Total pages in book: 230
Estimated words: 217798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1089(@200wpm)___ 871(@250wpm)___ 726(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 217798 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 1089(@200wpm)___ 871(@250wpm)___ 726(@300wpm)
I’m putting on the smile I use for company when Francisco stops.
My husband takes my face in both his hands, careful not to disturb the makeup. He’s exactly as beautiful as he was the first day I saw him, seated across the boardroom table. More beautiful. He’ll never be a soft man, but his sharpest edges have been eased by intimacy. I know the love and devotion that burns beneath that hard expression.
“Stay as long as you want. Ten minutes or three hours. If you want to disappear upstairs to stare at our adorable creation, you can. Or bring her down here in a sling, if you want.”
I grant him a small smile. “You’re giving me permission because I’m anxious?”
“Because you are the smartest, strongest, most powerful woman I’ve ever known. You can do as you please. There is no one who can tell you what to do.” A glint appears in his dark eyes. “Except when we’re back in bed, tonight. Then you’re mine to do with as I please.”
My breathing speeds up. “And what about you? When will you be mine?”
He leans down to brush his lips against mine. “Do you need to ask, my dear wife? I already belong to you. I have since the first moment I saw you. Torture me. Please me. Do with me what you will, because I’m utterly, irrevocably yours.”