74 **Submission

The lust filled haze cleared so that I can answer him as clearly as I could.

"Say it again," he said huskily.

His wet tongue swept across his lips as he stares down at me with dark and heated eyes.

I groaned out in frustration, tempted to cover my face in embarrassment before circling my arms around his neck.

It took me a lot of courage to say it the first time.

And I bet that with his enhanced hearing, he probably heard it and wanted me to confirm.

"I submit."

With my words, I turned my head to the side completely, leaving him a clear view of the expanse of my neck, the area he had been obsessively kissing at every chance that he could.

The heated sparks gradually built across our skin, dancing along in a line of electric charge that kept me panting heavily for air.

I waited for Eros' next move.

He was frozen in disbelief at my admission but I could feel his thick shaft biting through the fabric of his pants to nudge against my naked thigh like a hot steel rod of some sort.

In fact, he might have become even more aroused from my words and actions because I could see the prominent veins on his forehead as he held himself back.

Eros panted heavily, his hot breath pillowing against my temples in soothing strokes.

By this time, my heart was hammering in my chest, stuttering a beat.

Then, a smile blossomed on his lips, and I was nearly blinded by it.

How in the world did I get so lucky?

"I don't want just your submission, Emira." His sharp canine nipped along the edge of my ear as if to reprimand me before his tongue lapped over it to take off the burn of his bite.

I yelped out at the slightly stinging sensation that caused a bout of shivers to wrack my form.

My hand immediately moved to cover my ear.

A pout was quick to form on my kiss-swollen lips.

Eros chuckled throatily and sucked against the delicate shell of my ear.

And I was instantly turned into a puddle of goo.

"I want everything. Not just your beautiful body, keen intellect, or wonderful personality, Emira," he murmured against my heated skin. "I want all of you, nothing less than that. And in return, I will give you all of me."

Eros kissed the juncture between my shoulder and neck with slow and measured sweeps of his tongue and lips.

His eyes lidded and his fingers smoothed a lock of hair between his fingers before saying, "Submitting to me comes with a lot more than you think, Emira. You will be my Alpha Female. Mine in every sense, just as I am yours."

His breath fluttered my lashes and whispers along my jaw with such sensual air that I found myself completely enthralled.

"We will be bounded together for as long as we live and, perhaps, even longer. Because not even death will separate us."

At my lack of response, Eros sighed pensively and pressed a warm kiss against my burning cheeks.

He trails the light kisses up my neck and bit down a little harder on my earlobe as if to catch my attention and make me concentrate on his words and not his arousing actions.

I swallowed thickly.

I could feel his warm hands thread through my hair comfortingly, stroking my scalp with his fingers until my entire body relaxed into the bed.

"Give me permission to have all of you, Emira," he sincerely asked. Eros' hands trembled at its perch in my hair from how hard he was holding back.

His body was shaking from restraint.

And I knew that if I said 'no', he would really stop in respect of my wishes.

This is one of the many qualities that attracted me to Eros.

His appeal was in the fact that he always gave me a say in everything.

Instead of pressuring me or forcing me into giving in like most males, Eros gave me a choice.

He didn't go Alpha male crazy and was very respectful of all of my wishes.

Even now, he made sure that I was absolutely sure of myself before I committed myself to him in one of the most permanent unions ever.

And, at this point in time, I found myself not wanting to hold anything back.

I wanted Eros.

All of him.