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Quinn smiled up at me while working shampoo into her hair. “Me? Yes.” Her gaze dropped momentarily to my chest, then bounced back up to meet mine. “Thanks to you.”
“No, I mean are youokayokay,” I said more seriously. “With… well, what happened tonight.”
She considered me thoughtfully for a moment, and then shrugged.
“You mean am I okay that you killed that man?”
I didn’t answer. Her smile faded into a smirk.
“Or that the others are probably getting rid of the body right now?”
God, she was pretty fucking succinct, wasn’t she? But she was also spot on. I had to give her credit for that.
“Look, Quinn…”
“That guy almost killed me back there,” she said matter-of-factly. “I would’ve killedhimif I could’ve.”
I nodded. “I know.”
“The fact that you killed him first doesn’t change anything. He was trying to hurt us. And now he’s dead.”
She leaned back, closing her eyes and letting her hair dangle into the hot spray. Naturally arching her back had the fortunate effect of pushing her soapy, magnificent tits my way. I fought back three-hundred thousand years of male evolutionary urge not to grab them.
“I’m glad that he’s dead,” she told me. “And I don’t care what you do with him. As far as I’m concerned, the whole thing never happened. And if anyone were to ask, I never saw that man in my life.”
Damn, I realized. She reallywaslike us. Most women would be crying, sobbing, demanding to call the police. They’d be confused by something as simple as us taking care of things ourselves.
But not her.
I watched as this beautiful creature continued washing her hair, looking cool and casual. It was sexy as all fucking hell. She’d have scabs and bruises tomorrow that were entirely our fault, and that part enraged me. But the way she handled herself was the biggest turn-on in the world.
Without thinking I reached out and touched her stomach. Was it protruding just a little? Or was it my imagination?
Fuck. Just the idea of that was evenmoresexy…
Quinn’s hands closed delicately over mine. She forced my palms flat, then slid them down a little to where our child was growing inside her.
“The baby’s fine,” she smiled up at me. “I know you’re worried, but you shouldn’t be.”
My heart felt swollen and heavy. I had the sudden need to envelop her with my arms. To crush her against me and hold her there until the end of the world.
Instead I just leaned down and kissed her, ever so gently, on the side of her swollen, angelic face.
“I already know the three of you will keep me safe,” Quinn murmured through the steam. She squeezed my hands meaningfully against her pregnant belly. “Or rather, you’ll keepussafe.”
It was a good thing the shower was on. Because while I wasn’t sure, I thought my eyesmightactually betray a tear.
“But I need you to promise me something even more important, Cole.”
More important?Nothing could possibly be more important.
“Anything, princess,” I breathed.
“The three of you keep yourselves safe too,” Quinn murmured, pressing her way into my chest. Her beautiful face fit against me perfectly, cradled between my pecs. Like it was made to go there.
“Because I don’t think I could live without you.”
Thirty
