Lured (Team Zero #1) - Rina Kent Page 0,48

in a chaise longue. I’m wearing a simple summer dress and trying to focus on a law book.

It’s hard.

No. It’s impossible.

Eloise is giggling while running along the beach. Her dark brown hair flies all over her face. She got her father’s hair and some of his stubborn personality, but the bright green eyes are mine and Papa’s.

Dominic sweeps her in his arms and she laughs so hard until she snorts. I can’t help smiling like an idiot. My book lies forgotten. Dominic is only in black shorts. The view of his well-defined muscles brings the memory of when I held on to his waist this morning.

A throb starts between my legs. The physical thrill with Dominic never withered away. I still defy him to be punished senseless. He still binds me and wrenches one shattering orgasm after the other. But other times, when he seems like he’s struggling with work, he just lets me hold him while he falls asleep.

He never tells me about his research now, but he doesn’t need to. I know he’s involved with wrong people. He said he’s doing his best to get out while protecting me and Eloise and that’s all I need to know. I’ll always be proud of how genius he is despite the wrong path his research took.

He still flies between France and England, but that’s a lifestyle I agreed with. We all live in Papa’s huge mansion. My parents are raising Eloise as much as Dominic and I. Since both of us work, she finds lots of sanctuary with her grandparents. Papa is spoiling her shitless. Living in the mansion was Papa’s only condition when Dominic asked him for my hand in marriage.

We had a small, family wedding before Eloise’s birth and it was the best wedding I could dream of.

Dominic and Eloise are the only things I want from life.

Eloise gets busy in building her sand castle. Dominic tells her he’ll bring water and then saunters my way.

I trouble my bottom lip as I watch the way his agile body moves with. All of that is mine. He’s mine.

He sits beside me and whispers in a husky as hell voice. “If you continue watching me that way, I’ll claim you in public.”

“What?” I feign innocence. “I’m focusing on my book.”

“Uh-huh.” He reaches for my hair and strokes a strand behind my ear. “How do you feel?”

He’s been asking that the whole time since our reunion. He makes me take complete health checks every month. He’s even sketchy about me having another child because it can hurt my health. He says Eloise is everything for him, but I’ll be able to convince him to give her a sibling soon enough.

“Stop going all doctor OCD on me, Dom. I’m fine.” I smile and run a finger down the stubble on his cheek. “But I will be terrific if we can find someplace private.”

He glares at Eloise who got bored with the castle and is splashing water with her tiny feet. “You mean there’s a place where that little demon won’t cockblock me?”

I chuckle. “Well, she sleeps soundly if she’s too exhausted so let’s play with her until she does.”

“Hmmm. I wonder who taught you such manipulative habits, wife.”

I feign ignorance, wrap my arms around his neck and pull him into me. “I wonder, too.”

His lips find mine and he kisses me long and deep until I can’t breathe. Dominic’s kisses never changed. He’s always been and always will be the intense man who sweeps everything in his path. In return, he gave me his bared soul. His heart. And his rare warmth.

“Daddy!” Eloise calls from in front of us. Her shiny green eyes are too expressive like they can see inside souls.

We break apart and she takes Dominic’s forefinger and then mine. She smiles at the both of us. Dominic and I tickle her until she breaks into a fit of giggles.

And then Dominic cocoons us both in his strong, safe arms.

For a moment in time, we were happy.

So utterly happy.

The End

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Blurb

She wished for death. A killer showed up at her door.

Eloise

Life left me when my family died.

I thought I wanted to die, too, until death comes