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“If it comes to that, I’ll….” She chewed her bottom lip. Right then she loved Sebastian enough to do whatever it took to prevent him getting hurt. But who knew what further truths she would find out about the man who had lied to her from the start of their relationship.
She rose from the bed to go check out the mansion, but before she reached the door, it opened. There in the entry stood her husband. She stumbled back a few steps, and in an instant her breath grew ragged.
“Sebastian, I told you I want my own room.”
He shut the door and strode toward her. The bed lay at her back. There was nowhere else to go unless she ran around it. This wasn’t the time to look like a cowardly fool. Not to mention his saying her fear stirred them up.
Totally not human, but is he pretending to look this good? Is this magic or a trick of the eye that makes me think he’s a man?
Sebastian reached her and extended a hand to her waist. He drew her close, and the strength to resist abandoned her. She could do nothing but fall against his chest. An ache she could only describe as a craving came over her.
It’s not real.
“I love you, Sophia.”
She sagged into him. He’d always displayed incredible strength. On their wedding night, he had raised her into his arms to carry her to this very bed like she wasn’t the chunky thing she knew herself to be.
“You always say that. You throw around love like it doesn’t mean anything.”
“It means everything.”
How in the hairy hell was she supposed to combat a man who told her daily that he loved her? This wasn’t fair. She searched her mind for a solution, something to put distance between them—if not physically t
hen emotionally.
“Your men don’t like me, and don’t lie and say they do because I don’t have to smell it to know it. They don’t.”
He shook his head. “No more lies. They’ll come around.”
“What if they don’t?”
“They will.”
“You make it sound like you’ll force them to like me, and I’m pretty sure you can’t do that. I mean an order can only go so far.”
His expression softened. Her heartbeat accelerated. “You are beautiful and sexy and intelligent. What’s not to like?”
“I’m mouthy, stubborn, and independent.”
He chuckled. “Perfect.”
“Sebastian.”
“Baby, you have to give it time.”
Time, he said. If she gave it too much time, she might be lulled into accepting all this, and she couldn’t let that happen. “Sebastian, you said no more lies, right? So tell me. Do you feel like humans are inferior to your kind?”
One side of his nose curved upward like the question turned him off, but he seemed to consider how he would answer. The very fact that he had to think about it let her know Jack was probably right. She’d hoped Jack’s aversion to shifters was the reason he thought what he did about them. No such luck.
“We are more enhanced,” he said with caution. “That doesn’t mean your people have no value or that you aren’t important to me. You in particular, Sophia.”
She glared at him. “In other words, yes.”
“I don’t want to argue with you. Can you accept that I will always protect you and love you? I will give my life for you without a second thought.”
“But if it wasn’t about me. If it was a choice between a little human girl and a grown shifter, whose life would you save?”
“Sophia, that’s not fair.”
