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Jennings who was sitting closest to the door let out a low whistle. “Speaking of…damn.”
All three ladies passed in front of the open doorway. Quaide’s stare locked with Dove’s.
“Fuck!” Clay jolted to his feet. Quaide could only imagine the things going through his friend’s head at seeing Lark looking completely different from her usual beautiful self.
“You guys are spooky.” Julius’s statement brought all three women’s attention on him. “Okay,that’seven spookier. You’re even giving me the same dirty look. Did y’all practice that before you came downstairs?”
“Yes,” they said in synchronization.
Quaide looked them over carefully. It felt kind of wrong to be hard as steel for Dove when she looked so much like her sister.
“We leave in thirty minutes,” Clay announced. “We don’t want to get there early.” He looked to Quaide and then Julius. “You two be ready to ride.”
“I’ve got Dove. You’ve got Lark.” He nodded at Clay. “Julius is with Rain. Jennings is bringing up the rear as lookout.”
“We have twenty-nine minutes. Dove?” Quaide tipped his head toward the door, indicating she should follow him through it.
The things she’d said to him upstairs still felt like a warm caress that never left his skin. He wasn’t sure when she began to think ofthemas a team, but he was grateful as hell for it. He loved this woman and he would fight for her the rest of his days. Every minute he would spend devoted to her happiness.
He led the way to the study. It was still messy as hell, with paneling and molding all over the floor, but now that he’d strummed her body and kissed her and dragged an orgasm from her, he felt as if the place had a special energy for the two of them. It was their place.
She looked around the space. When she moved her head, a lock of shorter hair framing her face swung against her cheek. He itched to brush it away, to cup her beautiful face and kiss her until she was soaking wet for him. Then he’d take her panties off her and slip them in his pocket as a reminder that they’d soon be together again.
Their separation wouldnotlast six weeks this time.
She looked at him. Her eyes were outlined by makeup that brought out the blue hue. “Do you remember when we talked about doing this? The renovation? It was a dream. We both thought it would never actually happen.”
He stepped closer to her but refrained from touching her. He didn’t want to muss her appearance, but on the flip side, that was theonlything he wanted to do.
“There was a lot we didn’t know about each other then.”
She issued a low laugh. “You didn’t even know where I lived, but still you conned my baby sister into letting you into my apartment.”
He leveled a pointed look at her.
Her lips tipped at the corners. “Okay, you’re right. She would have let in the bad guys. I always knew it.”
He reached out and caught hold of her hand. It was the only thing he couldn’t mar the appearance of. Her soft fingers tangled with his, tugging at his heart.
She tilted her face up. “What are the next steps for this room?”
“I’d like to make it my personal office, and it’s yours too if you want to use it.”
Her smile made her face light up with an angelic glow. “You actually want to work with me again?”
With a yank on her hand, he pulled her to him. Despite her looking so much like Rain, she still smelled like the Dove he knew. “I want everything with you. I want to hear your voice first thing when I wake up in the morning, all day long and the last thing before I go to sleep.”
Her eyes glimmered with emotion.
“I never made my intentions clear before. But I’ve learned my lesson—and goddamn, was it a hard one. I can’t wait for everything to be planned out or in place. I’m not going to let you leave my side today without knowing how in love with you I am.”
She slid her fingers up to his jaw. “Oh, Quaide. Let’s find this person who’s after my sister so we can get on with our lives together.”
Nodding, he leaned in to kiss her. The initial brush of their mouths turned into so much more. He stroked his tongue over hers, pulling a quiet moan of need from her.
He hoped she knew how damn serious he was. His job—his life—meant nothing without her by his side.
“They’re at it again.” Rain’s voice broke through their passion, but Quaide swirled his tongue around Dove’s several more times before breaking the kiss.
