Page 152 of Deathless & Divided

“Very,” he said, throwing her words back at her.

“You left the reception last night,” Lily said, deciding blurting the knowledge out was better than dancing around it.

Damian lifted a single brow, eyeing her quietly. “You noticed that, did you?”

“Nobody else seemed to.”

“They were very focused on you, gossiping about the nonsense going on in the Outfit, and the party,” Damian said. “I used that to my advantage and finished something.”

Lily’s heart raced. “Will you tell me?”

“I’ll tell you that I did a bad thing,” he said, shrugging.

And sometimes, good men did bad things.

Lily blew out a slow breath, willing her thoughts to calm. “Why?”

“I thought I knew,” Damian said.

Lily didn’t need him to finish. “But you didn’t know a thing.”

“No. And that was my fault.”

Well, then.

Lily reached out and intertwined their fingers together. Damian’s shoulders relaxed at the touch instantly. “I love you.”

Damian smiled. “I know. That’s the only thing that matters to me about any of this.”

“Is it?”

“Yeah,” he said.

She believed him.

“Don’t you think it’s a little annoying that we have to spend our first day after our honeymoon in church?” Lily asked.

Damian offered her a smile and slipped her hand inside his. “You just didn’t want to leave the hotel.”

Lily pouted. “Well, you spoiled me all week. What else do you expect, Damian? You created a monster.”

“Ah, I see how this works.”

“Hush,” Dino said behind the couple.

Lily skillfully flipped her older brother the middle finger without even breaking eye contact with the priest at the front. Damian chuckled, lifted Lily’s hand to kiss it, and then dropped their still connected hands into his lap.

“Bad girl,” he murmured.

“I’m better when I’m bad,” Lily said, grinning.

“You are.”

“Jesus,” Dino grumbled under his breath.

Lily didn’t give a damn what her brother had to say. She’d had a fantastic week with it being just her, Damian, a hotel room, and love. Best way she’d spent a week in a long time. The high was still buzzing around her senses. Dino wasn’t going to kill that.

Damian tugged Lily to stand when the priest asked. Her husband swept his finger over her wedding band as the congregation was blessed one final time and then dismissed for the day. Sighing, Lily rested into Damian’s side as he slid on a pair of dark aviator sunglasses.