Surrender To Me (Wolf Hotel, #4)

by Nina West

“Never in a million years did I expect to fall in love with that virgin farm girl from Greenbank, Pennsylvania, in the interview video.”

“I’m in love with you, Abigail Mitchell.” My eyes brim with tears as I commit this moment—his words, the sound of his voice, the look in his eyes—to memory. “I love you, too. So much, it hurts.”

“I knew even then that I didn’t have a hope in hell of resisting you, even though I convinced myself otherwise. You’d already won me over. And you keep winning me over, night after night. So, yeah. I’m sure that those fools who are betting against us are nothing but fools.”

“I’m going to give you the world, Abigail Mitchell.” You already have, I feel like saying. “I don’t need the world, Henry. I just need you.”

“And when you look at me like that....” His gaze skates over my face. “You are the gift that I didn’t realize I wanted. That I needed. I love you, Abbi.”

“How do you get me like no one else gets me?” he asks softly. “How do you know what I need like no one else does, like even I don’t? I can read you inside out and yet you surprise me constantly. How do you do that?” He looks genuinely baffled.

“Why?” With a finger under my chin, he lifts my face to meet his gaze. He stares down at me with such intensity. “Because I trust you like I’ve never trusted anyone else. Because you’re in my thoughts constantly. Because when I was stuck in that mine, getting back to you was the only thing I thought of. Because you know what things—even the most simple things like birthday cakes in a woodstove—will make me happy.” He leans down to press his forehead against mine. “Ever since you stepped into my life, you’ve been in it, for every second of every day. Marry me, Abbi. Let me love you in every way I know how to.”