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“Yea, I know that.”
Her big blue eyes blink slowly as she stares at me. “Okay, do you want to tell me what this one unlocks?”
“Your new house.” Well, I am hoping it will be ours.
A furrow forms in her forehead. “You’ve lost me.”
“I haven’t. You aren’t going anywhere.” I grin.
She laughs, my favorite sound, and the limo goes quiet for a second.
Tapping my fingers on my knee to distract myself from my heart pounding.
“The house you had your heart set on when we first came to Vegas,” I proclaim proudly.
“That one that sold before Mikhail could buy it and the new buyers we’re adamant not to sell?”
I nod.
It crossed my mind a couple of years ago just to kill them in their sleep and then buy it, but I was too busy to pull that off.
“Well, turns out recently they wanted to move.”
Her eyebrow raises, as if she read my mind.
Yes, I may have put in place some circumstances where they may not have felt safe anymore.
“And I bought it.” I pause, tugging on my now seemingly tight collar. “For you, or for us?” I whisper in her ear.
She looks down at the key and I can see her eyes start to water.
Fuck, did I mess this up?
“It doesn’t have to be for me, too,” I say quietly.
She shakes her head. “I want to live there with you. When?”
I glance over and Nikolai and Mikhail, both deep in conversation and I swallow. After all these years, I still don’t know how they would react.
I expect Nikolai will be mad at me. Mikhail not so much.
Lara can’t lose her relationship with them and neither can I. I can’t let that happen.
“Soon,” I reply. “It needs some work. We will make it perfect.”
It’s all I can give her for now.
I squeeze her knee, knowing she needs the reassurance. Her mind is racing. I can sense it.
“I’m all in, baby. Never question that.”
She doesn’t look at me as she puts the key in her purse.
“Me too,” she whispers back, placing her hand over mine.
“Are you going to tell me where we are going?” She bats her lashes at me for full effect.
My leg is bouncing with excitement. I can’t wait to see her face when she walks in and sees what I’ve done.
