Page 125 of Savagely Yours
“He won’t.”
“Indulge me.”
“Fine. If he ever crosses a line, I’m telling.”
“Good girl.”
She laughed.
I stared at her, mesmerized by the sound.
“Everything okay?” she asked, smoothing my eyebrow with her thumb.
“Yeah. You’re just...I don’t know if you’ll ever see yourself the way I see you. I don’t know if anyone will ever see you the way I see you. That’s actually what made me realize I was falling for you. Every single version of my future I saw, you were there. Every…single…one.”
She pressed her face into my chest. “Dez, no. Don’t say stuff like that. The butterflies will eat me alive.”
“Oh, sorry.” I rubbed her stomach. “Better?”
“Worse. So much worse.”
I smiled.
“By the way, I love my ring.” She held it up to catch the last bit of sunlight. “And with you, Gage, Julien, Omar, Memphis, and Dallas, I feel a thousand times safer here than I ever did inside Totten’s walls.”
“That’s because we’re all insane.”
“Omar seems levelheaded.”
“On the outside, I’m sure I seem that way, too.”
“Touché.”
I kissed her temple.
“Dez, if things continue this way, can we stay?”
“Of course,” I said, without hesitation. “Whatever you want, that’s what we’ll do.”
“I’m not sure yet how I’ll contribute, but I’ll find something. Gage said they were thinking of creating a system for vetting newcomers.”
“You’d be the best person for it.”
“You’re only saying that because you think I’m awesome.”
“Two things can be true.” I kissed her hair, her eyebrows, the space between them. “Youareawesome, and you’re brilliant. Seems like my brothers and I have a type.”
“You’re brilliant yourself.”
I pulled her on top of me so her legs straddled my waist.
“And it would be nice to settle somewhere long term,” she went on. “Plus, they have a doctor. Nurses. A school. Your family’s here, so we would have support.”
I massaged her thighs. “Support?”
“I mean, not right now, obviously, but…if things stay this way…there’s a possibility that we could do it safely.”
“You mean sex? Sweetheart, you can trust me when it comes to safe sex. I promise.”
