“Sounds like you’re looking forward to it. Are you dying to go back to your sordid bachelor days?” I tease.
“Fuck no. You’ve ruined me. Now that I know what it’s like to have you, I never want to go back to that.”
“So, I guess I’m secure for the next three years.”
Asher pinches my side, and I yelp. “At this point, I don’t know that I can ever let you go. I think I’m going to have to make you mine in every way possible.”
I lift my head and raise my brow at his meaning. “In what kind of ways, Mr. Langford?”
He smirks. “Legally.” He lifts my hand to his mouth and nibbles on my finger.Thatfinger.
I shake my head in disbelief, butterflies leaping inside me.
“I think I can get behind that.”
“But only once we’re through this mess. I won’t risk it until then.”
“Then we’ll just have to get through it as quickly as possible.”
Asher smirks again. “Are you in a hurry, Ms. Hale?”
“To be yours, and for you to be mine in every way? You bet I am, Mr. Langford.”
I gasp in surprise as Asher yanks his T-shirt that I’m wearing off my head.
“I think I need you at least one more time tonight, just to make sure this isn’t a dream,” he growls, taking my breast in his mouth.
He’ll get no arguments from me.
18
ASHER
“Ready?” Robert asks with a tightening of his jaw as Declan and I climb into the back of my car.
“Ready.”
We have a visit to pay. I should be heading back to my penthouse after a long day, but what’s been set in motion is ready, and I won’t lose out on this opportunity. Just as the car takes off Sterling texts me.
I’ve spotted Yegor.
Where?
He’s back in Moscow. I got some photos of him leaving a hospital. His face looks pretty fucked.
It was. Serves the bastard right. I’m only sad it didn’t kill him.
Well, the explosives in our watches aren’t made for that. They’re made for escape, which worked, thank fuck.
I need a team in there ASAP. I want him gone.
That’s the thing, he’s in Moscow, but he isn’t staying still. He’s been in three different locations in a matter of a week. He knows you’re coming after him, and he’s on the run. We haven’t heard the last from him, but he’ll be lying low for the next little bit while he heals and regroups.
I don’t want him to get the chance to do either of those things.
I know, but as I said, he’s a slippery fucker. Even I’m having a hard time tracking him. But I’ll keep on it.
Do whatever is necessary.
