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“I love you, too,” I managed to reply through the aftershocks that still swept through me. “Forever.”
Marcus carried me to the bed and laid me down gently before he went to clean up. I was almost asleep when he came back and barely registered the dip of the mattress and the warmth of his body as I gave in to the call of slumber.
I woke up in the middle of the night, bolting upright in bed, and looked around wildly. I had no idea where I was, or what time it was.
“What’s wrong?” mumbled Marcus, reaching out to stroke my bare back.
“Where’s Rose?” I asked blearily.
“She’s in her room, with the nanny.”
I looked around me in confusion.
“And where am I?” I asked.
“You’re home, honey,” said Marcus, drawing me into his arms gently.
He spooned me as I settled back into bed, and the events of the day came rushing back into my mind.
Marcus was right, I decided, as I closed my eyes again. It would take some time for me to get used to living in his home, but I had to start sometime.
Because finally, I was home.
EPILOGUE
RUBY
Truth or dare!
I picked up the note on my dressing table.
I dare you to let me in, it said.
I knew what was going to happen if I let him in.
Luke Donovan, bad boy extraordinaire, was going to make love to me. Or in his own words, he was going to fuck me until I saw stars.
This was the culmination of a long game of truth or dare that Luke and I had been playing for years. It had begun when I had dared him to admit he was scared of spiders when we were ten years old. We had played the game through our teens - simple stuff like stealing a bottle of wine from his aunt’s wine cellar, or walking through a cemetery in the dead of night. But now, at the age of thirty, it had suddenly taken on a very dangerous turn.
Luke dared me to have sex with him.
The trouble was if I didn’t take the dare, I’d have to tell him the truth about why I didn’t want to do it. And I’d rather die than tell the man I had loved since I’d first set eyes on him that I was afraid he’d break my heart.
Because everyone knew that Luke Donovan never slept with the same woman twice.
I knew that if I gave in and had sex with him tonight, I would lose him forever. This wasn’t Arabian Nights. I couldn’t force him to stay with me by telling him a new story every night, although as a librarian if anyone had a lifetime of stories in them, it was me.
But I also knew that I might never get this chance again.
I could hear him breathing on the other side of my door, waiting patiently.
I knew he’d never give me forever, but he could give me the best sex of my life right now.
Was it enough, though?
