He shut down his laptop and had stood when his phone vibrated.
I’m in! You’re a genius! Thanks!
He packed his laptop into his bag and locked the pool house door behind him.
The one thing that eased his conscience about all of this was knowing that by helping Gillian, he was helping to protect his family.
His daughter.
Hispack.
And if there was anything the last year had taught him, it was that he would doanythingto protect his pack.
Including kill.
So hacking into the computer system of a company run by the uncle of a notorious cartel leader he’d shot in his backyard?
Easy-peasy.
CHAPTERTHIRTY-NINE
Dewi
It washard for her to believe that a year ago she wouldn’t have been looking forward to adate.
With anyone.
And now? She was.
With hermate.
Mate date? Is that a thing? That could become a thing, right?
Letting the hot water pour over her, she closed her eyes and savored this. Yes, despite what most everyone else thought, shewastrying to “take it easy.”
She’d just finished drying off when Ken appeared in the bathroom. Dewi flashed him a smile. “Want me to come in and scrub your back?”
“You want to scrub my front, and if I let you do that right now, we’ll never make it out to eat.”
“Is that a bad thing?”
He wrapped his arms around her. “I really want to take you out to dinner,” he said. “Just the two of us. Won’t be long before our baby arrives. I want a little time alone with you so I can be selfish and have you to myself.”
Goddammit, she felt tears stinging her eyes and hated that it was probably in no small part due to her pregnancy hormones. “That’s sweet.”
He slanted a gentle kiss across her lips. “I can’t wait to meet our daughter, but when was the last time you and I went out to eat, alone, in a relaxing way?”
She thought about it.
And kept thinking.
A sexy smile quirked his lips. “Exactly.”
“I suppose you want me to wear a dress?” she teased.
He slipped around behind her, wrapping his arms around her, cupping her breasts and making her eyes drop closed. “Well, if you wear a dress, baby,” he murmured in her ear, “it’ll be easier for me to tease you on the way home.”
Gulp!“Okay!” she squeaked, making him chuckle in that throaty way she loved when he was feeling the good kind of dominant.
