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I reach between her cheeks and tap the tight pucker of muscle again.“Do you need me to continue?”

She shakes her head.“No.”

I pull the T-shirt over her bottom, followed by the covers up her body.

She rolls onto her side, facing me, and pulls her knees up.“I’ve never slept without panties,” she says.

I rub her hip.“From now on, you will.After we’re married, you will sleep without the T-shirt, too.I’m only letting you have it to help keep your fingers away from your nipples and your pussy.No touching.”

She sighs.

“Are we clear, Reagan?”

“Yes, Sir,” she whispers.

My cock gets so hard when she calls me Sir.I need to get out of here before I lose control of myself.“Sleep, baby.I’ll set my alarm to get you to work on time.”

“Okay.”

My chest is tight as I leave my girl, my woman, my life alone in that bed while I head for the room next door.I hope she consents to marrying me soon.I’m not sure how long I can keep up this charade.Eventually, I’ll cave and bring her into my bed.I still won’t have sex with her.That’s a definite.But if she holds out much longer, I won’t have the willpower to let her sleep in another room.

I leave the door wide open.I want to be able to hear her through the night.If she needs to use the bathroom, she’ll have to walk past me.

As I strip down to my briefs and climb into the bed that will be ours, it’s difficult to relax.My woman is in the next room, yards away from me.I can hear her moving.She’s not asleep yet.

I want her in my arms, in my bed.I want to end every day kissing her and sliding into her.I want to start every day the same way.I’ve never been so consumed by another person—so much so that I can’t stand to be apart from her.All I can think about is Reagan and when I will hold her again.

More importantly, how long will it take me to convince her to marry me and commit to a lifetime of being in my space?

I know I’m doing the right thing by making her sleep in her own bed, but it’s hard.I want to go scoop her up and carry her in here.I want to spread her open and show her what it will feel like to take me inside her.The desire to fill her with my seed and hold her down while still buried deep is strong.

Now I understand why my brother plucked Claire out of her home and moved her into this mansion a week after he met her.He also moved her into his bed.There are few secrets in this house.I’m aware Ryder didn’t have sex with her until their wedding night.Hell, I slept in my RV to give them privacy and keep myself from hearing the noises coming from their room.

I don’t really give a fuck if they hear Reagan scream.It’s going to be damn near impossible in the long run for all of us to live in this mansion and keep our sex lives completely private.

I turn my head toward the open door.There’s enough light coming through the windows that still have no blinds that I can see my girl lying on her back.I wonder if she’s sleeping.

As if she senses me, she turns her head in my direction.There’s no way to see each other’s expression, but I’m certain she’s as aware of me as I am of her.Fuck, this is hard.

Chapter18

Tiago

Luckily, Reagan didn’t put up much of a fight when I drove her to work this morning.I know she wanted to put her foot down and insist she was perfectly capable of going on her own.She sighed and rolled her eyes at me several times, but she didn’t argue.She’s learning.

I didn’t put my nose in her business either.I sat on a stool behind her desk and pretended to be engrossed in my phone while she got her first group off.When her hiking group showed up, I held my tongue.

It was a group of four guys about her age.If I’d found out after the fact that she had been on a hike with four twenty-something men for two hours, I would have spanked her ass until she couldn’t sit for a week.

I have no idea if they would have flirted with her because as soon as they stepped into her shop, I rose from the stool, set my hands on her shoulders from behind, and kissed her temple.“Do you need me to do anything, baby?”I asked loudly enough for all of them to hear.

She turned toward me so they couldn’t see her face, shot me a glare, and rolled her eyes for the tenth time.She didn’t say a word.

I grinned, knowing I’d staked my claim.And then I went on the hike with them.Imostlystayed out of her business.I didn’t say much, letting her talk and do her thing, but I didn’t pass up any opportunity to touch her when everyone was looking.

“You’re such a caveman,” she says to me after the hike when we’re back in the Cadillac.

I shrug.“Baby, I’m going to spank your ass for thinking you could take four men on a hike and not mention it to me.I would have spanked youmuchharder if I’d found out afterward.”

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