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Words were more effective than bullets. Bullets killed quickly. Words buried deep in your consciousness and would hold you hostage forever.
“I’m going to end on that sweet clit of yours,” he swore, and my mouth dropped open, instantly going as dry as the Sahara. “I’m going to suck her so fucking hard your orgasm will brand you from the inside out. It will ink into your nerves a kind of pleasure that will never be erased—the kind of pleasure that will turn you to fucking stars.”
“I’m going to tattoo your little hungry clit with my teeth,” he growled, taking another bite into my skin. “I’m going to suck you so hard my lips will be branded inside your pussy.”
“It’s everything, Keira. If I fuck you, I want more than just the trust it takes for you to give me your body. I want you to trust me with it all,” he explained through clenched teeth. “Your past. Your secrets. Your fears. Every fucking thing because that’s the kind of man I am—the kind of man I’ve always been. I won’t settle for parts of you, and that is a big fucking deal.”
“I’ve lived enough lies, Archer, to know what is the truth,” I told him breathlessly. “And the truth is, past, present, or future, I will always regret every chance I give up to be with you.”
I didn’t blame him for not surviving. If that was the only way to see her every night, I’d pin myself to the night sky, too.
“I just want to be able to tell her she’s safe.” My voice was low, hardly recognizable. “Sometimes, Archer, it’s more important to know you have someone to face the unknown with, no matter what that is, than to have all the answers.”
She wasn’t the one who’d been claimed in that doorway, I realized. I was. Utterly and completely claimed by her.
“Baby, you never have to ask a man to protect the woman he loves, it’s just what we do,” he declared.
“I’m saying that there will always be something to run from in life, baby,” he rasped softly. “But I want to be the thing that makes you stay and fight. I want to be the hope that makes you stand against the odds.”
