He pressed his lips into a thin line. “I brought you here to show you who I am as a person. To prove you have nothing to worry about and to spend time with you.”

After he applied ointment and wrapped her hand with a bandage, he tied the ends of the gauze.

She used the same bandaged hand and raised it to his face, cupping his jaw. “Listen to me very carefully,” she whispered, her voice raw. “You might have had other plans for how today was supposed to go, but what I saw, what we did, I wouldn’t change for the world.”

She scooted closer to him and grabbed his hand. “We found that baby and she’ll be okay. Nothing can compare to a more wonderful moment.” She leaned in and kissed him softly. “I saw enough of who you are as a person out there. You care, you give to those who need, and more importantly, you were selfless.”

“Don’t make me out to be something I’m not.”

She smiled softly. “I don’t need to. You are everything I said and more. And I want to keep getting to know you, Sebastian. Nothing will change that.”

“I want you, Harper. For me. Forever.”

She brushed her lips over his again. This time, he brought her hand up to his chest and held it there. “I can’t promise you forever. I don’t know. I need to be free to make that decision and your rules don’t give me that freedom.”

His eyes glowed with the power of his animal. “Understand, I will do everything I can to change your mind until you are mine.”

She grinned. “All’s fair in love and war?”

He tugged her closer, pushing her long, wet curls away from her face. “Yes. Everything.”

He kissed her hard. A kiss of passion and hunger. A claiming of the lips she couldn’t fight. She sighed and melted into his touch. Her body heated instantly. His tongue dove into her mouth, staking a claim and owning her with a few swipes. She sensed his need just as much as she sensed her own. It was building inside her, growing by leaps and bounds and making her mind thirst for more.

She moaned when he moved away from her lips, his teeth grazing her jaw and nibbling down her throat. Her pussy went slick with need. She tugged at the tie around her waist, pulling the robe open and giving her naked upper body to his view.

“Christ, Harper. You’re so fucking beautiful.”

She smiled at how amazed he sounded. Men told her she was pretty all the time, but he stared at her as if she were a goddess. And for that moment, she felt as powerful as one.

“Do you want me, Sebastian?”

He growled. The sound made her pussy clench. It was a harsh, animalistic noise she shouldn’t find to be a turn on, but did.

“You know I do. I want every inch of you to be mine. I want to claim you and fuck you so hard, you’ll know you’re only mine,” he snarled, his licks on her chest growing longer and rougher.

She whimpered and pushed her breast into his mouth. The first suck on her nipple made her moan. Legs spread, she let him feast on her breasts while he pressed his fingers into her wet crotch and at her clit.

“You want to be inside me, Sebastian? Deep and hard and fucking me for hours, right?”

He nipped her breast and let her nipple go with a pop. “I’m going to fuck you, baby. That’s the difference between wanting and doing. I’m going to shove this,” he grabbed her hand and wrapped it around his massive erection, “deep and hard into your tight pussy. I’m going to feel your legs wrap around my hips and I’m going to make you come hard. So fucking hard, you won’t know your name.”

“God, yes. Keep going,” she moaned. “Tell me more.”

He pushed her back on the bed, kissing and licking his way to her belly. “After I make you come and fuck you until your knees buckle, I’m going to come inside you, baby girl. Long and deep and I’m going to make sure you’re so full of cum, you’ll be dripping for days.”

She shoved the robe off and leaned all the way back on the bed. “And how are you going to start it all off?”