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“She could have so easily been Kara’s baby, War. You weren’t wrong in wanting them found.”
His gaze searched mine, and I knew what he was looking for. A resurgence of the old Bliss. The timid mouse who’d let Caleb abuse her. The woman who would crumble under pressure.
He wasn’t going to find her here.
He crooked his finger at me. “Come ’ere.”
I leaned down, and he used the arm that wasn’t currently in a sling to reach up and run his fingers into the hair at the nape of my neck. He pulled me in so my lips were just above his.
“Gonna marry you one day, baby girl. Because fuck, I love you.”
I grinned and closed the gap between us. His lips were warm and familiar, and when he kissed me, my heart flooded with happiness.
I didn’t imagine I’d ever get a down-on-one-knee proposal from this man, and I didn’t need it. That was more Nash’s style.
Scythe and Vincent would probably slaughter something and leave it as a marital offering if they ever asked me.
This was all I needed from War. A promise that I was his forever.
But there was work to be done first.
I was going to make sure it got done.
14
VAUGHN
Sitting on the edge of the bed, I winced as I eased my boots off. Blood from my blisters had seeped through my socks, staining the thick white fabric with red splotches.
Kian glanced over at me from where he was quietly putting on his new work pants. “Ouch. You want a couple of Band-Aids?”
I held up the little packages I’d swiped earlier from downstairs. “Already got some.”
Kian leaned over to study my wounds more closely. “Keep them clean. The Slayers don’t need another person down in their infirmary. Maybe you should take today off.”
I ripped the top off the Band-Aid and stuck it over the worst of my blisters. “No. Rebel is still out there searching. So are Fang and all the others. I’m not going to sit around here and cry because I’m not used to traipsing through the woods and my shoes hurt.”
Kian took my chin between his fingers and lifted it so he could kiss my mouth. “I love your delicate rich-boy skin.”
I shoved him away but then thought better of it and dragged him back for a proper kiss. One with tongue and moans and pulling him down on top of me so I could feel how hard I got him with just my lips on his.
He rolled off me all too soon. “Can’t do this. Gotta go to work.”
I let him go, knowing he was right. “I hope your third day of work is as good as the first two.”
He grinned. “It will be. I hate I can’t be out there helping you all look for Kara’s baby and the women, but I’m loving this job.”
I crinkled my nose. “You seriously love digging holes and nailing stuff?”
“Not as much as I love nailing you, but yeah. I know you don’t get it, but then I don’t get how you can sit in an office all day, pushing papers around.”
I shrugged. “I don’t do much of that anymore.”
I missed it. I’d made mistakes with my business. Big ones that had resulted in filing for bankruptcy. But I’d been floating along aimlessly for too long. I needed to work out what I wanted to do with my life. Work out who the hell I was.
Fang had the MC. Rebel loved Psychos. Kian seemed content with his new job. It was just me without anything to fill my days. It was partially why I’d thrown myself into searching. Other people had jobs they had to go to.
Not me.
