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And just like he always does, he makes me laugh.Then I say, “I’m going to get more therapy.”
“No, I’ll stop highlining and just go back to basic slacklining.”
I shake my head while my heart explodes with love for this man.“I never want you to stop doing the things you love.The problem isn’t highlining.The problem is my trauma.I don’t think I’ve been ready to let it go before.Somehow, it was my brain’s safe place.It was easier staying stuck in a groove I already knew how to work with and how to manage.Stepping outside that feels hard, but I know I have to do that if I want to experience all that life has to offer me.”I take a breath.“We can’t stop living in case we die.”
Callan takes my face in his hands.His eyes are wild with emotion.“I love you and I am going to love you until the day I fucking die.”He doesn’t waste one more second before kissing me and showing me just how deeply he feels every word he just said.
I’ve got his face in my hands by the time our kiss ends and my body pressed so hard to his that it’s hard to know where we each end and begin.That has always been Callan and me; inseparable.“I love you more than you will ever know, Callan Black.”
He kisses me again.He kisses me for a long time, and somehow, we make it to the couch in his office.By the time we’ve had enough of each other, I’m sitting on his lap with his face where I think he will always prefer it, in between my breasts.Our clothes are still on but only just.I’m pretty sure Callan’s already making plans to get me naked.I mean, the man lives for my naked ass, so it’s a logical assumption.
“I bought you something.”I leave the couch to grab my purse off his desk.When I come back to him, he doesn’t allow me to sit anywhere but back on his lap.“Well, I bought both of us something.”
He watches while I retrieve two jewelry boxes from my purse.
“For our first fight,” I say as I hand him his box.
He arches a brow.“You want to remember this?”
“Yes.I want to remember that we got through it.That we found a way to put our love first and remembered how important we are to each other.”
He listens intently to what I say before murmuring, “We’re going to work at this.”
I nod and brush my lips over his.“Yeah, baby, we’re never going to stop working at this.I love you too much not to.”I lift my chin at his box.“Now, open your gift.”
“And there’s my bossy girl.”
We open our boxes together and I know by the expression on Callan’s face that he feels my gift in his soul.
“Here,” I say, “Let me put them on you.”
I take the cufflinks from the box and replace the ones he’s wearing with these.They’re silver and have a phoenix engraved on them.
Once they’re on him, I hold out the matching phoenix charm to him and he puts it on my bangle.
“Don’t take my other charm off.I want to see all our firsts every day.”
After he spends another half hour with his hands and mouth all over me, he says, “I’m going to need you to sit your ass on my desk.”
I give him a sexy smile.“And here I was thinking you’d prefer to bend me over your desk.”
“Trust me, you’ll be bent over it by the time I’m finished.But I want to start with my mouth on your pussy.”He smacks my ass when I don’t move immediately.“Liv.Don’t make me wait.I’m fucking done waiting.”
I stop making my man wait.
I sit my ass on his desk.
And for once, I let him be the boss of me.
30
OLIVIA
Three Weeks Later
“You’re the lawyer representing that asshole?”Callan says over the rim of his glass as he eyes Blair’s date at Rhodes’s and Sasha’s wedding.
Hunt shrugs.“Everyone deserves a defense.”
