“I’m not sure, baby doll. But I’m going to find out.”
“How?”
“You don’t need to worry about that. I’ll take care of it.”
“But—”
He pulled back and took my face between his hands. “You said you trust me?”
I nodded. I did. I trusted him more than anyone.
“Then let me deal with this.”
“But what if you get hurt?”
“I have very good motivation to keep myself safe,” he murmured, rubbing his thumbs across my cheeks.
Tears flooded my eyes, and I blinked them back. “You even look handsome when you’re blurry.”
He laughed low. “Hazard?”
“Hmm?”
“Your name is not all you have. You are so many things that it both amazes and scares the shit out of me.”
“What things?” I asked.
“One day, I’m going to make you a list. A long list that I will never stop adding to. Until then, you will just have to believe me when I say you are everything I thought went extinct in this world. You are more than most people will ever be.”
“Wow.”
He made a soft sound. “Yeah. Wow.”
“Trust me, okay?”
I nodded.
He leaned in, lips like the brush of butterfly wings—playful and brief but unforgettable. “You have me now too, little hazard,” he vowed, a hard edge glinting in his eyes. “And I will do whatever it takes to keep you safe.”
CHAPTER
TWENTY
Kieran
I was going soft. Looking at me now, no one would ever believe I was the most sought-after hitman in this entire country.
Letting Haz give out my number, holding the phone to his ear so he could use it when pain haunted his expression. There were plants in my sink for chrissakes. They mocked me with their dirt the entire time I made breakfast.
He called me a bad plant daddy. I didn’t know what that was, but I felt insulted.
Fucking soft.
And to make it worse, Ghost was there to witness all of it. I’d never hear the end of it. I could change the locks, but that wouldn’t keep him out. No, I’d have to be blunt and tell him to get out and never come back.
“Is there anything else you didn’t tell me about yesterday? Even if it seems like nothing, I want to know,” I asked, fighting past the disgust I had with myself to focus on what was important.
Keeping Hazard alive.
