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“Tawny,” he said hoarsely, falling onto her and burying his face in her neck. “Mine.”
They lay that way for long moments, perspiration drying on their skin. Eventually Gavin realized Tawny wasn’t moving and sat back. His heart dropped into his stomach. She was beautiful lying there in the soiled sheets, but she was covered in friction marks, her hair in a tangle, lips swollen, eyes dazed. Disoriented. Blood stained the sheets between herthighs.
Jesus. What had he done? Had he really held her down and encouraged her to struggle and play his dirty game…her very first time having sex? A girl’s first time was supposed to be special, but he’d tarnished it by being impatient. God, he was a fucking animal. Already his cock was swelling against his inner thigh, hungry for more of Tawny’s young cunt. No…no, he couldn’t touch her again so soon. Hell, he should never touch her again, but he was far too obsessed and in love to contemplate that.Mine. My fucking girl.Forever.
Ashamed that he hadn’t given her the perfect experience—disgusted with himself—Gavin lunged off the bed and pulled on his pants. “I need to get some air,” he muttered, unable to hide his longing as he stared at her on the bed.No. Don’t touch her. She needs to recover from your rough treatment.“I’ll beback.”
He left the cabin without a backwardglance.
Chapter Six
Tawny
Tawny stumbledaround the small cabin with a sob locked in her throat.He doesn’t love me. He regrets touching me.She was still wearing the schoolgirl outfit and didn’t care. She needed to get out of there now. Before Gavin came back and gave her some humiliating speech about her being too young. Or telling her they couldn’t be together. As she’d feared, he’d only lusted after her body. Why else would he leave without holdingher?
She needed him to hold her sobadly.
Finally, Tawny released the sob and jogged to the bathroom, running thumbs under her eyes to get rid of the raccoon circles. Refusing to waste any more time, she left the bathroom and eased out the front door of the cabin, glancing right and left to make sure Gavin wasn’t around. She didn’t see him. He was probably pacing somewhere, practicing how to let her down easy. God. She’d been so stupid to think they were meant for eachother.
Her heart twisted in her chest because it still believed that. It would believeforever.
Blinking back her tears, Tawny speed walked to the truck, cursing when she found the doors locked. Fine, she would just have to walk. There was no way she wasstaying.
Trepidation crept into her bloodstream as she started off down the road. She didn’t usually put herself in unsafe situations and this little jaunt marked the second time today she was endangering herself. Gavin was going to be so pissed. But not because he loved her. Only because of the vow he’d made to Tawny’s father. That’s all she’d ever been. A burden who’d proven too big a temptation. Now she would be hisregret.
Scalding tears were beginning to stream down her cheeks when she heard Gavin’s voice in the distance. Loud. Like an approaching gale. She walked faster down the tree-shrouded road, anger rising in herthroat.
“Tawny,” Gavin shouted in his sharp general’s tone. “Get back hereimmediately.”
She spun around. “Why? Whatfor?”
He stopped short, his handsome face paling. “Are you crying because ofme?”
“Of course I am, youasshole.”
A muscle slid up and down in his throat. “I’ll be gentler next time, baby. I’ll treat you how I should have treated you today.” To her astonishment, Gavin got on his knees in the middle of the road, imploring her with his eyes. “Don’t leave me. Don’t take my reason for living away because I’m an imperfect man. You…” He shook his head. “I never thought I’d get to be inside you. I thought I’d only ever get to dream about touching you, moving deep between your legs. That’s how I treated it. Like one of my fucked-up fantasies, baby, and I’m sorry. Give me another chance to do this right. Slow. However it makes you feel important, because that’s what you are. The most important thing in my world. You have been since the day wemet.”
Tawny couldn’t believe what she was hearing. Next time? Another chance? “You…” She brushed away a falling tear, and Gavin looked like he was dying. “You want to be with me? Forreal?”
“Yes,” he growled, coming to his feet. Approaching her. “I’m done pretending I haven’t been falling deeper and deeper in love with you every day for the last two years. You’re mine. You’re mine and I’ll make up for what happened today. I swear,I’ll—”
“I wouldn’t change a single thing about what we did today,” Tawny said on a watery laugh, her heart sprouting wings. “Gavin,” she blurted. “I love you, too. I feel like I’ve been in love with you my entirelife.”
He stumbled the remaining distance toward her, sweeping her up into his arms. “How did I get so lucky? That you could love an old dog likeme…”
“I do,” she whispered into his neck. “I love the protector, the general, the man…and I love my Daddy, too. And every bad thing he does tome.”
Tawny felt Gavin’s erection swell against her belly. Felt that heavy awareness creep over them both, their surroundings turning sharp, the pace of their breaths escalating. “I need to get you back to the cabin, little girl.” He tugged her skirt up and cupped her backside, his fingers slipping into the valley between her cheeks, pulling them apart. “I’ve been suppressing my appetite for you for a long time. It’s not going to stay in checkanymore.”
Shamelessly, she rubbed her lower body against him, smiling at the way his jaw dropped, a harsh groan escaping. “No, I don’t want to go back,” she said with as much of a pout as she could muster when she was so happy. “Not unless I get something Iwant.”
His eyes heated at the way she effortlessly slipped into the fantasy role—and he hadn’t seen anything yet. Now that she knew the direction of his needs, she couldn’t wait to find new and creative ways to be Daddy’s unwilling little girl. “Name it,” he husked. “I’ll give you whatever you want. As long as you’re letting me do the bad thing between yourlegs.”
Wetness rushed down, making her slick inside her intimate folds. “Anything I want?” She pretended to consider her options. “I want to sleep in the master bedroom from now on. And I want to go on dates again. Real dates when you hold myhand.”
Love shone in Gavin’s eyes. “All that andmore.”
“More?”
