Page 20 of The Vigilante's Heart

I might have plans.

You don’t.

How do you know?

You’re plans now involve me, and for the next three days they involve my cock.

I feel myself blush and my damn pussy clenches in anticipation.Calm it down, girl, you’re in no fit state to be getting fucked.I swear Bennett’s piercings are imprinted on the walls of my pussy.

A commotion at the entrance steals my attention; I slip my phone back into my pocket and get back to work.

Bennett

The threat to Peyton might be gone, but she doesn’t know that, and that’s how I plan on keeping it. I want her with me, and while she thinks there might still be a risk when she’s on her own, she’ll stay with me. That’s exactly where I plan on keeping her, with me, forever.

I was determined to never put myself in a position of loving someone. I shut myself off emotionally after losing Rebecca, vowing to never experience that pain, that loss again. One look at Peyton and that all came crashing down. I might have tried to deny it to start with, to tell myself that I didn’t want a relationship, that she’d just piqued my interest, but I was lying to myself. She’s it for me. She’s the woman I’m going to spend the rest of my life with, the woman who will share my name, the woman who will bear my children.

I don’t just love her; love is too tame of a word for what I feel for her. I could survive losing someone I loved — it would hurt, I would grieve, but eventually I would move on — losing Peyton, however, would destroy me. She’s my lifeline, my oxygen, my reason for existence. She’s mine.

“You wanted to see me?” Tony says from the doorway of my office.

“Yeah, come in. It’s just a quick one. I’ll be away for the next three days. I’m going to need you to run things while I’m gone.” His eyebrows raise at my words, not that I can blame him, he’s worked for me for eight years and I’ve never taken time away. “I’ll be unreachable, so you’ll be in charge of everything.” I have no doubt he’ll be fine. Hell, I could hand him the company today and he wouldn’t come across anything he couldn’t handle.

“Everything okay?”

“Everything’s perfect. I’m taking Peyton out on the boat.”

“You’ve never taken a woman on the boat before.” The surprise is clear in his voice.

“I hadn’t met the right one before.”

“Well, shit. I never thought I’d see the day. Bennett Miller has been brought to his knees by a woman.”

“I’ll gladly get on my knees for her, but she tends to get on them for me.” I smirk at him as a reminder of Peyton taking me down her throat flashes through my mind. His laughter follows him out of my office.

***

Yeah, that’s the next one.I’m in the parking lot of the hospital waiting for Peyton’s shift to finish and I’ve just confirmed my latest victim. He’ll be gone as soon as I get back from the boat, nobody preys on the elderly in my city. There’s a certain type of individual that targets the vulnerable and it’s not someone that I’m going to let walk the streets for much longer.

My gaze snags on the vision walking through the sliding doors and towards the car. She really is fucking stunning. I don’t deserve her, she’s too good, too kind, too fucking sweet, but there’s not a chance in hell I’m letting her go.

“Sorry I’m a bit late,” she says as she climbs into the car.

“You’re fine, I got some bits finished off in the car.”

“Meow,” comes from the back seat.

“What in the world?” Peyton exclaims as she whirls around to take in D’Artagnan in his carrier.

“We’re going away for a few days.”I’m not sure how the cat is going to fare on a boat, guess we’re going to find out.

“And you brought D’Artagnan?”

“Well, I could hardly leave him behind.”

“Where on earth are we going?”

“It’s a surprise.” I pull out of the parking lot and towards where my boat is docked. It’s about a forty-five minute journey — forty-five minutes which I plan to use to find out even more about the woman next to me.