Chapter 68 - Sweet Dreams

Prisana did what any rational woman who had just been rejected, would have done. She pinched her own cheek.

It hurt.

Then, she looked to her smiling beast in awe at how handsome he seemed as the orange red sun highlighted his bright smile. He lovingly chucked the underside of her chin.

This was real.

Her beast truly loved her. All she could do was smile and blush like a young school maiden in return.

Dane lifted a finger to gesture to his own lips.

"This is the part where you're supposed to kiss me," he teased but Prisana motioned over to the man steering the helicopter.

There was a time and place for such things. To make out in front of a complete stranger, would fill the entire helicopter in awkward silence. She put a finger to his lips and shook her head, watching as he complied to her commands.

The pilot coughed and shouted, "We've almost reached the hospital."

"Wait," Prisana shook her head. "I'm fine. Can we just go home?"

There was this devilish glint in his eyes, "Home? You want me that badly, dearest? I won't let you rest once we reach our home."

"On second thought, maybe I broke a bone..." she lied.

His eyes widened as he carefully inspected her body, "Where? Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"It was when you hugged me earlier."

The beast actually looked at his own hands in horror and to this, Prisana laughed. She decided to chuck the underside of his chin.

"Relax, I'm stronger than I look," she assured him and pulled her hands into hers. "Let's go home."

"I want to make sure that every inch of you is alright. If I don't, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep tonight."

"Who said you were sleeping tonight?" she was the one to tease him this time but soon bore into his eyes with all seriousness. "Please, I'm really fine."

"Allow me to send for a doctor first thing in the morning."

"Deal and Dane?" she asked, peering up at him with uncertainty. "I'm sorry, I never wanted to use you. I think I knew all along I loved you but I was afraid of trusting another man...after Giovanni. I'm so stupid because you're nothing like him. You're the greatest beast, knight, and husband I could have ever wished to hope for."

Before she could stop them from falling, tears of happiness began to fall from her eyes. She tried to wipe and turn away from him but her beast of a husband was too fast. His finger found the droplet and brushed it away to nonexistence.

"Why do you look pretty even when you cry?"

Her heart could have burst any moment now. Yet, it didn't. She turned her attention to the window in hopes to distract herself from his sweet words.

"Lies. You always know the right words to make me swoon."

"Truths. Don't I deserve a reward for capturing your heart and making you swoon?" he said while looking at her lips.

She pursed her lips though grinned ear through ear, "No way, I was the one that captured your heart first and made you swoon. I only braved my heart to be the one to tell you first."

"Dearest, I'll allow you to think you've won. After all, doesn't the saying go, 'happy wife, happy life'?"

***

No matter how often Prisana pinched her cheeks, she couldn't stop smiling or giggling like a young maiden in love when she thought to his confession. God, this was all foreign to her as the only man she had ever loved was Giovanni and they never professed their love so openly.

She lay in wait for Dane as he was immersed in a conference call.

Earlier in the shower, she believed he would have made a move on her after seeing her naked form. He didn't. Instead, even after they both went through hell and heaven to reach mutual feelings, the love of her lifetime simply bathed beside her.

Before she knew it, they had done nothing and here she ended up on the bed, alone as he had an urgent call to take.

Her plan as she lay in wait, was to seduce her husband.

Prisana went in for the kill.

The classic boyfriend's T-shirt!

She had rummaged through one of his drawers and slipped on his shirt. His smell from the shirt only aroused and excited her for what was to come next. Prisana lay on her side as she propped her head on one hand.

The door swung open, "Sorry, that call took...longer than I expected."

"You're wearing that to sleep?" he motioned to the shirt she had stolen.

"Do you have a problem with it?"

"Yes, you could catch a cold."

Prisana frowned as her plan faltered because Dane only rummaged inside one of his drawers and helped her dress into some dark sweats.

"I think that I'm working a little too hard to seduce you, foolish husband. Didn't you warn me you wouldn't let me rest or was that all talk?"

Dane tipped her chest so that her back lay flat against the bed and he was hovering above, merely a breath away.

His whisper was dangerously seductive next to her ear, "You yourself should know best if it would be all talk."

He tossed the blanket over her shoulder so her whole body was wrapped in warmth. Next, came his large arm that rested over her stomach.

"A beast can joke. He know's his lynx's limits too."

"But I'm fi—"

"Some bastard sullied you face, cut your hair, and you almost drowned. If that's not reaching your limit's then I don't know what is."

Now, Dane was finally hers. Body and heart. The daring lynx inside of her was eager to further confirm his love for her by becoming one.

"I really don't mind."

"Shh, sleep."

"You don't want me? Oh..."

Her voice trailed off as she could feel his hot heat rub over her buttocks. Then he continued giving her warmth from behind as one of his hand covered her eyes.

"What man wouldn't want to take the woman they love, laying beside them?" he boldly admitted but refused to give in. "Sleep."

"Dane?"

He laughed, "Stop talking. Stop...thinking, at least for now."

"You said you loved me. The universe was our witness. There's no way you can take it back."

Dane squeezed her body tight, tucking away a a choppy strand of hair so that he could fully gaze at her face from above.

"And you said you loved me...Worry all you might because when I fell for you, I knew that in this lifetime, I would be forever yours."

"Sweet beast," she whispered with a giddy smile as she slowly felt fatigue take over.

She yawned before nestling back further into him, "And I am forever yours."

"It's been a long, long day. Sweet dreams, lynx."