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To all the good girls with fire in their bones, who drift into fantasies of being a queen by day and a slut by night. This one’s for you. Burn, girl. Burn.
Her eyes are still fixed on mine, like she’s a prisoner to our connection and can’t turn away.
I know the feeling, Little Storm. No need to fight it.
I’m not one to settle. If I can’t have the blaze I desire, I’d rather celebrate a life of ashes than fool myself into believing the warmth of an ember is enough.
“Look at that. You talk like a brat, but you jumped right up to do as I ordered. Good girl, Ivy. You’ll do just fine.”
His eyes light, voracious excitement swirling inside them.
Gavin Wells might not be the hero of my story, but he may be my dark knight.
That kiss was unexpected. Unexpected in the way she melted against my lips, opening her mouth to accept everything I offered, which was, admittedly, more than I’d planned on giving. But she gripped me as though I were feeding her an antidote to a poison and she needed to swallow every drop. And her flavor.
She’s a vision, which I knew. Upon my first glimpse of her out here, so breathtakingly beautiful and facing this whole situation with such fierce bravery, I felt myself unraveling.
Married to me or not, even in our care, Ivanna Kingston is the most wanted woman in the world.
I’m not the man who gets fucked up from a girl.
Except I am. I’ve been changing the damn rules ever since I laid eyes on her nearly five years ago.
And I knew i...
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“Anyone can be the light when the sun is shining. It takes a goddamn force to strike with a crash so bright that even the outlines of the raging clouds are illuminated.”
“Liam, I love you like a brother, but if you value your life, you’d be wise to keep your fucking hands off my wife.”
“It was vital that I waited until you knew what you wanted. There has never been anything mixed about how I feel for you. Only challenging situations. But you need to understand what this means. Once you give yourself to me, Ivy, there’s no
“I don’t usually repeat myself, but for the sake of clarity, this is it. You’re mine now. Every part of you. You’ve been mine from the start, but now, you know it too. Understand?”
“Don’t test me. Someone touches you, they don’t disappear or lose a finger; they lose their life.”
“And what about you? Do I get to kill any woman who touches you?”
“I would expect nothing less, but that will never happen. There’s only you, Little Storm. Always.”
“I was waiting.”
“You, Little Storm. I was waiting for you.”
I surrender all that I am. There’s no going back. Forever and always, I’ll belong to Gavin Wells.
She’s fucking perfect. Worth every agonizing second I waited.
And I don’t give a fuck that I don’t deserve her. She’s absolutely exquisite and completely mine. Better than any fantasy I’ve ever had of her.
“I knew you’d feel like this—made for me. You’re so fucking perfect, Ivy. My brat, my storm, my good girl.”
“You’re no one’s passenger, Ivy. You’re the destination.”
“You changed everything, Ivanna. Turned it all upside down. The moment I saw you, I knew I was lost to whatever path you carved for me.”
“Tell me you know there is nothing more important to me than you. No matter what else happens, I need you to know that.”
“I know I’m your greatest priority,” I assure him. “My gut shouts it. It’s what scared me, the way I feel about you.
“Was this … you and me … was any of it real?”
“Yes, Ivanna. Every moment between us has been real.”
“How can I trust that when you’ve been hiding everything from me? When I’m a job? Why would I believe you?”
“Because I’m in love with you. So in love that you make me lose my goddamn mind. I don’t even know when it first happened, but I know you feel it. You know my ...
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“How much was I worth to you?”
“Don’t think of it like that. You’re priceless to me, Ivy. My whole world. You know that.”
“You’d been under my skin for years, Ives, since the beginning. Although you were so young then, but you still got to me—an obsession in ways. I thought day and night about how to make this all easier on you, how to keep you safe. I watched you thrive in college, saw how strong you were, how you were the light in every goddamn room you walked into, and I dreamed about how maybe, one day, you’d be mine. But, Jesus, you’re more than I ever imagined, baby.”
“There was a guy in college who hurt me. He—”
“Yes,” he avows, no faltering. “I killed that fucking rapist. And I won’t hesitate to kill anyone who dares to touch you or even thinks about harming you.”
“I’m in love with you, too, and I hate you for it,” I confess wearily. “I’m such a fool.”
“I love you so fucking much, Little Storm.”
love you too, Chief.”
Granting my girl her greatest fantasies so she knows without a doubt that she’s mine. My pretty little slut. My good girl. My fucking queen.
“You’ll never lose me. Family means everything to me, and you are my family in every sense of the word. I don’t give up on someone because they have a moment of temporary insanity, so you’re stuck with me. Forever.”
Liam insisted I’d changed them, but maybe the real story is how much they all changed me.
No matter how cold my blood runs, the warmth of those days will be a haunting.
Gavin Wells isn’t my hero or my villain. He’s my ghost.
Within these walls, I am traveling an epic journey, mining a piece of my soul that I never knew was missing—all because of the love of one astounding man, whose heart is the shooting star I caught, and the comfort of a family of men who offered the net to catch it. I am forever yours, Gavin Wells. Thank you for this life.
“No moment before you was living. You, Little Storm, are my life, the light striking through the darkness, as close to Heaven as I’ll ever get.”
Fuck, I’m so in love with this woman. There’s nothing I wouldn’t do for her. She’s … everything. All that matters.
