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Jade’s eyes widen. “Well, the head person at the agency is a good friend, and assuming no one claims him, I don’t see why you guys couldn’t be first on the list. You did find him.” She grins.
He nods, his eyes gleaming as he looks at me.
“Are you sure?” I ask my fiancé.
His hands reach out for the baby, and slowly, I unclench the boy’s fist from my hair and hand him to Adriel.
Staring down at him, Adriel looks lost, yet also like he’s found something that means much more than he’s ever known.
“I’m sure.” His mouth twitches. “With everything I’ve been through, the way I was left at the hands of people who never knew how to love, I want his life to be different. I want him to have more.” He gazes at me and smiles. “And I think we can be the people who give him that. So, what do you think, baby bird? Want to make this life of ours even crazier?”
I take his hand and hold it tightly. “I do. I want all my crazy days with you.”
ADRIEL
SIX MONTHS LATER
Holding my son, Jameson, in my arms while Kayla makes us lunch, I wonder what the hell happened to the man I once was. The one who didn’t know how to love or how to touch another human being. Yet, over the time I’ve been with Kayla and now our boy, I don’t know how else to describe what I feel except love. They’ve been my purpose, my redemption. A calling in life I never knew I needed.
And for all the bad days I’ve endured, I’ve had many good ones. Those days are the ones I hold on to.
After we took Jameson home the night we found him, we fostered him for a couple of months until we were able to officially adopt him.
Jameson Quinn.
Though I’m still working on the dynamics of my relationship with my family, I chose to take a step in the right direction and change my last name to that of my father. I’m building my relationship with my parents, brick by brick. Though it’s not easy, we’re getting there.
They often babysit at their place while Kayla and I go on our dates—and usually, by dates, I mean slaughtering someone and watching his body burn in our furnace. Some things never change, I guess. I don’t think they ever will.
My company is still very active, too. I even had Michael update his tech with a retina scanner. He did like this little addition, considering how easy it was for me to penetrate his system.
Staring at my wife while she carries over two plates withroasted potatoes and cheeseburgers she made, I wonder who I’d be if I’d never met her. How dreary and dead my life would really still be. Living in hate. Now all I have is love.
I place our son in the bassinet beside me while he coos, and I take the plates from her, lowering them on the table.
Scooping her up, I place her on my lap. “Thanks for this.”
My lips land softly on the corner of hers.
“It’s just lunch.” Her mouth slants up and she holds my face in her palm.
“I don’t mean the food, Kayla. I mean all of this. Our life. You. This boy. Everything. You don’t know how truly lost I was before you came along.”
“I do know.” Her thumb brushes the stubble across my jaw. “Because I was lost too.”
The deeper I stare at my wife, the harder my heart beats and the more I want to say the words I’ve never said out loud.
“What is it?” she asks, stealing all my breaths away.
“I just wanted to tell you…”
“Yeah?”
“I wanted to tell you that I love you, little wolf.”
“Wh-what?” She chokes up, tears forming in her eyes like raindrops. “Can…can you say that again?” she whispers on a cry.
It breaks my heart to know how desperately she needed to hear those words. And from now on, I plan on telling her how much I love her for the rest of my life.
“I love you, baby. I’ll love you until my heart no longer beats, and even after that, because what I feel for you is stronger than anything I’ve ever known.”
She sighs. And tenderly, her lips fall to mine, and she kisses me passionately and with promises of a future that is now ours.
Rising to my feet, I carry her out onto the sofa, strip off herclothes along with mine, and show her just how much I love her with my body the way I love her with my heart.
