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Like it was a choreographed move, I moved to Raine, Clip to Cassidee, Jimmy to Shea, and believe it or not, Storm to Lena.
After they got a sight of all of us, they had to give themselves whiplash as they looked away.
The four of us chuckled as we moved back to where we all were.
After we ate, I followed Raine like a fucking puppy and sat down beside her as we stared out into the ocean.
It was time. Time to ask her to be mine. And if she said no, kidnap her and keep her until she said yes.
Staring out into the water, I asked her, “You have no idea what you did for me.”
Looking over at me, she asked, “What did I do for you?”
Staring into those gray eyes of hers, I told her, “You saved me.”
She scrunched up her brow and asked, “How did I do that?”
Tangling my fingers with hers, the calm I desperately crave wrapped itself around me, filling up every fiber of my being, “Whenever we were in a dangerous location, all I had to do was keep your smiling face at the forefront of my mind. I didn’t see the men I killed. All I saw was that they were on my way of getting back home. To you. Every mission was like that.”
“Carter…” hearing my name whispered on her lips, the biting of her bottom lip, the unshed tears that filled her eyes.
The next thing I knew she had her face planted in my chest, her tiny frame shaking. Wrapping my arms around her, pulling her in close, her tears soaking through my shirt.
Pressing a kiss on the top of her head, I looked back out at sea. It was time, the sun was starting to set.
And I wanted this moment to be perfect.
I wanted to brand it on the backs of my eyelids.
Then decided to not take a chance, I threw everything I was going to say to convince her to be mine into the trash and went with my gut.
“Raine, you’ve been mine since you took your first breath. I just couldn’t act on it until you turned eighteen. So let me make this clear for you, I’m in love with you. I think you like me back at least.” I let out a little chuckle.
“We’re going to give this a try, you, and me, and I know it will last. I just have to prove it to you. So, in case you missed the memo, you’re my woman, and I’m your man.”
“Don’t I get a say so?” She asked as she snuggled into my chest.
“Not when you’re the air I need to breathe. My gravity. If something happened to you, I would follow you to the depths of the earth and even beyond that if that was what it took to remain at your side.”
Pulling her face from my body, wiping the remaining tears from her cheeks, and then laughing softly when new ones started to form.
“Are you really mine?” She asked, hope lacing every word, love shining brightly in her eyes.
“Been yours since I took my first breath. Just had to wait twenty-nine years to make you mine. And I know it’s going to be worth it.”
Seeing the tenderness on her face, the way the sun was casting a majestic glow all around her, lighting her dark auburn hair, streaks of red blasting out through it.
I couldn’t have created a better moment even if I tried.
Therefore, I placed my hand on the side of her face, my heart ramping up in beats when she closed her eyes, leaned her face into my touch and fucking sighed.
Waiting.
I sat there.
Needing her to open her eyes for what I was about to do next.
And when she opened them, I leaned into her, my face close to hers, my eyes staying locked with hers. “Going to kiss you now. Going to make you mine now. Then make you mine in every way imaginable whenever you’re ready. You don’t want me to do that, you need to tell me now. Because Gray, I get a taste of you, I’m never letting you go.”
