Total pages in book: 77
Estimated words: 72647 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 363(@200wpm)___ 291(@250wpm)___ 242(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 72647 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 363(@200wpm)___ 291(@250wpm)___ 242(@300wpm)
He was upset for her about what her father had done, but he rather thought it had proved a point. “Baby, if a man is too afraid to date you because your father and brother threaten him, he doesn’t want you enough. I need you to understand absolutely no one in this world can keep me away from you except you. If you don’t want me, I’ll walk away, but you’re the only one who can make me. There’s no threat, no incentive, nothing can control me with the exception of you.”
“How can you know you want me?”
“Do you want me?”
Tears dripped from her eyes. “So much it hurts.”
He pulled her close. “And how can you know?”
“Because I always have,” she whispered. “Because I knew what I was doing when I put on Kenzie’s mask. I was going to steal a night from you.”
He chuckled, a warm feeling invading his bones. This was so much more than lust. This was the reason his dad lit up when his mum walked in a room. He couldn’t imagine the demons his father must have fought, the ones that made him walk away from this feeling. He wasn’t making the same mistake. He cuddled her against his chest. “Sorry, love. Your plan is not going to work out.”
She seemed to give in, relaxing against him. “You better be sure, Carter, because you’re right. When I’m in, I’m in. And when the whole stupid assassins are after me thing is over, I’m going to find a job I love and you can move into my house and… I still don’t know what to do about my da.”
“Your da is being an idiot.” Of this he had zero worries. Liam O’Donnell was scared of losing his daughter. He would figure this out. “And he’ll come around. He’s a smart man. Your mum is already cool with this.”
“My mum loves you,” she said quietly.
“I know it doesn’t seem like it, but your da does, too. Liam has been a solid figure in my life since I was a baby. His world is getting rocked right now, but he’ll see this is for the best in the end.” He breathed her in. There was such peace here. Daisy was a storm, but like a storm she was necessary, and the world felt fresh and new. “I promise you, this won’t last. He adores you, but change is hard. Aidan’s already on board. There’s no way your father doesn’t see this relationship is good for both of us. Until then, we should enjoy being alone. How many new couples get this kind of time together?”
She turned her head up, her lips curling in a sexy smile. “So what you’re saying is me getting on an assassin’s hit list is actually a good thing.”
His girl could turn a frown upside down. “My dick thinks so.”
That smile turned brilliant. “So you’re all in?”
In the end it was the easiest decision he’d ever made. “I’m all in, love.”
“And you’re okay with what it means for me to be all in.”
Oh, she could bring it on. Being with Daisy would mean danger at every corner. Or at least mischief. But then he’d complained about life being boring. “I told you. I love your winds, Typhoon. I guess I should call you a hurricane since I’m here now.”
She sat up, throwing a leg over his waist and sliding her core right over his cock. “Then you should know, I have some making up to do. Saint Daisy needs to get a little dirty, baby.”
He held on as the storm started all over again.
Chapter Ten
Nate woke the second his phone buzzed. He’d connected it to the security system the night before. Any disruption would send an alert.
Someone had turned off the alarm and then reset the sucker in under thirty seconds.
He’d been plain. Anyone coming in or out of Sanctum when the club wasn’t open was supposed to send him notification. There had been no notifications.
So either the elders were testing him or they had an assassin who happened to know the ever-changing code to the security system at Sanctum. One of those was hard to believe, and the other not at all surprising.
He should have expected it. He’d heard rumors about all the bodyguards getting wild tests of their skills when they signed on at McKay-Taggart. He was literally guarding one of the founder’s beloved daughters. There was zero chance they wouldn’t try to fuck with him and prove he couldn’t do it.
Daisy shifted in bed when he moved away from her, like she was a heat-seeking missile. It was dark without the light from his phone, but the illumination coming from the jukebox gave everything a low glow. Yeah, there was an old-school jukebox. He hadn’t played anything off of it because it was all old stuff, but it had been exactly the right height to fuck Daisy against.