Page 50 of Love’s Strongest Soldier

“No.”

“Please. I just want to hear you say it.”

“Get out my office, Ghost.”

He laughed as he grabbed my purse off the desk and slung it over his shoulder. I stared at him.

“Why you insist on carrying my purse like that? I’d think you were gay if you wasn’t putting that dick on me.”

“Because you carry enough.”

My expression softened before I could stop it. He did that shit all the time. Said things that made me forget every reason I had ever given myself for keeping my heart locked away.

I walked over to him, wrapped my arms around his waist, and tilted my head back.

“I love you.”

His entire face changed. Like those three little words were something he still couldn’t believe belonged to him. He set my purse down, cupped my cheeks, and pressed his forehead against mine.

“I love you more, babe,” he whispered.

I shook my head. “Impossible.”

He kissed me. Not one of those quick little kisses he gave me when he was trying to get on my nerves. This one was slow. Deliberate. The kind that made my knees forget their purpose. When he pulled away, I chased his mouth.

He chuckled.

“C’mon, greedy. I’m hungry.”

“You’re always hungry.”

“And you always got something smart to say. That’s why we’re perfect.”

If somebody had told me a few months ago that I would be standing in my office, laughing like a lovesick teenager with a man younger than me, I would’ve told them to get the fuck out of my face. Yet, here I was. Happy. So happy that it scared me sometimes.

Ghost grabbed my hand and intertwined our fingers.

“Ready?”

I nodded. “Take me home.”

He kissed my knuckles, and we left out the office.

The parking garage was nearly empty when we stepped off the elevator. Ghost walked slightly ahead of me, his eyes doing that familiar sweep of our surroundings. Even when he wasn’t working, he was working.

“Babe, relax,” I told him.

He glanced back.

“I am relaxed.”

“You look like you’re about to arrest somebody.”

“Depends. You planning on committing a crime?”

“I’m considering murdering my bodyguard.”

He flashed me a smile.