Barbarous by Minerva Spencer

Hugh tries to do the right thing, “Daphne, look at me, sweetheart.” She looked up at the warmth in his voice and the endearment. He smiled, and there was both amusement and pain in the expression. “I apologize for sending you away, but I’m afraid I can’t exercise any restraint if you remain within reach.” He gestured to the bedding that covered him, now tented around his hips." Hugh just wants to protect what's his, and the fact that he's a jealous man, “I lied when I said I would give you time to consider.” He spoke into the top of her head, his words rumbling like rolling boulders. “And I would thrash any man who so much as looked at you..." Hugh is just so unique with his compliments, “you made me come quicker than a boy with his first opera dancer.” I liked this book, I loved Hugh.