I can’t help the overwhelming feeling I have to claim her.
