Chapter 162

Lake POV

“Off,” I gasped, tugging at his sleep shirt. “Ramon, I want to feel you.”

He pulled back just long enough to strip off his clothes, and then he was back, skin against skin, the sensation almost overwhelming after so many days of carefully maintained distance.

“Tell me if I hurt you,” Ramon said, his hand sliding down to grip my hip. “Lake, promise me. If I do anything you don’t like, if I’m too rough, you tell me immediately.”

“I will,” I promised, though I couldn’t imagine anything Ramon did feeling like too much right now. I’d been starving for his touch, and now that I had it, I wanted everything.

Ramon’s mouth moved to my neck, kissing and sucking marks into my skin that would definitely be visible later. The thought sent a thrill through me. Everyone would know I belonged to him. Would see the evidence of his claim.

“Mine,” Ramon growled against my throat. “God, Lake, you’re mine. Say it.”

“Yours,” I gasped as his hand w