Keeping What's Mine

"You're mine to keep now, is that understood?" Sebastian's voice was a low growl against my ear, his hips driving forward in one deep, punishing stroke that pulled a cry straight out of my chest. He had both my wrists trapped in one hand above my head, his other palm splayed possessively over my hip, holding me exactly where he wanted me. "Say it."

"Yours." The word broke apart on my tongue, desperate and slick with need. "I'm yours — please, Sebastian, harder—"

A rough, satisfied sound rumbled through him. He dragged his mouth along my throat, teeth grazing skin already marked from an hour before. "Good girl. Now show me how much you want to stay."

I came apart underneath him, exactly the way he'd promised I would.

I came back to Ashford Vale to save my late father's failing vineyard — not to end up on my knees for the one man in town who has every reason to want me ruined right along with it.

Sebastian Cross owns half the deeds in this valley, including the loan that's about to take mine. He's twenty-two years older than me, built like a threat, and looks at me like he's already decided what I taste like. I walk into his office asking for ninety more days. I walk out with a deal that terrifies me more than losing the land ever did: I live under his roof, work under his hand, and answer to him completely — day and night, no exceptions — or I lose everything my father built.

I tell myself it's business. He tells himself the same. Neither of us believes it past the first night he has me spread out beneath him, begging in a voice I don't recognize.

Sebastian doesn't do soft, and he doesn't do slow. He's patient right up until he isn't — and then he's all hands and heat and filthy, possessive words growled against my skin, making sure I know exactly who I belong to before he lets me come. He doesn't do the daughter of the man who once tried to ruin him. Until he does — again, and again, and again, in every room of that house, in ways that make the whole town start whispering the second they see the marks he leaves on me. I am the one thing in Ashford Vale he isn't allowed to want. That's exactly why he can't stop taking me.

Keeping What's Mine is a standalone, full-length Erotic Romance with a guaranteed HEA. Very high heat: frequent, graphic, explicit intimate content on nearly every page; a dominant, filthy-mouthed, possessive hero; edge-of-control power exchange; and small-town forbidden tension that never lets up.

Content Note: 18+ only. All characters are consenting adults. Contains explicit sexual content, power-exchange dynamics, and possessive/claiming language.

Tropes: Billionaire Hero, Age-Gap, Forbidden/Family Rivalry, Small-Town Romance, Possessive Alpha, Forced Proximity