"Take what I'm offering or I'll find someone else who will.
"Find someone who will. He repeated it like he couldn't believe she said it. Shivaay's fingers tightened hard enough to bruise on her hips. "Do you think for a goddamn second that I'll let you?
A thrill went through her at his words, but she fought to keep her face expressionlessa Herculean feat as it were.
"This is temporary, Shivaay. You've reminded me of that several times, haven't you?. In fact, not less that ten minutes ago, you were happy to play my wedding planner
"I changed my f**king mind.
"Too bad. Maybe I don't want you anymore now.
"You want me, Anika. He used his grip to guide her down. "You want me so much it scares the shit out of you. No other man will do, and you damn well know it.
He wanted her as much as she wanted him, even if a part of him hated that. Anika didn't care. Everyone else in this world was taking what they wanted with no apologies. It was time for her to do the same. She licked her way up his neck to bite his earlobe. "You can't get me out of your system and that drives you insane, doesn't it? "You want to keep me.
"Yes. Shivaay kept one hand on the small of her back, preventing her from moving awayas if she were going anywhereand reached up to grip her hair. "I'm keeping you. You had your chance to leave. You came back. You're mine now. There is no way out of this.
It was a demand, not a request. If he wanted her, he was very well going to have her. She hadn't realized she had no intention of letting this man go either, but sometime in the last hour it had cemented in her mind. Come hell or high water, they were in this together.
"For good. Shivaay whispered, his mouth against her neck. She leaned back enough to force him to meet her eyes. "And if you hurt me again, I will leave, and I will disappear to where you can never find me.
"There's nowhere you could run that I wouldn't find you. He shifted, gripping the back of her neck.. "And that gets you off like nothing else, knowing that I'd rip myself apart to hunt you down, that I wouldn't rest, wouldn't eat, would go mad with wanting you until you were with me again. To know that you're f*cking irreplaceable.