Page 109 of When He Fights
Time picked up again.
“OhmyGod!”Zuri shuddered.“He’s…he’s dead, isn’t he?Dead.” There was horror in her voice.And relief.
Ana understood.She felt the same way.Horrified.Relieved.Scared to the soles of her feet.And…Her gaze darted back to Kane.
He was watching Logan.Not moving.
He fired first.
She would have bet her life on that fact.
“No choice,”Gray announced to everyone and to no one.Just saying the words.“Couldn’t let the man fire that gun at a crowd.Federal agent in the ambulance should have damn well known better than to have an unsecured weapon back there.Hell, IthoughtLogan was restrained.Thought he was down for the count.You severed his Achilles tendon, for shit’s sake.Not like he could go running off with that kind of injury.”
Logan would never be running anywhere again.Kane knew his bullet had torn its way into Logan’s heart.He’d always been a little faster on the trigger than Gray.
“It was mine,” Tyler said from beside him.“My bullet took him out.”
“The hell it did,” Kane denied.“It was mine.”
“Bullshit,” Gray called.“Even basically one-handed, I fired faster than both of you bastards.It was my bullet.I’m sure of it.”
Tyler shrugged.“We don’t miss,” he noted simply.“None of us.”A pause.“Ana is safe now.No more running.No more hiding.She gets her life back.”
Logan’s body had been loaded into the back of the ambulance.Was someone doing chest compressions on him?Cute, but that wasn’t going to help.
“What do you think she’s gonna want to do with that life?”Tyler asked.
Before Kane could answer, Ana was there.She threw her body against his.Ignored the gun he held.Ignored the men next to him.She wrapped her arms around him, and she held him in a fierce grip.
“Yep,” Tyler sighed.“That’s pretty much what I thought she’d do.Invite me to the wedding, will you?My Esme loves a wedding.”
Ana wasn’t turning away because of the violence Kane carried.She wasn’t afraid of him.Wasn’t desperate to get away.Instead, she’d strangled a man with harp strings in order to help Kane.
And now, the monster from her past was dead.
Ana tilted her head back.She stared straight up at Kane, and she told him, “I love you.”
His friends were watching him.Hell, reporters might be pulling up now, too.So much for keeping the scene under wraps.But Logan was dead.There would be no more need for secrets when it came to Ana.
And Kane wasn’t going to hold back with her.Not ever again.When she’d gone through that door at her house…
Dammit, Ana, that had not been the plan!
His heart had stopped.
His world had stopped.
I’d live and die for you, Ana.I’d kill for you, too.
He had, in fact.
“I love you, too,” he told her.
Ana smiled at him.A big, beautiful grin that lit her eyes.“I know.”
He bent to kiss her because, yes, she did know.The woman knew everything about him now.No secrets.No lies.She knew all of his dark places.And she loved him still.
He was one lucky SOB.
