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“Why aren’t your friends here? Don’t you always travel in a pack?” Her lips teased into a grin, and his mouth tipped into a smile at her words. “We’re not wolves.”
“You know how they say, Be the change you want the world to see, or something along those lines?” she asked. “That’s how you make me feel. You inspire me. Make me strive to be better.”
“Because you’re the kind of person a man risks everything for.”
“And I’ll stay by your side until the day I die,” he said, his voice level.
“You’re not just anyone. You’re the one. The one I thought I couldn’t have, and I plan on giving you the entire world.”
He was thirty-seven and had wasted too many years denying himself, denying Adriana, of what they’d both apparently wanted for a long time.
They didn’t need to find their way back to the night they’d first kissed. Because the relationship they’d built over the years was bedrock, solid, indestructible.
Trusting her had never been a problem. It was worrying about her that was going to do him in.
guess you never really can know a person, can you?” And that was the truth. The sad damn truth.
“Whenever I’ve thanked officers or veterans for their service, so often they say to me, ‘don’t thank me, just be the kind of person worth protecting.’
Fear, the kind the devil whispered, tried to sneak up her spine, but she refused to give in.
“You have to let go of me now,” she murmured. “Don’t ask me to do the impossible,” he said in a gritty voice and brought his mouth to hers.
“He’s sacrificing himself so our entrance can be legally justified,” Luke explained, and the oh-shit moment hit her. These guys were willing to do anything and everything for the country.
Knox briefly dropped his eyes to their clasped palms, and his heart stuttered. The woman was stubborn, and maybe he even loved that about her. But he didn’t want her to be stubborn right now. No, he wanted her to be safe.
Ultimately, it’d been Adriana’s decision, and he had to accept she was willing to do whatever necessary for her country. Same as him.
“And then I want you to give me a daughter who looks like you, who has the same heart and spirit.” His free hand braced the bed over her shoulder as he leaned in. “Oh? Anything else?” she asked, their lips nearly touching. “Of course.” He smiled. “She’ll be needing a brother for protection.”
They had each other. She was his person. She’d always be his person. And he’d always protect her whether she liked it or not. And maybe—just maybe, he’d consider letting her protect him, too. Never with her life, though. Only her heart.
