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Aidan’s scowl darkened. “Meaning it’s my fault?”
Brennan smirked. “I guess. Not my fault, is it? Look at her, would you? An angel come to Earth. How couldn’t I make her mine?”
How was it that he called me an angel when I’d just likened him to a fallen one?
As I peered up at him, I saw that smirk, but deep in his eyes, a glimmer ofsomethingstole my breath, because it made me think he wasn’t bullshitting them. That he really meant what he was saying.
Wishful thinking?
Or serendipity?
His words, however, triggered more silence until Aidan snapped, “She can’t be your wife.”
“Why can’t she? Got the marriage certificate to prove it.”
Before my eyes, Brennan pulled a piece of paper out of his pocket and passed it to his father.
Aidan scanned it like it was a ten-thousand line contract when, really, it was barely anything at all. I was the one who’d know—I’d read the damn thing before I signed it.
“There’s no fine print, Da,” Brennan said wryly, seeming to think as I had—that he was looking for an out. “It is what it is. Camille’s mine now.”
Three words.
Three.
Not the ones most women wanted to hear—I love you.
But a possession of ownership all the same.
Inside, something tightened and then relaxed. Like, at long last, I’d found exactly where I was supposed to be.
I’d found someone who’d call mehis.
I settled deeper into his hold, moving into his side like we were meant to be, and I tilted my face against the thick cable knit sweater he wore, nuzzling my nose against it and inhaling his purely masculine scent.
At that moment, I knew I’d found my place.
A man who declared to his parents I was his? A man likethis, with a family likehis?
Like he’d told me...
There were no take-backs.
No divorce.
This was forever.
I washis,forever.
Until death did us part.
Those vows... they meant nothing to some people, but not to Brennan O’Donnelly.
Thank God.
“We need to discuss this. My office. Now.”
The command might have had a lesser man tensing up, but Brennan merely shook his head. “No, Da. No discussion. This is my life. My choice. My decision. I made it knowing that it’d piss the family off, but it didn’t stop me.”
