I’m not going to lie; I contemplated just killing him and being done with it for the majority of the drive. That was why I brought us to a secluded spot. But, when he straight up asked me if I brought him there to kill him, and he looked at me with those fucking gorgeous brandy eyes—I knew I was fucked. I would never kill Ryan Fairview simply because I couldn’t own someone if they were fucking dead. He was mine. As much as he didn’t have a choice in it, neither did I. So, the only option here was to make it clear that he was officially off limits to anyone else. I’d started the conversation
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