Chspter 117

He sat up and pushed her gently onto her back. “I know what you’re thinking. I can read it on your face.” He paused and forced her to look at him. “You’re mine right now, Pearl. Vergel had you for three whole days. He knows where you are right now and he’s okay with that. I need for you to be okay with that, too. You’re mine for this entire day and Vergel knows it.”

She raised an eyebrow. “Do I get a say in this?”

A wicked, sexy smile curved his mouth. “I’d have a mind to tie you to the bed if you denied me, but, yes, you have a say. You always have a say.”

As he spoke, he rubbed her collarbone slowly with the pad of his thumb. A moan caught in her throat. The man was a troublemaker. The mere look in his eyes made her breath hitch.

“You’re not joking about tying me to the bed, are you?”

“No, baby, I’m not joking. I’m dreaming of it.”

She shivered. “Vergel told me you’d want to do something like that.”

“Do you have a problem with it?”

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