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He smiles back. “Merry Christmas.”
“It’s starting to feel like it.” I shift my leg.
Dom groans and pulls back. “I want nothing more than to fuck you in the back seat. But I promised myself we’d have a family holiday.”
His words hit me right in the center of the chest. “I would like that.”
He presses his forehead against mine for one long breath before he climbs back out.
“Alright. Then let’s go have a family holiday.” His tone is salty, and I can’t help my laugh when he slams the door and circles around the hood.
The engine has been running this whole time, keeping the heat on. So Dom just buckles his seat belt, then puts it in drive, and we pull away from the little airport.
“This isn’t the same airport we used when we went to Colorado.” I point out the obvious as we turn out of the main gates onto the quiet street.
“We keep our locations random, not using the same airport two times in a row. But it’s just a precaution. All my flights and planes are registered under real names that have nothing to do with me.”
There’s a blacked-out SUV that matches ours right in front of us and a pair of those all-black cars about a hundred yards ahead of them.
“Are these guys going to your mom’s too?” I gesture out the windshield. “I thought it was just us?”
The airfield stretches out on our right, on my side. And on Dom’s side is some sort of industrial complex. Large, low buildings that look unoccupied for the holiday. We must’ve been the only people at the airport because the roads are empty.
“They’ll drive with us there, then break off.”
I’ve gotten so used to having someone drive us around that it feels weird to be alone in a vehicle with Dominic. And I hate that it makes me feel a little nervous to not have extra security on hand. Apparently I’ve gotten too used to the chauffeured, bodyguard lifestyle.
The brake lights of the two cars illuminate in the snow as they approach a stop sign.
I almost snicker at them stopping. Bunch of law-breaking gangsters stopping for street signs when no one is around.
To hide my smile, I look out my window.
The ground drops down about ten feet into a ditch, and I can see the top curve of a large culvert running beneath the road.
I’m suddenly reminded of a time when I was a kid; I wandered into a small one next to a park, and a toad jumped onto my foot.
It scared the crap out of me, but it’s a fun memory. A happy one.
I want more of those.
Bracing myself to talk to Dominic, telling myself to be brave, I turn to my husband.
And our world explodes.
CHAPTER76
Dom
Everything rolls.
Upside down. Right side up. Upside down.
The crunching glass and bending metal sound quiet. Too quiet. Muted compared to the explosion that went off under the road.
The vehicle stops, the passenger side crunching against the ground a dozen yards away from where we started.
I don’t wait.
