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“I struggled with leaving the SEALs. I was pissed and bitter…angry. There was even a time I resented Neo and the fact that he was still operating.”
“Why didn’t you tell me this?”
“Maybe I couldn’t tell you about it, maybe the cement that held me together might crack under the strain and crumble.”
She found his hand and laced her fingers with his. “Maybe what holds you together is more flexible, more pliable, like where the rubber meets the road. Because from where I’m at right now, I see a man who put his brother, his pain, his brotherhood, his career, his country before himself. You want to know what that is?”
He rubbed his thumb over her lips, the softest, most tender look in his eyes. “I’m sure you’re going to tell me.”
“Courage.” She clamped both hands to his face and looked him deep in the eyes. “It’s the definition of courage.” She took a breath. “I think you are—”
He silenced her with a kiss, and she melted against him, her arms snaking around his neck, her body pressing up against his.
“You’re so beautiful, O. So damn beautiful.”
He had her out of her nightgown before she even felt it.Yay, Navy. Yay commando skills. He rolled on top of her, rubbing himself against her, taking her breath away.
She was melting from the inside out. Dean loved her—it was all she needed. Every time, he gave her so much pleasure.
“Dean…” His name sighed out of her on a groan of pleasure more intense than anything she’d ever known.
He fitted himself to her, more commando moves, so much admiration for the Navy. He was hot, hard, and heavy, and he held her so strongly as he thrust hard. She captured his butt, urging him faster, deeper. He was a big man, every inch of him solid muscle, and when he came, she felt every last pulsing thrust, her body and heart alive and in tune with his.
He didn’t withdraw for a long time, just held her there, keeping her close in his arms, breathing softly against the side of her face.
“That was amazing,” he finally said.
“Absolutely,” she agreed.
“Wanna go again?”
A smile curved her mouth. “I think you might be thinking with this head.” She tapped his temple.
“Nope.” He grabbed her hand and covered his heart. “I’m thinking with this organ.”
She melted again. “Oh, Dean.”
Her eyes widened when she felt him hard again, and he grinned.
She would love him forever, and as he thrust again, she had a revelation.
She hadn’t realized it then. She knew it now, though—after she had lost it all. And it was something she had never been able to forgive herself for—for what she had done to Dean. If she could go back, she would do it again. She had to for both of them. But it wasn’t her parents she had to forgive. No. She had to forgive herself.
And with that thought, she set herself free.
Free to love him, free to enjoy a future with him. Free of everything as she closed her eyes and joined her heart with his and found her way to her happily ever after.
* * *
Dean walked into the garage. Ave was turning out to be the best damn manager he could hope for, and the guy was a crack hacker with a little of MacGyver thrown in. Gage had been hard at work behind a screen. Dean was curious, but he let the Marine have his privacy.
His cell phone rang, and he answered it. “Teller,” he said.
“Dean, it’s Jim.” He and O’s dad were on a first name basis now.
“Yes, sir. What’s up?”
“I traced your parents’ home through real estate records. Did you know that your great grandparents owned it and passed it down to your maternal grandmother?”
