Greer blew two swollen cheeks’ worth of air through her lips and squinted.
“That doesn’t look good,” he groaned.
“It’s complicated.”
“How complicated?”
“I know you can keep a secret.” While she stalled his stomach sank. He narrowed his gaze. “Okay.” She held up a hand and leaned in conspiratorially. “She’s Roman Everly’s daughter.”
“Jesus.” His head smacked the cockpit. When he regained his wind and looked at Greer he saw the sadness clouding her eyes. “She’ll be protected. Don’t worry about that.”
“I trust you.” Her gaze danced off again. “Then it’s over.”
“You don’t look happy about that.”
“It was the only thing holding us together.” She said it so quietly he almost didn’t hear.
He buried his hands in her hair and tilted her face.
The blanket shifted. She hauled it up to her chin, but refused to meet his gaze. “I won’t make things hard.”
“Since when?”
Her gaze snapped to his. “That’s why you want me to go to the hospital. You could slip out and know I’d be taken care of. It’s fine. For the best, really.”
“Greer?”
She looked at him, her lips pinched between her teeth.
“I work for a clandestine sector of the special operation force for the United Nations. They recruited me after I dropped off the grid, after my father. I haven’t had a place to call home in almost five years. Every week brought a new mission. They kept me busy, kept me moving, disconnected. I liked it.”
Her gaze slid away.
“Greer?”
“What?” She snarled at him and probably the tears tracking down the side of her face.
“I liked it until I made a connection…with you.” His lips grazed her mouth, her wet cheeks, her forehead. “I love you.”
She grabbed his hands, covered them, and pressed them against her face. Her eyes closed. Fresh tears leaked out from her lids.
“The mission wasn’t the only thing holding us together. We were both held prisoner by our pasts. You set me free, Greer.”
“We set each other free.”
“I’m so used to being caged. I don't think I can handle life without a little bondage.” Her lids flew wide. One brow kicked high. He smiled and pressed on through the thunder of his heartbeat. “I might like a ball and chain, if you’re the one with the key.”
Greer buried her face in his shirt. Sobs shook her shoulders. The guys murmured across the way.
Way to bomb. It wasn’t the reaction he’d hoped for
“Talk to me,” he begged. “What do you think?”
“I think you’re crazy.” Her breath steamed his chest.
“I’m serious.” He sat her in his lap and pulled the blanket high around her shoulders. “After we get you checked out, make sure everything is in order to annihilate your uncle, and handle the arrangements for your father—”
“My grandparents will disown me as soon as they talk to my uncle.”
“They won’t talk to him. Not for a long time.”
“We weren’t close before, but now, I don't have any family.”
“Pay attention, Greer. I want you to be my family. Marry me.”
“I can’t marry you just because I don’t have a family or a house or a job.”
“I don’t want you to marry me for any of those reasons.” He pulled her close. “Tell me what you told me last night.”
“I love you,” she whispered.
“Did you mean it?”
“With my whole heart.”
“Marry me. We’ll go to London. I need to tell my sister about what I did to our father, and I want her to meet you. We’ll figure it out from there.” He tugged her closer. “Be my future, Greer.”
“Z?”
“Cor blimey, woman, what?”
“Did you really think I’d let you ditch me? If that bastard, Xavier, hadn’t shown up, I’d have had that BMW shoved right up your keister, right after I dealt with my uncle.”
“I took the keys.” He winked.
“I hot-wired it.”
“No shite?”
“Almost.”
She rubbed the smirk off his face and pulled his mouth to hers. “You’re my future. Why wouldn’t I be yours?”
“Not going to give me a straight answer, are you?”
“Ask me again.”
“I asked you twice already.”
“Three times,” Eton shouted.
“No.” Her head shook, pulling her wet hair from the blanket. “He demanded I marry him. He didn’t ask.”
The men groaned in unison.
Zeke sighed, and then placed his hand over Greer’s bare heart. “Greer Britton, angel I never deserved, will you marry me?”
“Yes, Zeke Slaughter, I’ll marry you.”
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