Page 34 of Her Dangerous Groom

I need her.

He had thought he was created to live alone.

I need her, dammit.

And destined to die alone.

I need her like I've never needed anything..

But the moment he had tasted her lips, everything had changed, and he knew then and there—-

I will always need her.

Things would never be the same again.

And every second he spent with her afterward only convinced him all the more of this.

The feel of her in his arms.

The sound of his name on her lips.

The sight of her under him as she yielded her innocence to his—-

I need you, Gazelle.

Every fiber of his being ached with the need to tell her the truth.

But fear like he had never known before had held him back.

And so all Lorenzo had been able to do was claim her again and again.

Pleasure her until she was begging for him to stop.

Fill her up until there was no longer any part of her that didn't bear his scent.

It was the only way.

The only safe way he could think of.

The only way he could tell her what was inside his heart was without saying the words.

I need you.

I need you, wife.

I need you forever.

And when morning came the next day, it was these words that he thought of first.

I need my wife.

And it terrified the hell out of him.

Because his whole life, he thought he had been damned.

And that it was his punishment to live and die alone.

So why, God?

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