by KB Winters
“Been working on it all year.” His gaze was filled with longing. “I’ve missed you.”
“I’ve been where I always am, Roddick. You couldn’t have missed me that much.” I knew it wasn’t fair as soon as I said it. “Sorry.”
“It’s okay, you’re right. I should have called, but I needed to make sure everything was taken care of before I came back to you, Cherie.”
Words I always wanted to hear. “What’s going on, Roddick?”
He guided me to the gray cushioned sofa and held my hands in his before taking a long breath. Then he started talking. And talking. About the task force, the drugs, the cartel and taking down the governor of Chihuahua. Everything. “I’m not the Prez anymore.”
My eyes went wide and I grabbed his face. “Roddick, no!” No one ever left CAOS of their own free will. “You’re…?” I couldn’t even voice it, it was just too awful to think about.
He smiled and pressed a kiss to the center of my palm. “I’m glad to see you’re still worried about me, but you don’t need to be. I’m not out of CAOS, not officially, but I’m no longer an active member. In fact, I’m leaving California altogether.”
There was so much to dissect about just a few short sentences that I had no clue where to start processing. I tried to focus on one thing, just one thing, and finally, it came into focus. “Where are you going?”
He shrugged. “I’m not sure yet. This chick I’m in love with just got a job and she’s moving to some place called Saka. . .Sasketcha. . . oh, fuck, Canada, so I thought I’d check that out.”
It took a moment, but as soon as I felt a tear slide down my cheek I knew I’d heard right. My lips trembled. “Y-you mean that? You’re in love with me?”
He nodded, smiling in bemusement. “You didn’t know?”
“Don’t I seem shocked enough?” I couldn’t believe it. This big handsome man was in love with me and he wanted to move with me. “Oh, Roddick, I am so in love with you, too. I have been since…well, forever.”
He smiled as I slid closer, scooping me up and onto his lap. “It feels like I’ve been in love with you forever, too. Does that make me a dirty old man?”
I shook my head with a smile. “Fuck yeah, baby. It makes you my dirty old man.”
Then he pressed his mouth to mine in a smoldering kiss that quickly caught fire. His lips felt strong, soft, insistent as they coaxed mine open to let his tongue slide in. It just felt right. Amazing. Perfect. His hands were warm against my cool skin, so big as they cupped my ass and brought me closer. His tongue delved deeper and I moaned, letting my body relax into his. I was finally…letting go. Roddick was the first to pull back and dotted my neck and jaw with kisses. “That sounds like perfection to me, Cherie.”
“Me too.” I smiled at him, unable to stop the silly happy grin that spread across my face.
“So…Canada?”
I nodded and took another taste of his lips. “Canada.”
Epilogue
Roddick ~Two years later
Holding my wife’s naked body in my hands while I thrust into her was the best damn part of the cold ass days and arctic nights here in Canada. Our new home was at least twice as big as the apartment we lived in our first year in town. Now we had a house. A home. With a fireplace in the bedroom, which came in pretty handy because Cherie loved making love by a roaring fire. “Someone’s feeling frisky today.”
She laughed and tightened her legs around my waist, licking the sweat from my neck in one naughty swipe. “I can’t help it. I think it’s the storm, so dangerous and wicked.”
“Or maybe,” I kissed one side of her neck and then the other, “it’s the pregnancy hormones.” I dotted kisses down her body until I came to the small swell of her belly where our baby grew inside.
She laughed and pulled me up for another kiss. “I’m only four and a half months, I think that’s too soon for the horniness stage.”
“You mean this is just you and there’s more to come…later?”
She smacked my ass and kissed my mouth. “You’re insatiable! That’s how I got like this in the first place.”
Yeah, we’d spent the first few months in our tiny apartment lost in each other. Losing ourselves in the passion of our love. She worked during the day, and I made us a home. “Have you told your brother about the baby yet?”
“No. I wanted to make sure we were out of the woods first.” She nibbled her bottom lip which she only did when she was nervous.
“What is it, darlin’?”
“Nothing. I just...I’m nervous.”
