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“You never said what they were planning. You just said Jason was going after the woman he loved,” Ally murmured.
“Believe me, you don’t want to know,” Travis told her emphatically, immediately changing the subject. “Tell me what happened with the house.”
Ally explained what had happened, that she’d spoken to the police twice, and the house was a total loss. “I don’t think it will really sink in until I see it,” she finished sadly. “And I’ll need to find a place to live. I can’t believe I’m currently homeless.”
“You’re going to be living with me,” Travis growled, his protective instincts sharp and nearly painful.
“I appreciate you giving me a place to stay for a while, but I’ll find something as quickly as I can,” she assured him gratefully.
Fuck! The woman was going to drive him insane. “Permanently, Ally. No finding another place.”
Travis watched as she worried her lower lip, the dark smudges from her mascara still under her eyes. She was silent for a moment, the longest damn minute that Travis had ever endured before she replied, “I’m not sure I can do that, Travis.”
He exploded. “The hell you can’t. Why not?”
“Because I’m in love with you,” she replied breathlessly. “I didn’t mean for it to happen, but I love you. When I realized just a short time ago that if not for your warning, I would have been dead, all I could think about was that I would have regretted not telling you that. So I have to say it. But I also know how I felt when that beautiful brunette won the auction, and I knew you wanted her too when you hugged her. Just seeing you with another woman like that destroyed me. I know who she is now because Tate explained, but I realized that with you it has to be all or nothing for me. I love you so much it hurts,” she ended on a sob.
Travis grasped both sides of her head and covered her mouth with his, kissing her roughly, his tongue taking possession of hers, melding them together as his head spun from her confession.She fucking loved him. He couldn’t wrap his mind around that, and he didn’t want to. Right now he wanted to brand her as his, let her know that they were never going to end. Finally, he pulled his mouth from hers and rasped, “Do you think I don’t feel the same fucking way you do, Ally? I can’t believe you thought for even a second that I could or would betray you. You can feel what I feel. I know you do. Do you really think I’d ever let you go? You’re marrying me, and then I’ll show you every damn day how lucky I feel to have you as mine.” He moved his hands to her ass in a proprietary manner, desperately needing to bury his aching cock inside her. “I’m not sure love even explains how I feel. Dammit…I love you, but it’s more than that. I knew four years ago, from the minute you walked into my office and looked at me with those damn gorgeous green eyes of yours, that I was completely screwed, and not in a good way. So put me out of my misery after years of hell. Tell me you’re going to marry me,” he rasped, one of his hands slipping into her sexy panties, his fingers immediately drenched.
Ally moaned softly and answered, “But we haven’t even talked about marriage yet,” she protested weakly.
“Say it,” Travis demanded in a husky voice, needing to hear her finally say she’d be with him forever. If she didn’t, he was going to lose it. He teased her clit, putting more pressure on the bundle of nerves. “Say it now.”
“Travis.” His named left her lips with a sigh. “I love you.”
Okay…he loved that, and he wanted to keep hearing her say it, but he wanted more. “Say you’ll marry me.” His patience at an end, he grasped the panties and tore them from her body, shoving them hastily into his pocket, as he pushed her back against the wall of the building, a dark, secluded corner where they wouldn’t be seen.
“Travis, we can’t do this here,” Ally protested weakly. “And yes, I’ll marry you. I love you.”
Ah…both of the things he wanted to hear at once. Adrenaline pumped through him, his body and mind on such an ecstatic high that he never wanted to descend. There was no way he wasn’t going to bury his cock inside her right now. He teased her clit a little harder, stroking the slick flesh between her thighs to make her even hotter as he liberated his cock from his pants. “Right now, Ally. I want to bury my cock inside you so deep that you can’t think about anything but me fucking you and making you come.”
“God, yes,” she moaned. “Fuck me, Travis.”
Shit. He loved hearing those words coming from her lips when his name was attached to them. He grasped her ass and pinned her to the wall as he lifted her. “Wrap your legs around my waist.”
She obeyed immediately, fisting her hands into his hair as she said in a lusty, sultry voice, “You’re mine, Travis.”
Travis impaled her with one thrust of his cock, biting back a groan, loving the way she claimed him. Her possessiveness heated his blood, made his own proprietary emotions even more frenzied. There was nothing he wanted more than for her to feel secure enough, fierce enough to lay claim to him. “Tell me you love me,” he demanded, wanting to hear those words all the time now that she’d said them.
“I love you. Now fuck me,” she ordered, wrapping her arms securely around his shoulders.
Travis lost it, unable to keep himself from thrusting deep and hard inside her over and over again, the dark beast inside him taking control.
Need her to be mine. Need her to be mine.
“Tell me you’ll stay with me forever,” he commanded as he drove his cock into her deeper, harder, faster.
“Yes. Forever,” she answered ferociously as her body started to quiver, her channel clamping down on his cock.
Travis could feel her climax tearing through her body, her channel pulsating over his pummeling cock. He grasped her ass harder, bringing her hips up to meet every stroke of his cock.
And then, she bit him, her teeth sinking into the flesh of his shoulder, which he knew was to keep herself from screaming. But the feel of her erotic marking made him detonate, and he moved his head and captured her mouth with his, both of them groaning into the kiss as they shuddered together, their muffled sounds of satisfaction mingling as their bodies were sated.
Releasing Ally’s mouth so she could breathe, Travis buried his face in her hair as she rested her head on his shoulder, both of them gasping for breath. He lowered her feet to the ground, pulling her short skirt back around her thighs and fixing his trousers quickly before reaching for her again, keeping her locked against him.
“My wish came true,” he told her in a hoarse voice.
“What wish?” Ally asked curiously, still slightly breathless.