“Aye, I do.” In one swift move, he plucks me up and brings me to settle over his waist. “You’re worried Noah is going to break Bean’s heart. The answer to that is never. He’d take his own life before allowing any harm to come to the lass. Felix will see his way through the challenges he’s taken on.”
With that, he rises and takes me lips in a searing kiss. My thoughts scatter as he pushes his fingers into my hair. Tugging my head back with a tight grip on my roots, he starts a trail of kisses down my neck.
A gasp leaves me lips. Joe has as much of an appetite for sex as he did when I first met him. I give all my boys shit, but I know where they get it from.
“Joe,” I moan, when he drops one hand to my bum and drags my heat into his rock-hard erection.
I’m almost lost, but the bite of his fingers into my ass followed by a hard slap carries me thoughts to the one son he didn’t reassure me would be fine. I cup my husband’s face and look him in it. He groans and closes his eyes as he leans his forehead to my chin.
“That one I can’t give you any guarantees on. The lass he’s head over heels for can be as unpredictable as he can. But John is John. He will fix her and by proxy, himself. I think they are good for each other.”
“Does she deserve me boy? He’s a special one. That heart is softer than he lets on. I know that crazy one is still lurking in his life. I can just feel it.”
“Aye, she’s his perfect match. Fire and heart. The only difference is she doesn’t show it like he does, but it’s there.” He nips my chin. “I keep an eye on all of our family, Cass. I take care of what’s mine. Let me show you.”
“Fine.”
My worries are silenced as my husband captures my nipple in his mouth, sending me writhing in his lap. I lock my fingers into his dark locks and give myself over to it. If Joe says he has it, he has it.
Joe
All my life I wanted the love of a woman like Cass. I ache for this wee lass every day of my life. I’ve taught my sons to find a woman that leaves them breathless the way their mother has done me for the last thirty-two years. Cass was the worthy one.
My muscles shake as I thrust into her heat. Her small body shakes beneath me. All worries went out the window about an hour ago.
“I love you,” I whisper in her ear as I take a tight hold of her red locks.
Rope after rope of my passion spills into her body as she arches off the bed. I don’t see the woman lying beneath me, I see the soul that I live and breathe for. The mother of my sons, the protector of my sanity, the little warrior I fought to call mine for the rest of eternity.
“Joe,” she breathes. The way it leaves her mouth, I know it’s the equivalent of my words. It’s a promise and a prayer.
I place my forehead to hers. “Woman, you’re going to be the death of me some day.”
“And a grand death it shall be.”
I laugh and roll onto my back, tugging her into my arms. However, when I open my mouth to tease her back, an alert from my phone begins to blur through the room. I rush to grab the device from the nightstand. I’m on my feet before I can focus on what I’m seeing.
“What is it?”
“Nellie. It’s Wyatt’s.”
“Go, Joe, go,” my wife demands.
Chapter 28
Red Alert
John
“Roni,” I groan.
“What John?”
I lower my voice as I stand in line to pay for my things in the store. “You can’t pistol whip a guy because he’s staring at your ass,” I growl at her.
“And why the hell not?”
I groan. “Because the Briggs train people for a living. Sometimes outsiders come in. Nate or Thomas would have talked to him if you would have said something.”
In all reality. I wish I were there to pistol whip the asshole myself. However, I can’t tell her that.
“Screw that. Are you still coming? I need to get out of here.”
“I think they’re all right. I spoil you so you think you can get away with this shit.”