" Are you dictating to me, baby?”
“I am totally”— she stroked her hand back and forth on his shaft—“ dick-tating to you. Are you listening?”
Uh. What? Dammit. He tried to focus. “Listening and obeying. Your wish is my command.”
Maybe she’d wish for some oral. He loved to lap at her cream.
“Rule one. Don’t touch my bacon. Or chocolate. Or basically anything I’m eating or might want to eat.”
“Hold on, does this mean I can’t masturbate anymore? Because we both know you like eating that.”
How he loved her red cheeks. “Hayder!” And the shocked tone. Even better, he smelled her arousal.
“So was that a yes or a no on the whole touching myself thing?”
Her answer was a growl as she pounced on him. He caught her with ease but still allowed himself to stumble back until his legs hit the couch. He dropped down onto it, with her on his lap. Straddling him. He reached to brush her dark hair back, his gaze caught by the serious expression in hers.
“I’ll give you my heart and soul for whatever thought is running through your head.”
Screw a penny. Go big or go home.
“I was thinking how much my life has changed.”
“For the better of course.”
She laughed. “Of course. As if your ego would allow for anything else.”
“I’d do anything for you, baby.”
Including walking away from the fight for pack alpha so that she could realize she didn’t need him or anyone else to win her battles.
“I know you would. Oh, what the hell, I’ll marry you. And I’ll even share my bacon because you know what? I love you.”
Good thing he was already sitting. She definitely stole the strength from him in that moment.
Felled the mighty lion with words. "

― Eve Langlais , When a Beta Roars (A Lion's Pride, #2)