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Her hazel eyes search mine. “From start to finish, I have bungled and botched my way to get to this point, and now my father could be dead. We have a man who doesn’t know me trying to erase our families from history and go full scorched earth. And for what? Because I wasn’t satisfied with my life?” She shakes her head. “It is entirely my fault, and everything I've done is a mistake. Except for you. I will never regret a single moment we spent together.”
“Even if it’s on video?” I swallow hard, my Adam's apple bobbing painfully.
“I’ve always wanted to make a sex tape.” Her joke is weak at best, but I let out a chuckle.
“I don’t regret it either,” I reply. “Not if it means I got to be with you before we both die.”
“That’s not funny.” Her eyebrows draw down.
“I don’t mean it to be funny.” I toss the gun to the floor, uncaring where it lands, and haul her forward. “I’m serious. There’s a good chance we’re not going to make it out of this, and I need you to know you’re special to me.”
She does her best to hide her smile. “Are you trying to tell me that you have feelings for me?”
I wince at the word, feelings. “I’m not good at this. I never have been. I’m only good at empty promises,” I reply.
Her gaze slides over me in a physical caress. To my surprise, she winks at me. “You’ve tried with me. I know you’ve done your best.”
My best is not nearly fucking good enough. “What wouldn’t I do for you? Staying away from you has been the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life,” I state.
“Then why did you?”
“Too many reasons to tell you about.” And it’s not an invitation for her to pry forward. I take a step away from her to drive the point home.
“You were scared?” she asks, following me.
Damn the woman.
“I don’t deserve you, Iz. Not by a million years, and if I had this lifetime to do over. I will never deserve you.”
She loops her arms around the back of my neck, evaporating the distance between us in a heartbeat. “How about you let me be the judge of what I deserve. I’ve chosen you from the moment I looked at you, Ricardo, and the connection we have isn’t just real. It’s rare,” she tells me honestly. “I’d like to use the next bit of time before we’re called to action to celebrate what life we’ve got left. If that’s how the day will play out.”
“Learning to handle a different type of weapon?” I ask with a sneer. “I will gladly let you practice on me.”
She tips her head back and laughs loudly. “Only an egomaniac like you would call your dick a weapon.”
Maybe it’s not such a bad thing to love her. Not a bad thing at all. I dip my head to capture her lips, stealing her breath with the kiss. Maybe it’s not so bad to live my life protecting Isabella. I’ll be whatever kind of man I need to be in order to get her out of this. For as long as we have.
This time, the kisses are sweet and tender. A slow straining toward each other and I let out a dark laugh when her teeth graze my lower lip.
Not a mistake.
It’s never been a mistake between us.
A low, purring moan vibrates her chest against mine as she reaches to shove the jacket off of my shoulders. Followed by the shirt. She breaks the kiss only long enough to handle the buttons before the fabric drops to the floor.
I navigate her toward the bed, smiling when she reverses our position and pushes me down. Straddling me with her hot core pressed against mine.
The second time I’ve had her today, and still I want more. There isn’t enough time for us to do all the things I want to do to her but this, this moment, it’s enough. It has to be enough.
I pinch her nipple in my fingers and rear back to gauge her reaction, loving the way her eyes narrow. Grow darker yet until they are liquid pools where I lose myself. Her breath catches in her throat as I inch a little harder to see how far she’ll let me go. Rather than tell me to stop, she arches into me.
“Touch me everywhere,” she whispers.
There’s only Isabella. From this point on, every day forward, I know I’ll need her like the air I breathe.
“I don’t deserve you,” I repeat.
“And if you keep saying it, you’ll force me to show you exactly how wrong you are.” She reaches for me and draws me to her for a sweet kiss. Then she shifts to standing, staring down at me before she drops to her knees.
