Total pages in book: 36
Estimated words: 33504 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 168(@200wpm)___ 134(@250wpm)___ 112(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 33504 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 168(@200wpm)___ 134(@250wpm)___ 112(@300wpm)
There could be no more mistakes. No chance for error.
He had to get Astrid to fall in love with him, because he was completely and absolutely besotted with her. He didn’t know why he said the shit he did to Blake. It was all bullshit. Astrid was never a convenience.
He’d fucked up big time, and now he was paying the price.
Chapter Ten
Astrid let out a giggle, followed by a scream as Lord came after her. She didn’t know how they ended up chasing each other around the house, naked, but that was exactly what they were doing.
She didn’t know if she was somehow winning, or he was letting her win, as she zoomed in and out of each room. The moment she hit the sitting room, she had a sneaking suspicion Lord had been letting her win, as he was able to suddenly capture her around the waist and land them on the rug in front of the roaring fire.
Lord had insisted on going out in the freezing cold and getting the logs. It was magical.
Just as they hit the floor, Lord captured her lips, and it was an intense, searing kiss that went straight to her soul.
Astrid didn’t quite know what came over her, but she hitched her leg over Lord’s hip and quickly pulled him down so that she was straddling him.
Lord let out a laugh. “You don’t think I’m going to fight you, do you?”
He placed his hands on the ground, as if in surrender. “I’m yours, and I’m at your mercy.”
She ran her hands down his chest. She had no idea where this confidence had come from, just that she felt like she could touch him.
He’s mine.
Those words kept whispering in her head, like a damn mantra. Even as she tried to fight them, so she could make sense of her feelings, because this was ... Lord—the man who had called her a convenience. The very same man she had been in love with most of her life, and the reason she was so damn upset when he didn’t feel the same way about her. She was so confused.
The last twenty-four hours had been a whirlwind. The sex, incredible, and she had hoped in the cold morning daylight, when she woke up, her sanity would return. It didn’t.
Her sanity was very much in place. And along with it, this yearning that wasn’t going away. She wanted to hate herself, but being with Lord without any of the ranchers close by, felt so good.
She knew there were risks. They were having sex without protection. Each time they did, she promised herself it would be the last. Then that pesky little voice inside her head kept on ringing.
He’s mine.
She didn’t want to ignore that voice. If Lord was hers, she wanted to keep him all to herself.
Leaning down, she kissed him and felt his hands on her thighs as they started to caress her legs and then grip her hips. She let out a moan, and she loved when he growled, which was exactly what he did now. The noise he made went straight to her cunt, heightening her need for him, making her hotter, and he wasn’t even inside her yet.
In fact, Lord had been licking at her pussy every chance he could get, and now she felt it was time for her to return the favor. She had not licked or sucked his cock.
Breaking from kissing his lips, this time she trailed her lips down his neck, following the path, going toward that pulse at the side, and she slid her tongue right across the tender pulse. She was pretty sure she heard him suddenly inhale, but wasn’t sure if she just imagined it.
Down she glided, going toward his nipples, and seeing as he liked to spend a little time at her nipples, she couldn’t help but reciprocate the pleasure. She kissed his nipples, each in turn, and then went back to suck just a little, and for good measure just to bite down. He let out another little growl, and she loved that sound so much.
She didn’t bite down too much, just enough to make him gasp, and then she soothed out that pain with her tongue, dancing it back and forth across his nipples.
Astrid felt the pulse of his cock, and she moved off straddling his waist, and she kissed down his stomach, taking her time. Putting her hands at his hips, she looked up, and his eyes were closed, but she saw him lick his lips. Now, as she got closer, she pulled back just a little, and then glanced down at his thick cock.
He was thick, rock-hard, and she slid her tongue across the thick, pulsing vein. She still hadn’t touched him, trying to create as much sensation as possible, to build up the pleasure, in the hope of driving him wild with need.