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Maybe because she thought that he could do better than her.

“I don’t think I’m good enough for you, Harvey.”

“No talking badly about yourself. I won’t allow it.”

She still didn’t understand how it was putting herself down when it was the truth. “I’m just being self-aware.”

“No, you’re being an idiot.”

She gasped in horror. “You can’t call me an idiot!”

“Hmm, that’s strange because I feel like I just did. You’re an idiot for saying things like that. Because if anyone doesn’t deserve someone, I don’t deserve you. I’m the one that kidnapped you, forced you to stay here, made you fall in love with me.”

She froze. Fall in love with him? She never said anything about being in love with him.

But aren’t you? Because would you really be considering staying here with him if you didn’t love him?

Shit. She really did love him, didn’t she?

And that was terrifying. What if she lost him? What if she gave him everything and he decided he no longer wanted her?

“Hey, it’s all right, because I love you too. Do you really think I’d just kidnap anyone? No.”

“I saw you, Lily. I wanted you. But then something happened. My need for you turned into something deeper, something stronger as I fell in love with you. And these last ten days, I just fell more and more in love with you. You might not be ready to say it or acknowledge it, but it’s there between us. So we deserve each other. Got me? And now I’m going to make you come, and you’ll come so hard that you’re going to scream the house down.”

Was he for real? But before she could say anything, he was kissing her, and every thought just left her brain in a large whoosh.

He kissed her until she was mush, until she could barely breathe, let alone move or speak.

Then he started kissing his way down her neck.

She was wearing one of his oversized T-shirts to bed. She preferred them to the pajamas in the wardrobe that he’d bought her.

They were comfortable, but not the sexiest things you could have worn.

“I should go get changed, or get ready, or do something,” she said.

“No, you shouldn’t. You should stay right where you are,” he told her as he moved his hand under the T-shirt to cup her breast. A shiver ran through her and he kissed her again until she was fully relaxed.

“You’re much better behaved after you’ve been kissed, aren’t you?”

Sheesh, she couldn’t believe he said that. Mind you, she felt like she thought that a lot about the things that he said.

“I’ll just have to keep kissing you so that you’ll keep doing as you’re told.”

Doing as she was told.

Jeez.

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“Maybe I’ll just have to do less of what I’m told,” she said to him teasingly as he lifted her T-shirt up so he could kiss his way along her stomach.

Wow. That felt crazy good.

“Ooh, yes, baby. Do that,” he told her. “Then I’ll get to spank you for being naughty.”

The man was obsessed with the idea of spanking her.