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“I swear. I saw you with Alana, and it hurt me. I wanted to hurt you back. I asked him to leave with me, but we went our separate ways once we got outside.”
He leans his forehead against mine, exhaling a deep breath. “I thought you let him. . . have you. It killed me.”
“Like I said, I only kissed him to get back at you.”
“And I hated every second of it. God, I wanted to rip his tongue out. The thought of him and you. I couldn’t take it. It drove me mad. And then you wouldn’t answer your phone. . .”
I quickly pull away from him. “What do you mean you couldn’t take it? What did you do?” He doesn’t answer me. “Theo—”
“Nothing. But I wanted to demote him, then give him a salary cut—”
“Theo!”
“What did you expect? He crossed the line. He never should have kissed you.”
“Imade him kiss me.”
He grabs my ass and digs his nails into my skin. “I will always fight for what’s mine.”
“Theo, you can’t just mess with someone’s job like that! He didn’t do anything wrong.”
He drags his nose up my neck until the warmth of his breath hits my ear. “Then you have no idea what lengths I’d go to to have you, keep you, cherish you and only you.” He grips my earlobe between his teeth. “I can’t control myself when it comes to you.” My hips jerk, and I moan when he thrusts forward into me. “And that’s never going to change.”
He secures me in his arms and stands, walking us down the hall. He walks us into his bedroom and lays me on his soft sheets. “If that’s too much for you, you need to let me know now. Because I’ll always be crazy in love with you.” He pulls back and enters me with force. “Protective.” Again. “And unbearably possessive. That’s what you do to me.” His hand scoops under my butt to fuck me deeper.
“Theo. . .” I moan his name, pleading, and arch my back off the bed.
“Tell me that’s what you want.”
My heart beats violently against his. These confessions and promises. . . I feel so vulnerable. “I love you, too,” I hum against his lips. “I want all of you. The good, the bad. I even want your unbearable asshole side. God, I must be crazy. I love you—” He cuts my words short, stealing my breath in the most beautiful kiss.
We come together, moaning each other’s name.
It’s well into the night before we wave the white flag. I rest my head on his chest and wrap my leg over his. Our bodies are spent. We’re both exhausted, but the weight of the future keeps us awake. “Theo?” I know he’s nowhere near sleep. His arm wraps around my waist, and he pulls me into him.
“Yeah?”
“So, what happens now?”
“What do you mean?”
I lift my head. “What do we do? About us? And your father.”
He grazes his fingers through my hair. “I’ll set up a meeting with my father and Charles in the morning to present my findings. Give them their ultimatums.”
He makes it sounds so simple. “And if it doesn’t go well?”
He leans up and presses his lips to mine, kissing me briefly. “Then we fight back. I don’t plan on backing down.” He takes control, flipping us. His thick legs hold me in place as his lips drag up my chin to take my mouth in a fervent kiss. When he lets us up for air, his hand drags up my neck and locks into my hair. “I won’t let anything happen to you. I’ll kill him with my bare hands before he has a chance to harm you—”
“Theo—”
“I’m promising you. You’re mine. And no one fucks with what’s mine.”
My chest tightens. This promise is romantic yet scary. We’re not in some fairytale. This is real life. “Theo, I don’t want you to do anything you can’t come back from. If things go bad, don’t risk your life for—”
“I’ll risk everything.”
“Theo—” He cuts me off with his mouth. “Please. . .” His lips suck in my bottom lip. “This will be for nothing if you’re taken away from me in the end.”
