Page 114 of Peasants and Kings
So much more.
More than anything I’d ever felt in my entire life. Hadrian was my reason for being on Earth.
“I’m yours, Hadrian,” I whispered, my throat tight with emotion.
“I’m not a normal man,” he said, his voice so low I had trouble hearing him over the sound of the storm through the glass. “I can’t promise you normal.”
“What are you promising me then, Hadrian?” I asked, my heart thundering in my ears.
“The world, Sterling. I’m promising you the world.”
His words lay at my feet, like a prize a warrior would offer his queen after a battle hard won.
Silence reigned between us.
“I don’t want the world, Hadrian,” I finally said, continuing to hold his stare. “I just want you.”
He claimed my mouth.
I wrapped my arms around his neck, trying to get closer, trying to burrow into him. It would be different, this time.
His phone rang, pulling us out of the moment. Hadrian answered it.
“Patrick?” His lusty gaze remained on me while he listened to his head of security. “Aye. All right. I’ll deal with it tomorrow morning.”
He hung up and stared at the fireplace for a moment.
“Hadrian?” I prodded.
“Patrick found the intruder.”
“In this storm? How?” I asked in shock.
“The infrared cameras picked up a foreign vessel in the outcrop on the other side of the island.”
“Infrared cameras? Oh sure.” I shook my head. “How did he get past your state-of-the-art security system? How did he manage to get here undetected?”
“I’ll find out tomorrow morning when I question him,” he said, clenching his jaw. “But he’s clearly a professional, otherwise he wouldn’t have gotten as far as he did.”
“How are you going to—are you going to hurt him?”
“Hurt him?” His tone was arctic. “I’m going to kill him.”
My breath hitched.
His expression hardened at the sound. “Are you sure you know what you’re signing up for by choosing to be with me?”
I was silent.
“Sterling? Answer me,” he commanded. “Answer me before I take you to bed.”
“I don’t know, Hadrian,” I said softly, looking up at him through the sweep of my lashes. “All I know is that I want to be with you—and I’ll sort out the rest as it comes.”
He slowly untied the belt from around my waist and pushed open the robe, guiding it off me, and then urged me to the bed.
When I was naked and splayed out, he climbed onto the bed and placed a kiss at my navel. Then his lips dipped lower. Pleasure kindled between my legs as he feasted on me.
He grasped my hips and held me to him while his tongue danced and teased. My fingers sank into his hair, and I gave into everything I was feeling.
