He laughed softly. He couldn’t help it. Her wild belonged only to him. He loved that, but it didn’t negate the fact that he needed to know how to protect her and his unborn children. He was rough. He liked his sex rough. He was wild. He liked his sex wild. And he liked it often. But not at the expense of his woman and children.

“Baby, if I ever hurt you, you need to tell me.”

“If Doc ever says we can’t have sex . . .” She trailed off.

He bunched her braid in his hand and tugged until her head turned and she looked up at him. Reluctantly. “Where the hell did that come from?” he demanded. He was going to kill Doc if he wasn’t communicating.

“Emma can’t. You know. With Jake. It’s hard on him, she says. Catarina’s not having a difficult time. Doc doesn’t think she’s going to have any problems carrying her baby. She’s having one. But what if, down the line he says we have to stop. I’m carrying two. You like . . .” She hesitated. “You need sex.”

His gaze moved over her face. Her beautiful face. Anxious eyes. So worried. She still didn’t get it. She still didn’t understand. Her grandfather had never made her feel important. No one had. She couldn’t possibly understand that when he told her she was his life, that was exactly what she meant to him.

“You think I could touch another woman after you? Loving you the way I do? Never going to happen, mi amorcito. Fucking never. Doc says you can’t have sex we’ll get creative. Your mouth is paradise. That’s off-limits then I guess we’ll get really good at hand jobs. Kind of like the idea of you learning how to do that for me.”

He felt her shiver. Her face was soft. Sexy. Eyes slumberous. Dios, but he loved this woman and he wanted her all over again. He was greedy when it came to her. So hungry for her he never seemed to get enough.

“I have to go, baby. I want you to sleep in,” he reiterated. “Go see Emma and Catarina, have a good time, but if my boys tell you to do something, you do it, no argument. You get me?”

Her gaze fastened to his. Stayed there. Intelligent. Far too much intelligence. He didn’t give a damn. She might suspect all kinds of things, but he needed to know she was going to do what he told her.

“They say you leave, you get your ass home, no sassing them. They’ll have orders to carry you out, you don’t cooperate. And, baby, you make them do that, you’ll be answering to me.”