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The questions had started surfacing after we’d found nothing else.
How could I have missed this?
How could I have totally skipped over the fact that her phone calls had become less? That her attitude about life had changed? How could I have not known that she’d gotten married?
All these questions that would never be answered haunted me now.
And Keene, sensing I was having issues, had protected me all night long. Going as far as to hide me from my brothers, or interject into a conversation, at times.
That led to now, him coming.
He grunted, and his body tensed.
Then he was filling the stupid condom with his release, his breath coming out in harsh pants.
“I have a doctor appointment for birth control next week,” I breathed into his throat.
“Good,” he uttered. “Because I want to enjoy you spontaneously, and not have these stupid things between us.”
I bit his throat, causing him to chuckle.
“You doing okay?”
The sexy rasp of his voice had my heart vibrating with excitement.
“I’m okay,” I promised, groaning when he rolled us over to our sides. “How is this super-secret thing you’re doing?”
He’d talked a lot with Hannibal and Winston today.
They’d had a lot to talk about regarding my sister’s husband.
And apparently, none of it was good.
I’d decided that it was best for my mental health to stay completely out of it and had shared that information with Keene. He’d taken it very literally and hadn’t had any discussions about Addison or Abraham in my presence since.
I knew on some level, whatever he was about to do would be dangerous.
He was trying to keep me out of it.
He was making it so I didn’t have to lie to my family.
Whatever he was about to do didn’t scare me.
I knew that he was about to rid the world of a problem. Between him and Winston’s secret words, I knew that it had to be big for Winston to fund it.
Yet, I wasn’t worried.
Apparently, the team that Keene was working with was a great one, and they were all overly qualified to be doing whatever it was they were doing.
That didn’t mean that I wasn’t curious, though.
“I’m going to go,” he said as he got up and got dressed. Only when he was completely clothed did he come back to the bed and plant a kiss on my forehead. “I’ll be back as soon as I can.”
I was half-tempted to ask him if he was leaving the country, but I figured he’d pack a bag before he did that.
“Mmmkay,” I said sleepily, my body lethargic after the early morning wakeup call. “Call me if you need me.”
“My sisters will be here around noon, right?” he asked as I heard him moving around the room. “You’re not staying here alone all day to go through everything else by yourself?”
