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She slipped her arms around my waist. “But we’re worse off.”
“At least we’re together,” I rasped. “And that’s how this has to go, Star. Together, you hear me?”
She nodded against my belly. “Together.”
Blindly, I stared ahead at my center of operations where I protected my brothers from jail sentences and where I kept Acuig Corp. one step ahead of the SEC and ensured the Five Points ruled the roost that was NYC.
This office was where I played with electricity and where I’d monitored, hacked, and surveilled more people than the Feds likely had since their inception.
This was my base.
Star had made it my home.
I cupped the back of her head and, with a tenderness only she brought out in me, stroked her nape. “Anton has to trust us.”
“Agreed. He can’t suspect that we think he’s scum.”
Such a way with words…
“He’s still coming for the first gala, isn’t he?” I asked.
“Supposed to arrive in the city this Friday.”
“Do you have any idea where Reinier’s secret estate is? Other than what Camden had to say about a party house next door to the Daniels’ place?”
“No.”
“Keep searching.” I sucked in a breath as the realization struck… “If you need to put pressure on that bank president, do it.”
“Even though…”
“Even though his daughter was a victim and didn’t deserve to be blackmailed?” I blew out the breath I’d just sucked in. “This is bigger than one person, Star. I get that. Explore every possible avenue first, but that’s endgame material. Understood?”
“Understood.” She rocked her head back. “I wish things could be simpler.”
“My life has never been simple, Star,” I told her, trailing my fingertip along the curve of her cheekbone. “But until you came along, I wasn’t happy. I’d rather be in this with you than living a simpler life without you.”
She tugged her bottom lip between her teeth. “Maybe you’re the crazy one.”
“I think aluminum foil suits me rather well,” I concurred, which earned me a small smile.
“What did Aidan want at dinner?”
I blinked as my mind rewound to the meal at Dagger and Lorelei’s place. “We never got around to speaking… Not after Lorelei apologized to you.” Leaning down again, I kissed the tip of her nose. “We’re going to make a brighter future for ourselves, Star. Away from the shadows of our pasts, okay?”
While she nodded, for the first time in our relationship, she looked at me to make this situation better.
It was there, in the desperate hope that tightened her brow and in her beseeching stare. It made me determined to give her the peace she fucking deserved after what she’d been through.
“I promise, Star, once this is over, we can live our lives in PJs and camp out with Kat at gymnastics practice and hack into her school computer system to make sure she gets straight As.”
Her smile was tremulous but it was there. “You promise?”
“I do and I never break a promise.”
Some of the usual cocksureness returned to her expression and, suddenly, all was right with my world again…
Now I just had to fulfill my goddamn purpose on this fucking planet—helping my woman bring down the bad guys.
