Page 38 of Bound by Vengeance
“And will there be other women?” sheinquired.
“No.”
“Before you say no, be aware that we’llnever have sex. We can pleasure each other, but it will never gothat far.”
“And why not?”
“I have my reasons.”
“You’ve been with other men.”
“I have,” she confirmed.
The flippancy of her reply set his teeth onedge. “But you won’t be with me?”
“No.”
“You’ll let other men—”
“Don’t go there.”
Red briefly flared through her eyes, butthis time he knew it was due more to anger than passion, and hefelt the answering emotion rising in him.
“Ichoosewho I fuck,” she said.“Don’t question or judge my choices.”
“And how many have you chosen?”
“Five,” she replied, retaining her casualposture on the bed though she’d claw his eyes out if he made onesnide comment, and coming from a place where he resided in astronghold of chaste women, he might. “And what of you, Nathan, howmany women have graced your bed?”
“Eleven.”
The green-eyed monster reared its ugly head,but she kept it suppressed. With his looks, she’d expected thenumber to be higher, but she suspected it had something to do withhis upbringing. In a normal environment, he would have been rollingin the women, but in his world, his options were slimmer. Still,she contemplated killing every woman who’d ever known him in a wayshe never would.
“Does it make you happier to know?” sheasked him.
“No.”
“I didn’t think so.”
He finished putting on his boots and rosefrom the bed. He couldn’t stop himself from drinking in the visionof her golden body, but whereas before a sensual air surroundedher, now she radiated hostility.
“You won’t be with other men while this isgoing on between us,” he said.
“The only orders I take are in bed.”
Nathan’s blood pressure hit the roof whenher words sent a white-hot spear of jealousy through him.
Vicky almost gulped at the look that crossedhis face; she realized she’d poked aniratebear. If he wasfeeling a tenth of the jealousy over this conversation she was,then this grizzly might rampage.
Demon DNA in hunters,she remindedherself. Did that mean he was also feeling some of the pull of themate bond to her too?
She buried her rising hope at thepossibility. In this situation, hope might kill her faster thanNathan walking out of her life to marry another.
“If no other men for me, then no other womenfor you,” she told him.
“Agreed.”
“Will you let me know when a bride is chosenfor you and you become engaged?” she inquired.
