“Sebring—”

“Shade,” he cut her off, taking one arm from around her to cup her face and dropping his closer to hers. “We’ll do it. We’ll take our time ’cause we got it. We’ll figure it out. In the meantime, I make sure you’re safe to move around as you like, not the least of that being making it safe for you to be with me. Starting today. So can you do without your phone for the day?”

She nodded.

“Right. Tonight, you’re back here.”

She nodded again.

“Six, Olivia. And if I’m not here, I’ll give you a key.”

“I’m uncertain I have the brute strength to open your door.”

He grinned. “It sounds angry but it’s a piece of cake.”

“Right,” she murmured, her eyes drifting to his throat.

“Livvie,” he called.

Her gaze came back.

Before he could say more words to reassure her, she spoke and as she did, just the way she did it last night, he caught the look deep in her eyes.

“You’ll give me a key.”

That said a lot for any man and woman, he knew it.

For them, the level of trust it communicated was out the roof.

And the way she felt about it wasn’t right there for him to see, but she gave it to him because he put in the effort to look deep.

“I’ll give you a key,” he confirmed quietly.

She leaned into him, her soft body yielding to his hard.

“Fuck, you gotta stop bein’ sweet or I’m gonna need to fuck you against the island and I got zero time this morning,” he warned. “I need coffee and to get a move on.”

“Okay,” she said in her soft voice.

“Now make coffee,” he ordered.

She rolled her eyes.

She’d never done that.

Now she was being sweet with her body and her normal just plain cute.

He moved his hand down, catching his shirt, yanking it up and he was about to swat her ass when he felt it was bare.

“Fuck,” he grunted.

“Sebring?”

He curled his fingers into her ass cheek.

Her lips parted and her lids lowered.

Fuck.

Without another word, he turned her and bent her over the island, yanking up his shirt and seeing her bare ass.

“Fuck,” he groaned, his hardening cock going solid.

“Sebring,” she whispered, and tipped her ass.

An invitation.

Christ.

His princess.

“Goddammit,” he muttered. Powerless against her pull, he undid his pants. “Hold on,” he ordered.

She shifted her hands to the sides of the island.

He drove his cock into her wet cunt.

Fuck.

He took her hard and fast. She came for him hard and fast. He shot deep, did it hard but luckily not quite as fast.