I claimed her without mercy. Now I want her soul. I decided Melissa was mine the moment I saw her sitting across the poker table with her scumbag fiancé. He barely paid her any attention at all until I made him bet her on the game. He won. I took her anyway. Mine. Melissa's defiant streak is cute, but I'll bend her to my will. She'll learn her place at my side... and over my knee. My enemies already fear my ruthlessness, but they haven't seen how vicious I can truly be when it comes to protecting what belongs to me. My prize, my plaything. I'll treat my woman the way we both crave—rough ecstasy when she pleases me, firm discipline when she disobeys. I claimed her with a kiss that left no doubt of her surrender. I'll claim her again and again until something else is equally clear: soon she'll have my last name, my ring on her finger, and my baby inside her.