I turn to him and touch his jaw. “I love you very much.”
“Say you’ll marry me, angel. Then Ben can stop asking you out. Hemming asshole.”
Laughing, I clasp his neck. Calder lifts me in his arms and I wrap my legs tight around his waist.
His nostrils flare and he grips my hips as he slowly glides his cock inside me. “Is that a yes?”
When he’s as deep as he can go, I gasp and flex around him, moaning.
Calder sets me against the shower wall and thrusts deep, his voice turning rough when I dig my fingers into his skin and mewl my pleasure. “I’m not hearing the right word, angel.”
I lean my head back and let my body answer for me, moaning through a long wave of satisfaction as my orgasm takes over. I shudder and tremble through the tremors of happy bliss.
Calder’s breathing rushes against my neck and he drives into me as if he can’t get close enough. His shoulders bunching, his chest crushes mine as he roars through his own release.
We’re both panting and I shiver as the warm water pounding down on us suddenly turns cold. Calder grunts and sets me down to quickly shut off the spray.
I laugh softly unable to keep my hands off his body while he rubs my skin and hair with a warm towel. When he’s done and takes the towel to himself, tousling his hair into a wild array of spiky sexiness, I press a soft kiss to his lips.
“Is that your answer?” he says impatiently, then drops the towel to scoop me in his arms and carry me over to the bed.
“Hold that thought.” I quickly wiggle out of his hold before he can lay me down. Walking over to my purse, I retrieve the raven leather necklace from a zipper compartment inside.
I smile and start back toward him, but pause when I’m a foot away and stare down at the leather collar in my hand. Rubbing my thumb across the teeth marks along one side, I turn glistening eyes to his. “This is the band from your hat from the party, isn’t it?”
Calder nods and pulls me close. “I told you I found the perfect material for the choker.” Taking the necklace, he hooks it around my neck, then lifts my chin, his intense gaze holding mine. “I never want to wake up to an empty space beside me again. I love you, Cass. No matter where we choose to live, you are my home. Marry me, angel.”
Not a question, but a statement. It’s so Calder.
The Lumineers’ song “Ho Hey” begins to pump through the speakers. Its lyrics are so appropriate for us, I get teary. We belong to each other. I cup his face and whisper against his lips, “Don’t sell your childhood home. Let’s make it happy again with our own family.”
He hooks his hands around my waist, his fingers flexing, emotion churning in his gaze. “That’d better be a yes.”
Tears spilling, I throw myself against his hard frame, knocking us onto his bed. “Yes, I’ll marry you, you stubborn, beautiful, complex man.”
When Calder presses a kiss just above my necklace, I sigh my happiness and tease, “Sebastian says you collared me.”
Lust fills his gaze and he tugs me underneath him. “If I could stamp ‘property of Calder Blake’ on that gorgeous forehead of yours without you wanting to kick me where it counts, I would.” His attention slides to my necklace. “But since the choker isn’t waterproof, I’ll just have to give you a reason to keep that ring on every single day.”
“It’s perfect, Calder.” I lift my hand up and admire the beautiful ring he’d chosen for its personal meaning, then slowly trace my fingers along the side of his face. “And I can’t wait to experience the many ways you do that.”
“I’m glad to hear it, because you’re mine, Cassandra Rockwell Blake.” Calder bites the heel of my hand and then my wrist. Sliding his thigh between mine, he nips at my collarbone, then clamps down on my neck as he slowly eases himself inside me. A flood of heat envelops my whole body when he releases my throat and rumbles against my cheek, “And I’m never letting you go.”
I twine my fingers in his hair and tug his mouth to mine. “You’d better not. I’m yours Calder Jackson Blake. Always and only yours.”
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Table of Contents
Title Page
About Steel Rush
Copyright Notice
The Day I Stopped Being a Victim
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
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Acknowledgements
About the Author
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