A guttural sound ripped out of Cash.
“What the fuck are you trying to do to me?” he muttered at my ear. Big hands cinched down on my hips before he let his palms smooth over my bare bottom. “Did you plan this? Seducing me? Making me lose all control?”
Choked laughter rippled out. “The girls insisted.”
My friends.
Myfamily.
I could hardly believe it.
I couldn’t process the change that had taken place in a moment. The shift that had rewritten everything I thought I knew.
A low chuckle rumbled out of him, and he expelled a breath against the side of my neck. Shivers raced and the need glowed.
“They knew I could never resist you. Do you think they saw the fire inside me, Daisy? Do you think they saw right through me to the place that burns for you?”
His fingers glided up and down my spine.
“Cash.” I couldn’t help but beg it.
His hand glided up my back until he gripped a fist in my hair. He tugged my back against his chest, and his lips wisped over the shell of my ear. “Gonna please you, baby. In every way. Going to savor you first. Take it slow. Then I’m going to fuck you so hard there will never be any question of who you belong to.”
My knees knocked.
Was this really happening? Was it real?
“Get onourbed.”
Okay. Yes. I liked the sound of that, and I let go of a shaky exhalation as I peeled myself away from him.
My feet barely cooperated as I tried to balance on the ridiculous heels and sashayed my way toward it, putting extra swing into my hips as I went, praying I didn’t trip and fall flat on my face.
I climbed onto the mattress.
Cash groaned from where he remained in the middle of the room. “Fuck me. You have any idea, Daisy? Do you have any idea what seeing you like this does to me? So fucking pretty in all that satin and lace.”
A sigh whisked out, and I slowly shifted around so I was on my back, propped up on my elbows. My legs pressed together as he looked at me like I was the moon and the stars.
“It’s this, Cash. Being back in a secret room with you and seeing you this way. So beautiful standing over me.”
“That ring on your finger says this is no longer a secret. It’s going to tell every motherfucker out there that you’re mine. Mine to love. Mine to protect. Mine tohave.”
My chest arched for him, begging him to make it true.
He kicked out of his shoes and socks and worked through the button and zipper of his pants. He shucked them down, taking his underwear with them.
Cash stood there completely nude. Bare and so freaking beautiful there was no way for me to get the oxygen into my lungs.
He edged forward. The ground shook beneath his feet. The man a dark shroud as he came to stand over me. He reached out and caressed his fingertips from my chin all the way down to the fabric that covered between my trembling thighs.
“Sweet fuckin’ fire.” Cash ground it out, and he took me by an ankle and tugged off one heel then did the same to the other.
“Have half a mind to keep you dressed like this, but I need to see you. Completely bare and laid out for me.”
I nodded erratically, a moan getting loose as he tugged at the little snaps of my garters then began to slowly peel down the stockings.
He pressed his mouth to the skin it exposed, kissing a path down the inside of my leg. He shifted and did the same to the other.
