Page 81 of The Bodyguard
“Is this really happening?” I whispered. I was afraid if I was too loud I would wake myself from this dream I was in. I didn’t want to wake up.
He leaned down, careful again not to disturb a sleeping Romeo, and kissed me. And it was like he said, the thing that had died in me the day I walked out of his house, suddenly it was back beating in my chest.
“Seriously,” Bea squawked. “Are you kidding me? Garrett Pine you leave me no choice. Because my sister is obviously addicted to you and can’t help herself. So I’m going to have to take a baseball bat to your thick skull.”
I laughed as Bea stood there with two Starbucks cups in her hands and a look of murder on her face.
“It’s okay,” I said. “Turns out he loves me.”
“I do. Even though I know for a fact I’m not good enough for you.”
“We’ll have to see about that,” I said, and he kissed me again.
“Well I’m not hanging around here all day to watch you two make dove eyes at each other. One cup is Sabrina’s concoction, and the other cup is black. Have fun.”
“I plan to,” Garrett said, except he was giving me that look. That look that said he wanted to eat all of me.
“And watch her feet,” Bea said.
“They’ll be fine,” he called out to her as she left. “No harm will come to them when they’re draped over my shoulders.”
“Garrett!”
“Let’s go, future Mrs. Pine. I told my deputy he’s in charge for the day. If I couldn’t get you to listen to me, Plan B was to sex you into forgiving me. I’ve decided we’ll do that anyway.”
He took Romeo off my chest and settled him into his cat bed, and then he did exactly as he’d stated and gave me enough orgasms to make me forget the last week ever happened.
And my feet never touched the bed once.
* * *
SABRINA
The King’s Land—The Next Day
“You know, I used to think I hated this place, but it’s kind of growing on me,” I said to Garrett as we approached The King’s Land.
“Will you miss it very much?”
I looked over at Garrett. We had spent the day in Clayton’s condo, but I’d received a direct order from Ronnie to return as soon as possible so I could update her on our relationship progress. Given the love bites I was gleefully sporting, it wasn’t going to be too hard to figure out what we had been doing all day yesterday.
“Nope. Because you know what your place will have that this big old house doesn’t? You. And that’s all I need.”
He growled under his breath. “Stop being sweet. I’m going to want you again and I swear, after the fuck fest we had yesterday I thought it would be at least three days before I could get hard again.”
I giggled and then I reached into my Kate Spade cat purse to give Romeo a cuddle.
“You shouldn’t talk like that in front of the baby.”
Garrett parked and came around to pick me up. My feet were better, but if I walked on them I broke open the scrapes and they started bleeding again.
Once inside I called out. “Hey, everyone I’m home.”
“Oh, thank goodness,” Ronnie said, coming out of the ballroom into the living room. “I imagine they’ll be descending upon us again now that you’re back.”
Garrett set me down on the couch. “Who will be descending?”
“Well, I’m sure you two were too busy yesterday…uh, making up…to notice. But the story of your kidnapping was reported the night of the party, and of course all day yesterday was about your rescue. They find out you’re back here, they are going to want your story.”
