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I knew what she was really asking, and I had no idea how my answer was going to make her feel, but I swore never to lie to her again. “It might help me navigate our relationship a little bit better, but it’s not going to stop me from doing what I do, Posie,” I told her. “I want to be very clear about that.”
“I’m not asking you to be a different person, Killian,” she said softly. “I’ll worry about you, but there’s a need for what you do, whether right or wrong.”
My fingers started caressing her shoulder. “There’s something else, Posie,” I said, hoping that I wasn’t about to ruin this moment between us.
She lowered her head back on my chest. “What?”
“If you’re going to open up your own call center, I want you to let me do it for you,” I told her. “Not your family.”
“No.” Her answer was automatic and firm.
“Baby-”
“Even if you don’t care what other people think, I am not going to let anyone ruin your reputation with talk about you screwing your employees, Killian,” she said, and it was hard to argue with her good intentions. “I’m also not going to let people say that you ‘bought’ me my own call center.” I could feel her shaking her head. “I guess I’m still feeling a little salty over how Laurie had tried to taint all the good that you did with your centers.”
“Fine,” I relented, but only because there really wasn’t anything that I wouldn’t give this woman. “I’ll step back while you do your own thing, but I don’t want to hear a word about moving my offices to Port Lucia.”
“Killian-”
“Posie, I am not going to do a long-distance relationship with you,” I told her firmly. “It’s going to be hard enough to still travel as much as I do, but I can deal with it as long as I know that you’re at home waiting for me. The only way for that to happen is for us to move in together as soon as possible.”
“No baby steps, huh?” she chuckled softly.
“Fuck no,” I huffed. “Now that I know what it feels like to be without you…yeah, no.” I leaned up to kiss the top of her head. “I didn’t brave the wrath of your family just to go back home alone.”
“Well, it just so happens that I’m currently unemployed at the moment, so I see no reason not to return to Calypso with you,” she teased, and all I could do was tightened my arm around her some more.
I didn’t remark to her teasing, letting the silence blanket the both of us with a comfortability that I honestly didn’t know was possible. Posie had wounds that were never going to heal, and I had issues that were never going to be solved. As long as evil existed in the world, Posie and I were never going to be free from what compelled us to do what we did. She was always going to want to help people, and I was always going to want to make people pay.
“Killian?”
“Yeah, baby?”
“I love you,” she said quietly. “I just…I wanted to say it without the drama. I wanted to say it without either of us feeling like we have to say it.”
“I’m going to roll you over now, baby,” I told her, and I waited until felt her nod with consent before doing it. Even though I wasn’t going to be laying over her completely, I was still going to be above her.
“God, you’re so freakin’ gorgeous,” she whispered as she stared up at me.
I smirked as I pushed some blonde strands back from her face. “I’m glad that you think so.”
“I do,” she replied, not feeling embarrassed to be paying me such a compliment.
“And I think that you are the most beautiful thing that I have ever seen,” I told her honestly. “That strength inside you has got to be the most stunning thing on the planet, baby.”
“This is going to be so hard,” she sighed, resigned.
“Your Uncle Ramsey wasn’t lying,” I agreed.
“Nevertheless, I still want this,” she said. “I want to do this with you and not because I’m scared that I won’t find someone else. I want to do this with you because I love you, Killian. That’s it, that’s all.”
“That’s good,” I returned right before placing a kiss on her chin. “Because I love you, too. I love you in a way that I never thought would be possible. You’re my person, Posie. I know that Lennon’s yours, and I’m okay with that. I just want you to know that you’re my person. You always will be.”
“She was only nineteen when she tore another human being apart, Killian. Can you imagine what she’s capable of now?” she asked in a way of a warning.
“I get it, baby,” I assured her. “I’m very aware that I will always need to tread lightly where Lennon Prince is concerned.”
“I didn’t say that you put you in your place, Killian,” she quickly corrected. “I said it because…well, her being only nineteen has nothing to do with what she did. Lennon has always been like that. People have been wary of her ever since she took her first steps, and…well, our children are going to be her children, too.”
