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choice. Your decision. No strings.”
    “Why are you doing this?” she cried.
    I reached the end of my rope. “I’m doing this for you, damn it .”
    She sucked in a gasp and it was as if understanding drained the fear from her face. “Move past it,” she said quickly, swiping at her tears.
    I wasn’t ready to trust it. “You still scared of me?”
    She shook her head.
    “ Say it. ”
    Calmly, quietly, she did. “I’m not afraid of you.”
    Relief washed over me. “Come here,” I whispered.
    Her small body stepped into mine and I wrapped my arms around her.
    But she wasn’t ready to let it go. “This is going to follow us.”
    No us about it. I killed, she didn’t. “It’s over,” I reassured her.
    “I feel like I’ll be looking over my shoulder my whole life.”
    I caught her chin and tilted her face up. “Good.”
    Her forehead creased with alarm.
    “Because you know what you’re gonna see?”
    Cautiously, she shook her head.
    “Me.”
    Her eyes, her body in my arms, they softened. “I never considered moving on.”
    “I needed to give you that choice,” I explained.
    “I didn’t want it.”
    “Good, because I’m not giving it to you again.”
    The ghost of the smile I’d killed for touched the edge of her lips.
    It was enough.
    I covered her mouth with mine and I was home.

M Y HANDS THREADED THROUGH HE r hair and I deepened the kiss. I wanted to be inside her. I wanted to reassure myself that she was alive. I wanted to feel her beating heart and tight wetness but we were totally exposed in open waters. Reluctantly, I pulled back.
    “I want to make Key Largo by sunrise.” I tucked a strand of her hair that’d come loose behind her ear. “Why don’t you go below and get some rest?” I needed to make some calls.
    “Why are you trying to get rid of me?”
    If I wasn’t wrecked from the fucking emotional roller coaster we’d just been through, I would’ve smiled. “I’m not. Grab me some clothes?”
    “So you can do what?” she asked nervously.
    Christ. I rubbed a hand over my face. “Get us out of here, for one.”
    “And two?” she persisted.
    “I’m going to make a few calls.”
    She sighed and a hint of the Layna I knew surfaced. “When this is all over, I want a honeymoon redo.”
    “Copy that.”
    Her hands went to her hips. “I’m not one of your subordinate Marines you can boss around.”
    “No, you definitely are not.” I would’ve already had clothes.
    “Redo,” she snapped.
    I fought a smile and lost. “Clothes. And bring me your cell phone.” It would guarantee one of my calls would get answered.
    “How do you know I left my cell phone on the boat?”
    “I know everything about—”
    She held her hand up. “You know what? Forget it. Forget I asked.”
    She went to the cabin and I turned the engines back over. I took a second to use the thermal imager to scan the water around us but I didn’t see anyone.
    “What is that?” She came back up and handed me shorts and a t-shirt.
    I held it out to her. “Thermal imager.”
    She looked through it. “Wow. This really works. Now I know why you want to partner with André.” She set the imager down. “You get all the cool toys.”
    I pulled my clothes on and swung the Cobalt to the northeast. “That’s one reason.” I plugged the coordinates of Neil’s place into the GPS.
    “What are the other reasons?”
    “Money, adrenaline, and purpose.” I altered our course slightly.
    “We have a lot of money.”
    “You have a lot,” I corrected. I had some.
    “We’re married, Blaze.”
    I grabbed her chin and planted a quick kiss. “I know. Thank you.”
    She flushed. “You’re welcome.” Then she cleared her throat. “So, you don’t need money.”
    She had a bank account with millions, not me. I wasn’t about to be a kept man. “You’re right. I don’t.”
    She relaxed for a second then sighed. “That didn’t mean what I thought it did.”
    I wrapped my arm around her and pulled her in