Page 220 of The Baby Bargain
"I just…" My eyes go to the mirror. We look good locked together. He's so tall and broad. I'm more… I guess I'm tall for a girl, but I'm more than half a foot shorter. Next to Chase, I look small. Dainty even.
His skin is darker. His eyes are lighter. His sandy hair makes my dark locks look black.
"I'm not going to have boobs," I say.
"You're not doing reconstruction?"
"Would it bother you?"
"Not my body."
"But would it?" I turn around so I can look into his eyes. "Would you want me less?"
"Princess…"
"Would you?"
He cups my neck with his palm. "I love your tits, Ariel. They're fucking gorgeous."
My stomach twists. He's a boob guy. All guys are boob guys. I'm not going to have them anymore. I'm going to be marked. Different.
"But you know what I love more than that?"
"No." I swallow hard.
"The sound you make when I do this." He pushes my robe aside. Brushes my nipple with his thumb.
Fuck, that's intense. My eyes close. My heart races. My fingers dig into the cotton. "Chase…"
"Yeah, I'm gonna hate that I can't make you groan like this. But I'll find another way."
"You don't… You'll still want me?"
"You think I want you because of your tits?"
I force myself to look into his eyes. "Don't you?"
His brow knits with concentration. "I love your body exactly as it is now. I love your soft hips and your curvy waist, and, yeah, I love your lush tits. But that isn't why I want you."
"It's not?" That doesn't make any sense.
"It's your smile. The way your dark eyes get big. The way they fill with need. The way you touch me like you adore every inch of my skin."
"I do."
"I do too, princess. I love your body. It's beautiful, yeah. But I don't love it because it's beautiful. I love it because it's yours."
He loves my body. Because it's mine.
Does he love me?
God, I want him to love me so badly.
I want him to want me so badly. I'm used to his lust. I crave it. I run on it.
"So you don't…" My brow furrows. "They'll be all hard and weird."
"So?"
