Total pages in book: 49
Estimated words: 44899 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 224(@200wpm)___ 180(@250wpm)___ 150(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 44899 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 224(@200wpm)___ 180(@250wpm)___ 150(@300wpm)
“Your property patch,” he explained, pressing a kiss to my shoulder. “If you’ll accept it.”
In any other context, with any other man, the idea of being someone’s “property” would have had me running for the hills. But with Sully, it meant something different, something I was only beginning to understand. Protection. Belonging. A home I’d never had. A family.
I turned in his arms, pressing a tender kiss to his lips, a stark contrast to our earlier passion. “I want it,” I whispered against his mouth. “I want you.”
His arms tightened around me, pulling me closer until I could feel his heartbeat against my own. “I love you, Darby,” he said, the words simple but weighted with promise.
“I love you too.” The truth of it settled in my chest, warm and certain.
As sleep began to claim me, my body still humming with the aftershocks of pleasure, my thoughts drifted to the evening’s unexpected turns. Dinner with Tonio. Laughter with strangers. Passion with Sully. And through it all, a growing sense that maybe, just maybe, I was finally finding my place in the world.