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“You ready?”
“You know I am!”
He smiled, staring at her. “I’m taking you on a hunt,” he announced.
She got up on her elbows, curious. “A hunt? What are we hunting?”
He angled his head at her, stroking her chin. “A monster.”
Their eyes met and remained locked for many seconds. “What…monster?”
“The scary one. With the long…green body…and jaws of thunder. Endless teeth.”
“Alligators?” she wondered, still curious.
He popped his brows twice, giving another smile.
“Why are we hunting alligators?”
“Alligator. Singular. Our alligator. Our monster.” Seeing her confusion, he went on. “Your monsters are mine and mine are yours. We hunt them together. Slay them together. We take their remains together.” He leaned and kissed her puckered forehead, smiling at her worried face.
“You wantmeto go with you to…huntan alligator?”
“And kill it.”
Her eyes widened. “Kill it?” Her head shook slowly then fast. “I can’t kill an alligator. I’ve never hunted once in my life!”
He leaned in and kissed her. “Today you will become a gator huntress. And then my wife.”
She kissed him back, her fingers raking along his scalp. “You’ll be with me?”
The fear in her voice burned through him. “Always.Alwaysbaby,” he swore, holding her face and kissing her deeply. “I will always protect you. From all the monsters. You just have to let me.”
Her arms went around his neck, and she hugged him tight. “I want you to. Only you. Nobody else.”
He pulled her into his lap and embraced her, hyper aware of the gift she’d just given him. “Nobody else. Only me.”
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“Why not just do the meeting from here?” Beth suggested, fighting to sound innocent.
“Because you have a terrible poker face and I want to use that to my advantage.”
She let him tug her down the pier while sputtering out the beginnings of several clever retorts.
“All that noise you’re making Ma-Petite confirms my suspicion that you and my mother have again conspired.”
“Conspired!”
“And repeating the offense in your sweet northern dramatics only further confirms it.”
“Sahvrin!”
“Sahvrin?”
She flustered harder at the correction. “Bishop! Would you quit being so paranoid?”
“I’m not paranoid, I’m simply aware of the facts when it comes to her and you.”
