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“I wish he’d signed the divorce papers. I filed them the day after he left.”
“Not gonna be a problem after this is done,” I told her.
“Why?”
“Because I don’t plan on him getting out of this alive.”
She used her elbow to boost herself up so she was looking down at me. “Leo, you can’t kill a federal agent. Do you know what kind of time you’ll do for that?”
I reached up and smoothed back the panic in her features. “Baby, trust me on this. I know what I’m doing.”
She leaned into my hand, closing her eyes. “I’m scared.”
“Of what?”
“Losing you,” she said, her voice whisper quiet.
I sighed. “We’ve talked about this Hadley. It’s going to be fine. We aren’t alone in this, my brothers will stand with us, and when we stand together we’re a force to be reckoned with.”
My words seemed to pacify her for now. She laid back down and we spent the rest of the day sleeping, attempting to recover from the last two days.
I looked over at Macy’s bed. She had a small table beside it, and there was a picture there of Kim.
It was strange not to feel guilty with another woman in my arms as I looked into Kim’s eyes. I almost felt like she was smiling at me, that she was happy. Maybe she was. I’d found a woman who made me happy and watched over our daughter like she was one of her own. My heart ached inside my chest. But I knew now that it wasn’t because it was broken at the loss of my wife, it ached because it was being pulled back together.
There would still be cracks, those kind of things would never heal, but I didn’t want them too. They were a permanent reminder of the love I held for Kim.
Hadley had done what I had thought was impossible. She’d shown me that there wasn’t one person in this life for us. I would always mourn the woman who I lost, but I knew in my soul that she was happy I’d found someone else who could piece me back together.
I looked down at Hadley, her brown hair floated around her face, and the light that shone through the curtains gave her an angelic glow.
Maybe it wasn’t luck that Hadley had come into my life.
Maybe she was sent here, knowing that she would be the one to heal me and fill me with the passion and vibrancy that I thought I’d lost.
“Thank you,” I murmured as I looked back over at the picture, taking in Kim’s beautiful face.
Hadley groaned and shuffled, drawing my attention. Her eyes peeled open slowly.
“Thought I heard you talking,” she muttered through a sleepy haze.
“Just talking to myself.”
She rubbed at her eyes, her lips kissing my chest. “You do that often?”
I smiled. “Sometimes.”
She shook her head. “Knew you were crazy.”
I rolled her onto her back and braced my body over hers. “I’d have to be, to put up with your smart mouth.” I smirked.
She shrugged. “Part of the package. Thought you knew that.”
I bent my head, kissing her softly on the lips. “Anyone tell you that an Old Lady is meant to be quiet and listen to her man without back talking.”
“Chelsea told me to give you hell,” she said, her eyes lighting up playfully.
I laughed. “She would. She’s got Op wound around her little finger. Sometimes I wonder if I should be calling her president.”
