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Chapter Nineteen
“Love conquers all; let us too yield to love.”
—Viking Runes
The cabin she bought on a whim on a remote hill overlooking a tranquil lake was isolated between the town and the mountains, hidden by rich forests.
She’d acquired it seven years ago after seeing an ad by accident, dirt cheap, and spent all her savings on the spot.
Since then, she came to these lands twice every year, whenever she had leave. Except the most recent two years when she’d been busy with her new business—setting up her tattoo parlor with five of her closest childhood friends.
They called the shopValkyries.
In all the times she visited, she’d never seen this man before. She would have noticed immediately if she had. He was the most magnificent male she’d ever met.
She wasn’t shy about asking for what she wanted, but taking a stranger on the back of her remodeled Harley Davidson FXSTB Night Train to her secret getaway in the middle of nowhere was definitely new.
She hadn’t given him her name; nor had she asked for his. In fact, he hadn’t said one word to her before following her out of the bar and swinging his long leg over the seat of her bike like he owned it. While giving her that brooding look to hurry up and hop on in front of him.
Whowasthis man?
She wasn’t the sort to indulge in one-night stands. She had rules and standards. But one look at this hunk of raw masculinity and she was a goner.
And somehow, she simply knew he wasn’t a rapist or a serial killer. She had a sixth sense about people, good and bad. Though she could more than handle herself, having spent ten years of her life deployed all around the world with the marines, and having achieved elite level in several forms of martial arts.
There was just something about him…
First, that scene she came upon, with the blonde and the redhead—déjà vu.
It made her seethe with a primitive possessiveness that roaredMINEas soon as she took two steps into the bar. When she said she’d break the woman’s wrist for touching him, she’d been dead serious. And that was before she’d even gotten a good look at him.
Then, when she did connect her eyes with his…
It was game over.
Done.
This was it. Everything she’d been waiting for her whole life, without even knowing it.
Every boy she dismissed because he didn’t have the right walk. Every man she couldn’t commit to because he didn’t have those mesmerizing, spellbinding firestorm eyes.
They seared straight into her soul. Ignited long-buried memories. Brought ghosts back to life—
Because sheknewhim.
Somehow, she recognized this stranger. More profoundly than people she’d known her entire life.
And she wanted him then and there.
He washers.
She knew, without the shadow of a doubt, that she’d never let him go now that she finally found him.
After a brisk ride across rocky terrain under an inky black sky and peekaboo stars, she rolled to a stop in the gravel driveway of her cabin.
She shut off the engine and took a deep breath. Perhaps the first real breath she’d taken since clapping eyes on him.
His arms were strong around her waist; his body, hard and hot at her back. It felt as if he’d always held her like this. Protective and possessive. As if he’d done this a thousand times, riding behind her, wrapped around her body.
