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“Does this have anything to do with what happened tonight?” I shook my head.

“No, I want a big family. I always have. I’ll still finish school. I’m not giving it up or the clinic, but I wanted you to know that…well…I didn’t renew my pill.” Tightening my arms around his neck, I kissed his lips and thought it was adorable that I’d managed to stun him. It was rare to shock the unshakable Titus Mikhailov. “I love you and I never want anyone else. I don’t want to wait to start a family, and I don’t care if we’re married or not.”

“You really want this,” he said, his eyes searching my face.

I smiled. “Yes, I do. You never thought about it?”

“Of course, I have but…”

“If you don’t want to, then we don’t have to.” I hadn’t even given that possibility a thought, but it was a very real one, and suddenly I was worried.

Titus grabbed my hands, lifted them over his neck, then pinned them against the wall. I moaned as he thrust into me, bottoming out, and sending a ripple of pleasure through my body. Dropping his mouth to my neck, he nipped and sucked at the delicate spot just under my ear that had shivers racing down my spine.

“There is nothing in this world that I crave more than to have a family with you,” Titus growled in my ear. My body convulsed with his words alone. My eyes rolled back into my head as he picked up the pace, fucking me hard with every stroke. “God…just the thought of you pregnant with our child…we may never leave the house again.”

“Yes…oh god, yes…,” I yelled as he drove into me.

I’d finally ripped away the last of his self-control. I fed on the feel of him and the desperation that was part of every thrust. He felt incredible, and it wasn’t long before an orgasm rose as fast as the night tide.

“That’s it…come on me again. Scream my name,” Titus said against my neck. The gravelly sound traveled through my body. The orgasm hit so fast that it had me arching against him with my mouth hanging open. “Oh fuck, you’re so tight…I can’t hold back.”

I was still riding the aftershocks and had turned to putty in his hands as his movements became erratic, muscles tightening.

“Titus…yes, come in me. I want to feel you…fuck,” I moaned, as the smaller climaxes continued to rock me.

“Fawn,” Titus roared as he came.

His face was wild, like he was caught between extreme pleasure and pain as his cock jerked inside of me.

We stood there, panting, the water mixing with sweat as our bodies shook from the effort.

Titus kissed me as he released my hands and grabbed my ass once more. We stood there staring into each other’s eyes, the only sound was our breathing and the running water.

“I love you, Fawn,” Titus said, breaking the silence. His voice was ragged and so full of emotion that tears of joy filled my eyes. “You’re mine. I’m claiming you as you claimed my heart the day you came into my life.”

I smiled even as a fresh wave of tears fell and blurred my vision. “I love you, too. I always have and I always will,” I said.

With those words, something inside me finally settled. The shattered pieces of my heart shifted, slowly knitting back together in the warmth of his love.

Maybe we didn’t make sense on paper. Two people born worlds apart, but together…we fit like jagged puzzle pieces, locking into place. Each of us was the edge the other had been missing.

Chapter

Forty-Nine

TITUS

I’d only ever been here once before and had hoped never to return. Nathaniel had crafted this prison for when he went hunting, but it felt like a tiny piece of hell had sprouted up on earth. I would’ve preferred to stay in bed with Fawn and make love to her all day, but this needed to be handled. Sooner rather than later.

Nathaniel had nicknamed it The Triangle because once you went inside as a prisoner, you disappeared forever. Naji pulled the SUV up to the front doors of what looked like a beautiful beach home in one of the ritziest parts of Cali. It had an immaculate view of the water, was situated on a large piece of land, and surrounded by trees, tall fences, and the best technology money could buy. Not to mention, he kept enough men here to fend off any invasion.

Naji hopped out and opened the back door for me. I took a moment to look around. It didn’t matter how beautiful it was. There was an essence that lingered on the breeze, like the violence and death never fully left this place when the bodies did.

Nathaniel greeted me with a single nod. Silently, I walked beside him into a room straight out of the Pentagon. The heavily armed guards opened doors until Nathaniel had to scan a random finger and his eyes.

“You’ve added extra features since the last time I was here,” I said as the thick steel door slowly opened.

“You can never be too careful, with those locked up or those who want them back,” Nathaniel said, his tone almost lazy.