“I wanted to do that, I even tried to do it. But this life, the one handed to me. It isn’t easy to get out of no matter how hard you try. And then there’s my leopard. Used to that shit. Hard to control. But still, I tried. Then when I realized it wasn’t going to happen, not like I could live free and clean, before I met you, I made a decision. I didn’t know it would ever be possible to find a woman like you, a woman who deserved so much better than I could give her, who would accept me as I am.”

She pressed kisses to his jaw, slid her tongue up to his ear. “What decision?”

All the while her body rode his. Slow. Infinitely slow. Burning. Scorching hot. Gripping. Her sheath was so tight he felt like she was strangling his cock in the tightest fist possible. Milking him. The friction was exquisite. With the slow glide she was doing, his brain was beginning to fray around the edges. Still, that glide told him something important. She loved him. She belonged to him. She claimed all that was Elijah Lospostos, even his reputation.

“I made the decision, knowing I couldn’t take all of them that route, to try to legitimize as much of my businesses as I could. I was doing that when I met Drake Donovan. Drake was running a crew of leopards in Borneo. They went after kidnapped victims and returned them. I went to Borneo to check on my sister, Rachel. I was at war with my uncle’s soldiers to take over the family business and I was worried Rachel might be caught in the middle. There were rumors I put out a hit on her. I was really worried that there was a hit out on her and I wanted her protected.”

Keeping her eyes on his, Siena arched her back, reaching behind her with her hands to run them over his thighs. The muscles there jumped in response. The angle allowed even greater friction. His breath caught in his throat. He especially loved the way her position allowed her breasts to jut out invitingly, swaying with every movement she made.

His fingers bit deep into her hips and then slid up her belly, over the soft resting place of his children. “Drake explained to me that there were more leopard families in organized crime than mine. Quite a few more. He came up with a good idea. At least I thought it was good, because I didn’t have a family and was never going to have one.”