“No, I—”
“I already passed.My certificate is in the mail,” she announces.
Her proud little smirk wrecks me in the best way.If her arms weren’t wrapped around me, I’d be kneeling at her feet, begging for the honor of worshipping her.
I steal a deep, drugging kiss and reluctantly pull my head away.
“You’re amazing, baby doll,” I say.
“I know, but you helped.Having a tutor was the best.”
She rises onto tiptoe and pecks me on the chin before turning serious.
“Now let’s talk dates and timelines.”
My phone chimes with a sound I set for specific alerts.
I shift her from my front to my side, lean down to the coffee table, pick up the remote, and turn the television to the news channel.
Donald Diamond’s pompous expression fills the screen, but as the camera zooms out, the chaos around him looks straight out of a movie.
With his wrists cuffed behind his back, an FBI agent on each arm, and half a dozen other agents surrounding him, Donald walks through a gauntlet of reporters and angry citizens.The script rolling across the bottom of the screen provides a long list of alleged crimes he committed.
The wordallegedis probably the only thing keeping the bastard so stoic.He doesn’t know we have enough evidence to lock him in a maximum-security prison for several life sentences without parole.He’ll never be a free man again.
“Wait, what?This is right now?We should be there!Brennan, why didn’t you—”
“No, Audrey.He doesn’t deserve another second of our time.He’ll know we’re the masterminds soon enough,” I growl and tighten my arm around her.
She grinds her teeth and clenches her fist in my shirt at the small of my back.For a few minutes, she simply watches the screen and breathes.
“I wanted to spit in his eye and push him down a flight of stairs,” she snarls.
“Which is why we’re here and not there,” I say.
“You’re insufferable,” she says with a scowl.
“But not a monster?”I prod.
Her expression morphs to amusement.A wicked glint sparks in her eyes.
She presses her front to mine and curls her fingers into my shirt’s neckline.
“Yes, you’re a monster.My monster.My boss.My fiancé.Mine.Forever.”
She yanks me down by my collar and solidifies her place at the center of my universe with an epic, hungry kiss.I lift her off her feet and carry her to the couch.
With the news reporting on my father’s downfall, Audrey unlocks a new level of revenge; she fucks me senseless, giving me exponentially more than what he tried to force from her.
She forgives me for abandoning her.Punishes me for not finding her sooner.Pleasures me for refusing to let her go ever again.
She loves me, and I love her.
She’s my goddess.My baby doll.My wife-to-be.
Mine.
Always and only.
