Total pages in book: 71
Estimated words: 71179 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 356(@200wpm)___ 285(@250wpm)___ 237(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 71179 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 356(@200wpm)___ 285(@250wpm)___ 237(@300wpm)
God, if only that were possible…
He thrusts and thrusts and thrusts, and though I’m exhausted, and also hungry, and also completely drained, each time his pelvic bone hits my clit, a match is struck.
Ignition is started.
And when he thrusts deeply, something inside me implodes.
The climax is different this time, less intense, yet in a different way from before. It’s an emotional climax. And with that, I vow to never let another man touch me.
No matter what I have to do.
7
FALCON
I release everything into Savannah.
Everything I have to offer her. My fortune, my love, my life.
Because I would give up my life in a moment for her.
I stay deeply embedded inside her for a moment, relishing her tightness and my climax.
A moment later, I roll off of her, onto my side, so that I’m looking at her.
“Open your eyes, Savannah.”
She obeys me and rolls onto her side so we’re facing each other.
“Understand this,” I say, my voice as serious as I can get it. “You belong to me, and no other man. Tell me you understand.”
“Falcon, we’ve been through this.”
“Yes, and you said it. But you were in the heat of passion. I said what I did also in the heat of passion. But I want you to say it to me now, now that we’ve both climaxed. Tell me that you understand. That no other man will ever touch you.”
“That’s what I want more than anything,” she says.
“It’s what I want more than anything too, but that’s not what I said.”
“Falcon, I—”
“Tell me now, Savannah. You will not go running off to Miles McAllister thinking you’re making my life better. Because you won’t be. You won’t be making my life better if you’re with another man.”
“But if it means you don’t go to prison…”
“Savannah.”
“No, Falcon.” She flips over, turning her naked back to me. “You’re not being fair. I love you. I love you just as much as you love me. Believe that.”
I roll her back over so she’s facing me again. “I do believe that.”
“Then understand that I can’t have a life without you anymore than you can have one without me.”
“If you’re with Miles McAllister, what good does it do to keep me out of prison?”
“It makes your life better.”
“My life will never be better if I can’t have you.” I grip her arms firmly. “If I have to spend every moment thinking about you in someone else’s arms, in someone else’s bed. I’d rather be in prison than have that.”
She gulps then, audibly. “All right. I understand. But I can’t bear the thought of you back in that prison.”
“Trust me, Savannah, it’s not what I want either.” I take her face in my hands. “But do not give yourself to another man thinking you’re helping me. Because you’re not.”
She nods, and in her eyes I see the truth. She believes me.
“But Falcon,” she says, “they will not stop. The McAllisters will come back. They will search all over until they find me.”
“How can you possibly be that important to them?”
She bites her lip. “I wish I knew. Something’s going on that you and I don’t know about. And until we figure it out and put an end to it, they will not stop. They will not rest until I am married to Miles.”
“I don’t understand.”
“I know you don’t, Falcon. I don’t understand a lot of it myself, but I do know that they would not be pushing this if it weren’t necessary. At least necessary as far as they believe.”
“I can have Leif look into this. He’s a great PI. He investigates for the Wolfe family in New York.”
“No, Falcon. Please. It’s enough that he’s taking care of our dogs while we’re here. Please don’t ask him to do anything else. He and Kelly are still newlyweds. They need to have their time together.”
“There’s no one else I trust, Vannah.”
“What about your brothers?”
“I trust Hawk,” I say.
“Not Eagle?”
I shake my head vigorously. “Eagle’s a loaded pistol. I love him. But no, I do not trust him.”
“Hawk then.”
“Hawk isn’t a detective, Savannah. Leif is the best at what he does.”
“All right.”
I pause and scratch my chin. “Actually, there is someone else.”
“Who?”
“Lance at the tattoo shop. He’s a hacker. His skills are different from Leif’s, but he might be able to help.”
“Why not him then?”
“Because I don’t want anyone else to know we’re here. Why we’re here. What good does it do to be hiding in plain sight if you tell people you’re here?”
“Then I don’t know what to do,” she says. “You need someone who can find out what’s going on with my family and the McAllisters. Why they need Miles and me together.”
“It can’t be you,” I say.
“Funny that you say that, because I was just going to suggest me.”
“Yeah, that’s not happening.”
“It has to be someone who can get into my home, who can look through my dad’s documents.”