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“You’ll love this baby just as much as Mary.”
I nod again.
“And when he or she is here, I’m going to fill you again and again,” he swears, his left hand planting in my hair. Fisting it at the back of my neck, he tilts my head as he wants. “We’re going to fill that house with love and laughter. Forever,” he says against my lips.
I want this just as much as he does. Ajax was right before. I’m made for this family. I’m made for him.
“Forever,” I promise.
EPILOGUE
Ajax
My phone lights up, the security alarm screaming. I snatch it off the workbench and pull up the cameras.
Someone’s on my property.Not for fucking long.
I grab the landline and dial for the main house. No answer. My anxiety kicks up a notch. Lulu is alone and at home with Mary.
The figure sneaks through the trees, avoiding the cameras that run along the dirt road leading to the house. I look around my work shed. There’s only one thing to do.
Go hunting.
Excitement and trepidation course through me like a life force pushing me to run quicker.
Terror pumps in my blood. After everything wewent through to get Lulu to willingly stay, after everything that I did, I’m not losing her now.
No one is taking my family.
Jumping, I grab a thick branch and pull myself onto higher ground. I’m to the left of my house, next to the shed we use as a garage. I have a direct line of sight to my intruder.
I eye the tree line behind the intruder, but everything remains calm. No one else is here.
The weight of my bow comforts me as I ready the arrow. The world falls away when I have my prey in my crosshairs.
Three, two, one.
The arrow whizzes through the air, puncturing the target through the right shoulder. The force of it makes them fly back into the dirt driveway. A pained cry echoes out.
The fact that the threat is neutralized doesn’t calm me.What the fuck is she doing at my house?
I jump down from my perch and check my camera. She’s alone.
“Agent Collins,” I greet, stopping by her feet.
Lulu chooses that moment to rush out of the house. “What was that scream?”
“Nothing to worry about,” I reassure my wife.
She runs closer, gasping at the sight on our drive. “Oh my God. Ajax!” she cries, panicked.
“It’s fine,” I promise, stopping her advance with one hand on her back and the other on her belly.
Agent Collins laughs, the sound gurgling as blooddribbles out the side of her mouth. “You’re both going to jail, and that kid of yours is going into care,” she pants.
Lulu covers her mouth, and horrified eyes find mine.
“Over my dead body,” I swear. Keeping my eyes on Lulu, I press my boot down on Collins’s knee, forcing it to the side until I hear a satisfying crunch.
