Page 140 of Indecent Lies

“I’m fine, baby. Bring that mouth here.” He all but growled but she held him off.

“Take the jacket off, Tait. Let me see what’s not hurting you.”

He sighed but he slid it off and she saw the bandage around the top of his arm.

Instantly alarmed, she demanded to know what happened.

“No lies, remember,” she reminded him.

He told her every frightening, terrifying detail and the more she heard, the greater her belly tightened to know how much danger he’d faced.

Unsure if she’d taken a breath in the last few minutes, she cupped the sides of his neck just to stop her fingers from shaking.

“Are you in trouble with the police?”

“Unsure. I gave them a statement.”

“Oh, Tait. I could have lost you.”

Tears came.

A lot of tears.

He held her on his lap while she cried and thought of this new life of hers without this wonderful man in it.

“No more guns,” she declared in between wiping her nose and Tait brushing her tears away. “No more heroics, you leave that to the police, Tait. I mean it, you can only be my hero.”

He grinned and her heart swelled.

He was here and he was safe.

He would be able to eat her burned cookies.

She wanted to cry again just from how close she came to losing him but his mouth stopped her by kissing her hard.

“Bed, Poppy. Your hero needs to fuck you now.”

Poppy would worry later; she’d worry her freaking socks off because people getting shot at and injured just wasn’t something she was used to.

But her man needed her and there was nowhere else, nothing more important than that.

She felt Tait’s mouth on her neck the next morning, and his hand sliding into the front of her panties even before she was fully awake.

They’d had each other in desperate ways all night long in between quiet face to face talking. So much talking and sharing secrets.

She’d even broached the one she most dreaded.

“Why Addison?” She’d asked.

He’d taken a while to answer. “That was a long time ago.”

“You don’t want her?”

“No.”

“Not even if she wasn’t Malachai’s wife?”

“Not even then.”