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His eyes bounced up, landing back on the walls. “What is this, Daisy?”
I turned toward him and placed my hands on his chest.
“Where we belong.” I smiled. “I help run things from here, but it’s your club, so I wanted you to have your own desk, your own space. I wanted you to know you’re not alone. I’m in this with you. I’m here. Standing next to you or waiting at home while you deal with things in the club that I can’t witness. Whatever and wherever this club takes you, I’m in it with you. I’ll hold things down while you’re gone and help carry them while you’re here.”
His eyes glittered as he tucked a piece of hair behind my ear.
Then, so soft it nearly broke me, he whispered, “you belong and forever will be in here.” He moved my hand over his heart. “No matter where we go or what we do. You’re it for me, Laura Witt. One day that will change to Laura Quinn, and then we’re going to have kids.”
“Yeah?” A tear slid down my cheek.
His lips lightly brushed against mine. “Yeah.”
I sank into the feeling of hope, and I chose to cling to it.
“Tell me why you erase them instead of drawing.”
His soft chuckle reverberated through my chest.
Eyeing one of his pieces of art that resembled a daisy, he let out a sigh.
“You can’t fuck up something you erase, you can only fuck up something you create. I learned how to perfect the skill of avoidance.”
I swatted his chest playfully because that’s exactly what he’d done with us.
“Why didn’t you come to me after you told me to come back?”
We settled in one of the chairs, Killian pulled me into his lap.
“Similar reason. I hadn’t started anything with you officially, no matter how badly I wanted you. Didn’t want to create something and fuck it up. Simon wanted me to focus on taking the club over, and had explained I needed to make sure I was without distraction. You became a piece of paper covered in graphite in my mind. I’d slowly erase pieces of you as I could, until I was able to see the entire picture.”
I thought that over. “You were afraid.”
He hummed, kissing my back where that tattoo rested, under my shirt.
“I was fucking terrified, Daisy. Nearly lost you too…but once it was time to step into this role, I was sure I could just toss you out of my mind. Not peel back any layers at all and discover what could have been. But then you got drunk that night in my truck, and you revealed your cards when you asked to touch me. I realized it was what I’d been waiting for.”
“For me to jump you?” I scoffed, shaking my head. Streaks of light poured in through the glass, making the plants and the glowing lights I had strewn up on my side of the room glow.
Killian stroked a hand up my back. “For you to claim me.”
I bent in for a kiss, but our mouths were hungry and our hands desperate.
Before long, Killian had slammed the office door shut and bent me over his desk.
With the sounds of our unraveling, I smiled, clenching the edge.
I was going to enjoy my life with Killian Quinn.
Every single day I’d push to remind him and myself of exactly where we belonged.
THIRTY-ONE
KILLIAN
ONE WEEK LATER
Church was too crowded.
