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Because he was too busy shielding me.
It seemed to go on for hours, for days.
But then it came.
The silence.
Broken only by our labored breathing.
“Are you hurt?” Nino asked, but his voice sounded like it was coming from very far away. “Savannah?” he asked, tone louder, more panicked. “Are you hit?”
“Are you?” I heard myself ask.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Nino
It was the perfect fucking night.
The best of my life.
Everything I had planned and more.
I was starting to see things, think things.
Like having that woman in my bed every single night, curling into me, moving over and under me. Like having her dancing around my kitchen as I cooked. Or across the table from me as we ate. Maybe a couple kids to join us. Or more than a couple, if that was what God had in mind for us.
And I liked those images.
I was ready to say something to her, about this not being casual, about wanting to explore what it was.
The only thing holding me back was the fact that, to do so, I was going to need to tell her who I was. Who my family was. What I did for a living.
I wasn’t sure if I was ready for the rejection that might come with that admission. As much as I knew that keeping it from her was not a smart move, was not fair to her.
I had all those thoughts in my mind as I was walking out of my bathroom, seeing her beautiful, naked body sprawled across my bed, watching me with something in her eyes that I didn’t recognize, but that damn near took my breath away.
It was right then that the dream was shattered.
Along with the windows in the lower floor.
Guns.
A drive-by.
I’d never known panic like that before.
Not for me.
For her.
I flew across the room as the upper windows started to shatter.
I felt like a dick, grabbing her leg, yanking her off the bed, letting her slam down on the floor.
But all I could think of was protecting her from taking any more bullets from me.
My body slammed down over hers, every inch of me covering her as I heard thethunkas the bullets landed in the wood of the dresser, in the pillar of the bed.
