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Damaged souls have their own beauty. A dark, terrifying beauty.
He does fucking own me. He’s polluted my mind so that I can only ever think of him. Only ever want him.
“I want them to see that ye’re mine,”
He isn’t at all sweet. But if I wanted sugar, I’d eat a fucking cupcake.
“Nobody else gets to see you like that,” he declares. “Ye’re claimed.”
His words douse me in gasoline. His eyes light the match. And when he grinds himself against me, all that’s left to do is burn for him.
“She’s got you wrapped around her little paws,” I tell him.
“I’m not going anywhere,” he says. “Because I love you, Sasha.”
“I love you too, Ronan. I think I always have.”
This man resting on my lap is my whole world. My whole life. The sun rises and sets with him.
But it’s Ronan. My Ronan.
My troubled, strong, proud man. The man I love beyond all reason. Beyond all limits.
But when I’m here in his arms, and he’s alive, and looking at me the way he is right now, all is right with the world.
“Aye.” I nod. “So find us a baby.”
But he told me once, in a sleepy murmur, that his home is here with me. Wherever I am that’s where he’ll be too.
“Would ye have me as your husband?”
“I don’t know how I ever had the good fortune to find you.”
I just caught the boss and the underboss of the Irish mob blushing over a baby.
Ronan is my life. My breath. My sole reason for existing sometimes.
“That isn’t possible, Sasha. Ye’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever had the good fortune of seeing. That isn’t going to change. No matter how many babies I put inside of you.”
I know it’s going to be a boy anyhow. It has to be. Because I haven’t a bloody clue what to do with a girl.
He kisses my face and nuzzles into my neck. His words are quiet and soft and betraying a rare emotion when he whispers into my ear. “Thank you, love.”
“My anam cara,” we both repeat together.
They are the same words carved into our wedding rings in Ogham script. The words that mean, quite simply, his soul is mated to mine.
My life, my love, my breath. May we always have each other, in this life and the next.
Ronan and I will fight to protect what we have.
And God help anyone who ever tries to take that away.
