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They know what they’re doing, and they’ll come up with a way for us to get out of this.
And if they don’t… maybe then I’ll have to risk everything and take matters into my own hands.
I just really fucking hope it doesn’t come to that.
* * *
“Hey, baby,” JD says softly, poking his head into the room a few hours later.
Kristie has thankfully fallen asleep and is peaceful again. As much as I want to think that everything will be better when she wakes, I know it won’t.
“Hey,” I say sadly.
“I have coffee,” he says, walking over with two mugs in his hands.
“Thanks.”
“Up you go,” he demands when he’s closed the space between us.
Unable to do anything but follow his orders, I uncurl my legs and stand.
He immediately takes my place and waits for me to sit back down.
“Mmm, that’s better.” He groans, handing me a mug the second I’m in place.
“Thank you,” I whisper, hugging the mug in my palms and lifting it to my lips to blow across the surface.
“How are you holding up?”
“Meh,” I say, not having the energy to try to lie to him. “She’s been bad since we got back here.”
“Wish I could take it away for both of you,” he says softly.
I take a sip of my coffee as his words flow through me, quickly followed by Reid’s rich coffee.
“I love you, Julian Dempsey.”
His eyes shutter at my words before he leans forward and brushes his nose along my jaw.
“I’ll never get used to hearing you say that.”
“You’re going to have to because it’s true.”
His warm breath rushes over my neck and sends a shiver racing down my spine.
“Good. I never want to stop hearing it. I love you too,” he says before kissing a trail of wet kisses down my neck.
“Have you found anything yet?”
“No, not yet. But Reid has a team out searching for clues. It’ll only be a matter of time.”
“That would be reassuring if we hadn’t been searching for Dad and Victor for this long.”
“Yeah,” he agrees sadly. “So Mav’s a dad, huh?” he comments, making my stomach knot.
We still haven’t talked about my confession about not being able to have kids. But I remember his expression all too well.
“In a way, yeah.”
