Heartless (The Alpha Bodyguard Series Book 9) by Sybil Bartel

Author:Sybil Bartel [Bartel, Sybil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Alpha Bodyguard Series
Publisher: Sybil Bartel
Published: 2020-12-22T18:30:00+00:00

Staring at her on her knees, I didn’t want to absorb any blame.

I didn’t want to admit I hadn’t taken her virginity because I was protecting her.

That promise I’d made to her grandmother wasn’t for her.

It was for me.

I’d been stalling.

I knew who I was back then as sure as I knew it now. If I’d taken her virginity that night, I would’ve stripped her innocence and broken her with my demands. She would’ve been left reeling when I deployed the next day, and I wouldn’t have been able to guarantee she’d be waiting for me when I came home. I’d selfishly wanted to make her my wife before I introduced her to my dominance.

I didn’t psychoanalyze why the fuck I needed to dominate. I just did. But I’d been losing the power exchange with her, even back then. The second that video went viral, I’d lost control—of her, of the situation, and of my future. Joining the Marines was the best decision I’d ever made, but it also took away my control. Which had only made my need for her worse.

Logically it was easy to understand why she’d wanted Vance to be me, but I wasn’t a forgiving man.

“Life is war.” I’d fought for every damn thing in it. Except maybe I hadn’t fought hard enough for her. Her eyes, her curves, her smooth skin, the submissive pose, I wanted to fuck her so bad right now I could taste the dominance coursing through my veins.

But I didn’t deserve her.

Maybe I never had, and fate had made the hard decision I’d refused to.

“Life is a gift,” she corrected as she regally knelt at my feet and mocked my entire fucking existence.

But even that didn’t stop me from wanting to wrap my hand in her hair and pull until her head was back, her neck was exposed, and she was breathless just from that single touch. I wanted to push her to the edge and dominate the fuck out of her.

With my mouth, my hands.

Then I wanted to fuck her harder than any sparring session with my brother she’d ever experienced. I wanted to show her she didn’t need him or that bullshit he fed her disguised as control. He was sparring with her because he wanted it. He wasn’t giving her what she really needed.

But I could.

I could give my Songbird everything.

Except right now I needed to ask her about Abernathy and what she and Vance knew, if Amherst was a liability anymore. I also needed to check in with Luna and Harm. I needed to do my damn job.

But I fucking stood here.

“Don’t look at me like that,” she whispered.

“Like what?” It wasn’t a question. It was a test.

Quieter, lower, her voice dipped to submissive. “Like you want me.” She dropped her gaze. “Like you want to touch me.”

Shoving my hands in my pockets so I didn’t wrap them around her throat, I leaned down and let my breath touch her ear. “I don’t want to touch you.”

She sucked in a sharp breath.

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