Page 83 of Sweet Sin

He pauses a moment, until, “Nothing. I just mean I won’t do it.”

I haven’t known Falcon long, but I instinctively know when to stop pushing.

“Whatever else you want,” he says. “If it doesn’t include punishment, I’ll do it. A cup of tea. A glass of water. A back rub. A foot rub. A quick hard fuck. A slow soft fuck. Whatever, Savannah. I’ll do it. But I will not punish you under any circumstances.”

“But you just said—”

“A couple can enjoy spanking without it being a punishment. Many couples enjoy it.”

“So you’re saying you don’t want to tie me up?”

He closes his eyes a moment, and a visible shudder passes through him. “I’m saying that whatever you and I choose to do mutually will not involve me punishing you. There are things I’ve done, things I had to do for my own survival, that I’ll never do again, Savannah. Not while I’m a free man.”

“Not even for me?”

He shakes his head. “Especially not for you.”

I’ve already fallen hard, and in that moment, I fall completely.

I tumble into a rabbit hole from which there is no escape.

I’m in love with Falcon Bellamy.

And I don’t want to escape.

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FALCON

I pull Savannah to me and kiss her.

Gently at first, but she melts into the kiss and deepens it…and then…

I’m lost.

I kiss her hard. I kiss her fast. I kiss her with all the pent-up passion inside me. All the pent-up anger at the world.

And I understand.

I understand her request for me to hurt her.

I understand more than she knows.

The screams are more than I can bear sometimes at night. I saved Tommy Ortiz, and I’ve saved a few others over the years from a single beating or rape. But I can’t save them all.

It’s impossible.

Savage can only do so much.

Sometimes the screams wake me from a nightmare of drowning in an ocean of acid, the caustic liquid burning my skin, my eyes, my soul.

When I awake, I gasp for air to the sounds of men being violated, emasculated in the worst way.

I curl my fists in rage, chills skittering up my spine as the fire of anger surges within me.

Must do something.

Must do anything.

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