Of course, my Silver wanted a family. After she’d lost so much of it.
I relaxed and her eyes widened as she felt my response.
“Do you?”
“Honestly?” I caressed her cheek with my knuckles. “I never thought a family was in my future. I never let myself dream about it. Until you.”
“Really?”
“Before the marines, before MI6 … I used to think about meeting the right person and having kids with her. Creating a family for myself again after losing mine.”
Silver pressed a slow kiss to my chest over my heart.
“I … I don’t talk about it a lot. Losing my parents. Because it’s hard. Everything I’ve been through and the terrible things I’ve seen people do … and losing them is still the worst thing I’ve ever experienced.”
Emotion trembled on her lips, and I knew she understood better than anyone.
“I don’t talk about them a lot and that’s the way it is.” I gave her a squeeze so she knew it wasn’t because I didn’t trust her.
Silver nodded in understanding.
“Giving up the idea of making a family for myself again was one of the hardest sacrifices I made for the job.”
She pushed up, resting her chin on her hand on my shoulder. “And now?”
“It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the thought.” I gently pushed her onto her back, smoothing her hair away from her gorgeous face. “But I’d want that with you. I see that with you. You. Me. Kids.”
“Akiva.” Silver grinned, biting her lip in that fucking adorable way of hers.
So happy.
She looked so happy.
It was difficult to believe I was the reason.
“And Akiva.”
“So, kids … yes?”
I nodded, heat flooding through me as I slipped my hand between us to tease her pussy. “We’ll have a lot of fun trying too.”
She gasped, arching into my touch. “When we’re ready. I want you all to myself for a while.”
I kissed her in savage possessiveness I kept on a tight leash, pushing my fingers into her snug, wet heat. My want for this woman had never dulled, only grown exponentially, and I wondered if it would always be like this. Or if it would eventually ease into something that felt more manageable to bear.
As I settled between her legs, as she opened to me, I thought,Fuck being able to bear it. This uncontrollable want was the best fucking thing I’d ever?—
An alarm blared from behind the wall, jerking us apart.
Disbelief coursed through me.
Silver’s eyes were round with uncertainty. “What is that?”
“My perimeter sensor alarm.” I rolled off her and hit the wall light. The door to the hidden room opened and the motion sensor lights blared to life along with my monitors.
“Ramsay, what is going on?” I could sense Silver in the doorway.
“I have perimeter sensors set all over the island. Except at the crossing, though I have a camera there. If someone gets on my island from a less conspicuous point, I’ll know.” I clicked through the camera images of nighttime on Stòr. There was nothing at the main crossing because the tide was in.
