by Dale Mayer
“I have no intention of stopping this,” he said. “Making love with you is something I don’t ever see me growing tired of.”
“Me neither,” she whispered, her back arching once again. “Now you need to stop talking too.”
He flipped suddenly, so she lay underneath him, her thighs wrapped around his hips, and he took control. Sending her flying off the cliff once more.
When he followed her a short time later, she gasped and held him close. “Oh, my God.”
“Absolutely,” he said. “What we have is special.”
“No,” she said. “You’re special.”
He kissed her deep, long and hard. “What we have, you and me, we will nurture so we can have it for a long, long time.”
She’d never heard anything so sweet in her life.
Epilogue
Icelite Danning spun on her heels and walked away from Levi. It was the hardest damn thing she’d ever done. But she was getting better at it.
He reached out, grabbed her arm, and spun her around again, his face twisted with anger. “What do you mean, no?” he roared. “I asked you to marry me, and, anytime I try to set a date, you keep pushing it off. Why?”
Ice stood firm, her hands on her hips. “You’re not ready,” she snapped.
“It’s not for you to tell me when I’m ready or not,” he said, his voice gentle as he stared at her searchingly.
She smiled up at him. “No, it isn’t,” she said, “but it’s a momentous time. And I don’t want you to make a mistake.”
His eyebrows shot up at that. He crossed his arms and said, “Really? You’re telling me that I don’t know what I want?”
“Really?” she said, mimicking him. “Of course, you don’t know what you want. You’re a man.” She laughed and laughed.
He reached out, snagged her up, and kissed her hard. Immediately passion swept over them, as it always did. He held her close, murmuring against her ear. “Ever since I asked you,” he said, “I’ve been trying to set a date. Please put me out of my misery.”
“Okay,” she said, “but I want to think about it. An awful lot of people are here, and we’re likely to start something.”
He winced at that but bravely said, “Maybe we should do a group wedding then.”
She shook her head. “I don’t think that’ll work too well. We only got caught up in the last one because of other people’s plans,” she said. “That’s not exactly something we can do here.”
“Maybe that’s a good thing,” he said. “I have to admit that I was a little concerned about that.”
She chuckled. “I’m sure you were,” she said. “But the bottom line is, that’s not exactly a good idea for us.”
“So what do you want to do?”
She frowned. “I know Bailey and Alfred will want to do the cooking. I don’t want anybody else here but family and friends. I want my father to give me away.”
“What about Bullard?”
She stared up at Levi. “I would love that,” she said, “but I don’t know if you would.”
He gave her that lazy, sexy smile that she absolutely adored and said, “Sweetheart, I don’t mind in the least. But I don’t know if Bullard would want to. Or even has the time to.”
“Then we’ll leave it to Bullard to decide,” she said. “He’s a very good friend, as are many of his people. I wouldn’t want to exclude them either.”
“In that case, you just doubled the numbers here.”
She scrunched up her face and shuddered.
He leaned closer and said, “Maybe you’re the one who’s getting cold feet.”
Heat flashed between them again, and she shook her head. “No cold feet here,” she said. “I can think of nothing I want more than to be your wife.”
At that, he kissed her again, but, just as they deepened their kiss, the alarm sounded throughout the compound. They broke apart, stared at each other in shock, and bolted in different directions. Ice headed for the control room, and Levi headed downstairs.
In the control room, Stone already watched the cameras. She stepped inside, and he said, “Lock the door behind you.”
Immediately, she closed and locked it and hit the security button. “What’s going on?”
“I’m not sure,” he said, “but I counted two gunmen with semiautomatic rifles on the top cliff.”
She gasped and sat down. The sirens were still going on outside. The pool had just opened. Likely half-a-dozen people were out there, but everybody had been briefed on the alarms. At first sound, everybody must be inside and locked down. It also meant all residents of the compound, all the men and their partners, should be armed and ready for full-on warfare. She hated the fact that she had to live in a war zone, but it was what it was.
And she’d rather live in this war zone than continue the work she used to do in a different one. She counted on everybody here to do their job. No way she would let something like this stop her from taking the next step in her life.
“There.” Stone tapped one of the monitors. She glanced at it just in time to see a flash from a scope.
She nodded. “Let me talk to Levi.”
“He’s on the PA system now,” Stone said.
“Levi, he’s onscreen. We’ve got one shooter on the back quarter atop the ridge. Rear camera is still working. He doesn’t appear to know. We have a second shooter outside our secret door.”
“Okay,” Levi said, his voice calm and controlled. “Two teams of men will go out. My team’ll take the secret door, and we’ve got another team going out through the back.”
“Anybody going out the back is likely to get picked off by the sniper on the ridge,” Stone said.
“Maybe,” Levi said, “but not if we get there first. We need to come up with another way to get on the other side of that hill without having to go around.”
“You want to get a bore in and start tunneling through there?” Ice asked.
“Talk about money,” Levi said.
“I don’t care,” Ice said. “I don’t want anything to compromise our security.”
“We’ll discuss it afterward,” he said. “Make sure everybody is accounted for. Do a full roll call, and anybody who’s off-base needs to be told that they can’t come home.”
“Will do,” Ice said. It was standard procedure. All the women had been thoroughly briefed before they moved into the compound, but they hadn’t had an incident in months—just another reason why they had practice sessions. To keep everybody up to date with safety procedures.
For shit that eventually happened—like now.
This concludes Book 19 of Heroes for Hire: Vince’s Vixen.
Read about Ice’s Icing: Heroes for Hire, Book 20
Heroes for Hire: Ice’s Icing (Book #20)
This is #20 of the Heroes for Hire series!
Ice wanted only one thing in her life, and that was Levi—and maybe someone who was a blend of both of them. When he asked her to marry him, she was thrilled, but now she’s struggling to pin down a wedding date for fear he’d been caught up in the moment and didn’t really want to go through with it. When the compound is attacked, and they are forced to go on the offense, she realizes what’s truly important.
Levi is infuriated that Ice refuses to set a wedding date. He’s always loved her, and there will never be anyone else for him. This fact is reinforced as they come under attack by a military group trying to overthrow a government that he aided.
As the bullets fly and the body count mounts, who says you can’t have your cake and your icing too!
Ice wanted only one thing in her life, and that was Levi—and maybe someone who was a blend of both of them. When he asked her to marry him, she was thrilled, but now she’s struggling to pin down a wedding date for fear he’d been caught up in the moment and didn’t really want to go through with it. When the compound is attacked, and they are forced to go on the offense, she realizes what’s truly important.
Levi is infuriated that Ice refuses to set
a wedding date. He’s always loved her, and there will never be anyone else for him. This fact is reinforced as they come under attack by a military group trying to overthrow a government that he aided.
As the bullets fly and the body count mounts, who says you can’t have your cake and your icing too!
Book 20 is available now!
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VINCE’S VIXEN: HEROES FOR HIRE, BOOK 19
Dale Mayer
Valley Publishing Ltd.
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