“Baz is cool with this. Remember the wedding?” He’d gotten us both rip roaring drunk in Niagara Falls and we had the time of our lives, and we had plenty of photos to prove it.
“No, not that. About being pregnant and having the baby.”
“You’re a nurse, Cherie.”
“Exactly, I know what can go wrong.”
“You’ll be fine. I’ll be right there with you the whole time.”
“How did I get so lucky, Roddick? I love you.”
I kissed her for all I was worth and we came together fast and hard, passionate before we both collapsed on the bed with a gasping laugh. “You didn’t get lucky, Cherie, I did. Never forget that.” I wiped her tears and pulled her close.
“I won’t because you are the best husband in the world.”
“You have a way of making me feel like a superhero, baby.” I kissed her again and slid from the bed. “I have a surprise for you. Put this on.” I tossed her a robe and waited by the door.
“What are you up to, Rod?”
“You’ll see.” I pulled her along to the room we settled on for the nursery and pushed open the door.
“Oh my God, Roddick! This is. . .amazing.” Awe filled her voice and she looked up at me with tears in her eyes, and I really did feel like a fucking superhero.
“I’m glad you like it, babe.” Woodworking was my new gig, my new passion. I had a shop out back where I made tables, rocking chairs, statutes and pretty much anything else people in North America were willing to buy at my prices. Apparently, high-quality hand-crafted wood was in high demand. “I have a rocker in the works so you can sit right here and nurse our baby.”
She cupped my jaw so tenderly, the way she often did when her emotions were high. “Are you sure this is what you want, Roddick? You’ve transformed into a sexy lumberjack but…”
I sighed because she asked ever so often, and I loved her for it. “Cherie, I am right where I want to be. With you, my beautiful wife.” CAOS was doing fine, thriving even in Brently and beyond. They’d given us half of the ten million dollar reward money from the FBI, but we insisted they kept the money from the other agencies who’d piled charges on Maldonado and about a dozen other Mexican Devils, Molly Johnson, and a few other Mexican politicians. It was a nice nest egg for us and much appreciated.
“I’m glad because I love our life here, even if I do miss Baz. And Torch.”
“We’ll visit once the baby is born. I miss them, too.”
“If we can,” she said. We’d been advised by Brockton to stay out of the U.S. until everyone had been tried and convicted in all jurisdictions.
“If we can’t then we’ll have a big ass party up here. Can you imagine them in this cold?”
We made our way back to our bedroom, and Cherie snuggled closer to me as we sat in front of the fire. “I can’t but I would love to!”
“Then let’s make it happen. When the baby gets here.”
“Babies,” she clarified and looked up at me with tears shimmering in her eyes. “We’re having babies, Roddick.”
“Babies? Twins?” She nodded and I stood, slipping on my long johns and jeans. “Twins?”
“Yes! Where are you going? Are you upset about this?”
I frowned up at her. “Upset? Hell no, I’m excited!”
“Then where are you going?”
“We need another crib and another rocking chair plus two little armoires—and in t
he next four months!” She laughed and it was the sweetest damn sound I’d ever heard. I knew I’d spend the rest of my life keeping that look of love on her face and aimed right at me.
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~ T H E ~ E N D ~
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Acknowledgements
Thank you! I love you all and thank you for making my books a success!! I appreciate each and every one of you.
Thanks to all of my beta readers, street teamers, ARC readers and Facebook fans. Y’all are THE BEST!
And a huge very special thanks to my wonderful PA, Silla. Without you, I’d be a *hot mess! I’m still a hot mess, but without your keen sense of organization and skills, I’d be a burny fiery inferno of hot mess!! Thank you!
And a very special thanks to my editors (who sometimes have to work all through the night! *See HOT MESS above!) Thank you for making my words make sense.
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About The Author
KB Winters has an addiction to caffeine, tattoos and hard-bodied alpha males. The men in her books are very sexy, protective and sometimes bossy, her ladies are…well…bossier!
Living in sunny Southern California, the embarrassingly hopeless romantic writes every chance she gets!
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