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“R-Reuben?”
“So fucking beautiful. Especially when you’re scared. But you don’t need to fear me.”
“You just threatened me.”
“I didn’t threaten you, that was a promise.”
“Oh God. That isn’t any better.”
“Isn’t it? How about this? I promise I will always come for you. I promise I will always stand between you and danger. And that when you break the rules, I will punish you. Because I promise to always keep you safe. Even from yourself.”
She stared up at him, her mouth open. “I can’t believe I find that so sweet.”
“I’m not sweet, Little Blossom. Never that. I’m just a man who knows what he wants. And what I want. I get. I keep. I protect.”
She just continued to stare up at him. He smiled at her gently. “Tonight won’t be easy for you, my baby. But you know you deserve what’s going to happen, don’t you?”
She shook her head. But it was okay if she felt the need to fight back. It could be hard to admit when you were in the wrong.
“You broke the rules.”
“I . . . I . . . how?”
“You ran out here without me. It’s dark, it’s late, and anyone could have hurt you. That put your safety at risk.”
She pressed her perfect teeth into her plump lip. God. He could feel himself growing harder.
“Time for a new rule, I think.”
“Reuben.”
He sent her a message on his phone. Yeah, he could have just told her, but he wanted all of these rules where she could see them.
He wanted her to know them inside and out. She drew her phone out of the small handbag hanging off her wrist.
Rule Five: Always run to me. Never away.
She sucked in a breath as she read the rule.
“It’s not one word this time.”
He shrugged. “No. This one needed to be longer.”
Steven drove the limo up to the curb and Reuben swept her into his arms, carrying her along the footpath.
“Wh-what are you doing?”
“Carrying you.”
“But you don’t have to. I can walk.”
“You don’t have any shoes on.”
“Oh, yeah.”
Steven opened the door without even a blink. Reuben slid into the limo with her on his lap. Then, he reluctantly set her down on her own seat.
Reaching over her, he buckled in her seatbelt. Then Steven pulled away from the curb.
