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Only a few things went wrong, but they were all minor.
And not once did I lose sight of the woman who was slowly becoming someone I never wanted to let go.
CHAPTER 21
You remember when Botox was a taboo subject? Now you mention it, and nobody raises an eyebrow.
-Keene to Ande
KEENE
“That’s terrible,” the woman at my side whispered. Her hand over my heart. “I don’t even know what to say to that.”
“None of us know what to say to that,” I admitted. “But that was why I started to work with Winston. I didn’t like that I was unwittingly an accomplice to his disgusting life. I wanted to make amends, and to do that, I started working with Winston. Him, me, and a few other guys from Autry’s old SEAL team are now working in our spare time. Not all of us can go every time. But we still have enough to make a great team when it’s needed.”
“So that’s where this came from?” She ran her finger over the puckered bullet wound.
“That’s where that came from,” I confirmed.
“Holy cow,” she breathed. “Keene, I don’t even… that’s truly beautiful. The world is lucky to have someone like you who’ll do the hard things.”
My heart swelled.
I’d told her everything now.
I’d told her what a piece of shit my father was—and how he’d hurt Hades and all kinds of other kids over the span of his adult lifetime in the guise of offering families great fun.
I’d told her about my sisters and their hardships—after asking for their permission.
I told her every single important detail that I’d been hiding, until I ended with the explanation of what I did when I disappeared to places unknown but to a select few.
That led us to now, seven o’clock in the morning.
We’d been talking since six when we’d both woken up at some sound outside my apartment.
Funny enough, it’d only taken us halfway through me fucking the absolute hell out of her to realize that it was maintenance outside making sure all the security features that Winston insisted on were working properly.
Even worse, I was fairly sure the man heard her cry out to Jesus Christ again, causing him to knock in worry.
We both ignored it, and eventually he’d gone away.
It was as we were coming down from that high that I explained.
“So that’s me,” I finished.
She sat up, straddling my hips, and said, “That’s beautiful.”
“I can’t say that I ever felt that way about my life but…”
She grinned. “You never told me where your mother was in all of this.”
I curled my lip in disgust.
And, as if the world heard our discussion, that was when the phone at my bed rang.
She sat up with a giggle and a, “I’m gonna shower. Get dressed!”
I pinched her on the ass.
