Page 54 of Marked By Him

I pulled her closer. “Am I fucking you in these thoughts?” I was always fucking her in mine.

She tilted her neck, giving me access to nip her with my teeth. “You’re a great leader, Roman. You’re strong and wise and you care about your people.”

I care about this. You. Making you come. Hearing you scream my name.

Her head straightened right as I was going to bite her. “But what if you’re wrong?”

And she still challenged me every chance she got.

I lifted my head. My hands dropped from her waist.

“I know what it’s like out there. I’ve seen that world. Lived in it my whole life. Humans, vampires, animals—they all have the same goal. They just want to survive. Out there, it’s about self-preservation, no matter the cost. In here, it’s different. I feel it.” She spun around to face me. “The world doesn’t need more survivors, Roman. It needs love.”

“What do you know about love?”

“I know it is patient. It is kind. It does not boast.” She smiled and batted her lashes at me, knowing exactly what she was doing by quoting the book.

We’d spent the last three months reading it together. Eve had a lot of questions, and I took my time answering them. She was part of my purpose now. She was part of my plan.

“That’s not what I meant.”Do you love me?

She took my face in her hands. “I know that it feels a lot like this—the way my heart beats your name, the flutter I get in the pit of my stomach when you look at me like you’re looking at me now, the way every single part of me throbs with need every time you’re close.”

I raised a brow. “Every part?”

“Every single part.”

I owned her body because I’d taken it.

But that wasn’t enough. I wanted her mind. Her heart. Her past. Her future.

“Even this?” I asked as I leaned my forehead against hers, indicating her mind.

She nodded.

“And this?” I brought my hand to her chest. My fingertips skimmed the bottom of her breast, indicating her heart.

She grinned wide. “Especially that.”

“Good. Because I want all of you.”

“Does this mean I’m going to the next ceremony? Will you claim me in front of everyone?”

“They know you’re mine.” I lowered my hand between her legs. “This is only for me.”

She tipped her head back on a gasp when my fingers slid inside the seam of her panties.

“That face. That little gasp—” I rolled a finger over her clit. “That right there is mine and mine alone.”

She took my other hand and flattened it over her stomach. Then she lowered her head and met my gaze. “This belongs to you, too.”

The world stopped.

Time stopped.

My hand froze. My heart that beat in perfect cadence with hers now thrashed wildly in my chest. Fears and memories crashed and collided in my mind. The air was so still you could have heard a pin drop in the next room.

I destroyed her.

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