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“I was asking your mother for her permission to marry you,” Griffen explained. “I was hoping for a more romantic proposal, but you have rather preempted that. So much for candles under the stars, or a gentle moment under the canopy of my castle. I suppose this, like all things with you, must be done in the heat of passion and on the spur of the moment.”

“Go talk to him,” Sariah’s mother said to her daughter. “This is not a conversation for old ears.”

Griffen agreed, drawing Sariah away from the crowd of villagers to a more private spot a few dozen feet from the now conquered camp.

“Escaping my squire, defying my authority, speaking out of turn.” He shook his head as he listed her crimes.

“You wish to marry me?” Sariah ignored her trespasses in order to get to the heart of the conversation. “You wish to make me your queen?”

“I wish to take you over my knee and thrash your sweet bottom until you think twice about throwing yourself into dangerous situations against my orders,” Griffen growled, his hand on her chin to direct her eyes at his face. “Once I have your family safely aboard a carriage bound for my castle, I will do just that—and then yes, I will marry you, Sariah.”

The look on her beautiful face was somewhere between confusion, happiness, and rebellion. The rebellion was no doubt related to the punishment her deserving bottom would soon be sustaining, but the confusion was something that needed to be addressed.

“I am just a peasant,” she said. “You are a king.”

“I cannot imagine a better queen,” Griffen replied. “Mine is a kingdom of those who once were wild. A shepherd girl is the perfect mate for a barbarian king, do you not think?”

“But…” Sariah’s fingers went to the collar at her neck.

“Do not worry, sweet pet,” Griffen reassured her. “You will still be mine. You will have a crown and a title, but you will always be my pet. Nothing changes between us.”

Sariah thought about that, her beauty becoming more radiant as she allowed herself to understand the full force of his love. A little spark of mischief still danced in her eyes however and he could sense there was some jest waiting to trip out over her impudent tongue.

“Griffen…” she said teasingly as his hands roamed over her back and bottom, stroking her curves.

“Yes, pet?”

“If I misbehave before the wedding, will I be required to pull the wedding carriage?”

He raised a brow at her. “That is a dangerous jest, Sariah. I may decide to make good on it.” His expression softened as he gave way to laughter and kissed her thoroughly, taking complete and total ownership of her as she melted against him.

As he held Sariah tenderly in his arms, Griffen was filled with a happiness he had not imagined possible. With her he was not just a king, or merely a barbarian. He was the one who held the leash that kept her from going astray. He was the one who plied the lash she so hated and yet so adored. And she was the one who had taken his solitude and shattered it into a thousand pieces, laid siege to the walls of his heart, and shown him that all he needed was one fierce, reckless, proud little pet who he would likely never tame, but relish the attempt every day as long as they both lived.

The End

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