Her blue eyes watered, tears filling them. I knew she was working through a lot of emotions, I knew she was healing, and I also knew I just claimed her in a very exposed way not even an hour ago. I told her she deserved a patient man, a gentle man, and I wasn’t that kind of man. That changed the second I was inside her. She was mine, and I was hers. She’d been mine for months. I was in too deep to turn back now, and this journey to her heart was going to be a long one.
