Page 26 of Seductive Sin

A moment later, I roll off of her, onto my side, so that I’m looking at her.

“Open your eyes, Savannah.”

She obeys me and rolls onto her side so we’re facing each other.

“Understand this,” I say, my voice as serious as I can get it. “You belong to me, and no other man. Tell me you understand.”

“Falcon, we’ve been through this.”

“Yes, and you said it. But you were in the heat of passion. I said what I did also in the heat of passion. But I want you to say it to me now, now that we’ve both climaxed. Tell me that you understand. That no other man will ever touch you.”

“That’s what I want more than anything,” she says.

“It’s what I want more than anything too, but that’s not what I said.”

“Falcon, I?—”

“Tell me now, Savannah. You will not go running off to Miles McAllister thinking you’re making my life better. Because you won’t be. You won’t be making my life better if you’re with another man.”

“But if it means you don’t go to prison…”

“Savannah.”

“No, Falcon.” She flips over, turning her naked back to me. “You’re not being fair. I love you. I love you just as much as you love me. Believe that.”

I roll her back over so she’s facing me again. “I do believe that.”

“Then understand that I can’t have a life without you anymore than you can have one without me.”

“If you’re with Miles McAllister, what good does it do to keep me out of prison?”

“It makes your life better.”

“My life will never be better if I can’t have you.” I grip her arms firmly. “If I have to spend every moment thinking about you in someone else’s arms, in someone else’s bed. I’d rather be in prison than have that.”

She gulps then, audibly. “All right. I understand. But I can’t bear the thought of you back in that prison.”

“Trust me, Savannah, it’s not what I want either.” I take her face in my hands. “But do not give yourself to another man thinking you’re helping me. Because you’re not.”

She nods, and in her eyes I see the truth. She believes me.

“But Falcon,” she says, “they will not stop. The McAllisters will come back. They will search all over until they find me.”

“How can you possibly be that important to them?”

She bites her lip. “I wish I knew. Something’s going on that you and I don’t know about. And until we figure it out and put an end to it, they will not stop. They will not rest until I am married to Miles.”

“I don’t understand.”

“I know you don’t, Falcon. I don’t understand a lot of it myself, but I do know that they would not be pushing this if it weren’t necessary. At least necessary as far as they believe.”

“I can have Leif look into this. He’s a great PI. He investigates for the Wolfe family in New York.”

“No, Falcon. Please. It’s enough that he’s taking care of our dogs while we’re here. Please don’t ask him to do anything else. He and Kelly are still newlyweds. They need to have their time together.”

“There’s no one else I trust, Vannah.”

“What about your brothers?”