Their Forever - Chloe Kent Page 0,79
his shirt.
He was here.
“Liam,” she cried as he strode toward her. He lowered his head, inhaling her scent, and she nuzzled against him, hating the restraints that kept her from him. “Liam,” she said breathlessly, saying his name over and over again as he kissed her with all the tenderness in the world.
“You are so fucking beautiful this way,” he rasped.
“Liam.” His name played off her lips continuously.
“Do you believe she loves you now, because if she had a gun, I'd be dead,” Kade said, almost annoyed as he used a bunch of tissues he had ripped from a box to mop up the blood seeping from the scratch on his face that she had given him.
“Do you believe she loves you now, because if she had a gun, it would have been a crime of passion?” Liam answered. The two men before her gave each other an intense look before softening it with a chuckle.
That did it for her.
She had gone to hell and back, and they found a reason to find her violence amusing?
“You let me think you killed him,” she shouted, yanking on her binds again. “You made me think—”
“You didn’t calm down like I asked you to,” Kade said.
“But I don't understand…” She pleaded as Kade rounded her and unwound the restraints at her wrists. Once freed, she flung herself at Liam, then apologized profusely as he turned her against his other side.
She clasped her body to his, as close as she could without hurting him. She still couldn't trust the light shining down on her when she had walked into the dead of darkness not moments ago.
“I don't understand,” she said again, so perplexed her head started to ache again.
“I got an alert about an auction hit and when I realized it was for Liam, I put my name down so I could have access to all the other assassins. I needed to know who they were. But when I couldn't get to the killer in time, I had to take out the target.”
She played Kade's words over in her head trying to find meaning and failed miserably before she finally succeeded in understanding him.
“But what if you missed? What if you killed him?” she cried.
“Kade never misses; if he did it's because he meant to.”
Bombarded with the new information she still tried desperately to crawl out from under the merciless obscurity she had sunk into when she had given up. She couldn't believe the answer was as simple as Kade shooting at Liam to throw his killer off.
She bit the inside of her cheek, convinced she was dreaming but what had started out as a nightmare because Liam was here, alive, within her reach.
“Someone is trying to kill you? Who?” She turned cold. Liam could have died if Kade hadn't been there.
“Nunzio had sent out a secret bid. He thought enough time had passed that no one would suspect him.”
She stepped out of Liam's embrace. It still would have been her fault if something had happened to Liam. The only reason Nunzio kept a grudge was because Liam had humiliated him in front of his men and taken her from him, paying an amount for her that was so ridiculous, it should have been laughed at and brushed aside. If not for Kade, Liam could have been dead. Because of her.
She stepped back farther from the two men. They seemed to sense her withdrawing and taking all the blame.
“Hey,” Kade said as they both started to come toward her. “While Liam made that pact with Nunzio's father to keep his son alive, I didn't. Do you understand?”
Her gaze swung to Kade. She didn't need the words to know that Nunzio was no longer a threat. She read it all in Kade's confident gaze. He silently reassured her, and she believed him. She nodded slowly. And couldn't help crying all over again.
“I love you, Olivia,” Liam said. Startled, she blinked away the heavy tears pooled in her eyes. Her brows dropped to the center of her forehead. Her breath came out in rampant bursts of disbelief and amazement. He had never uttered those words to her ever.
*~~*~~*
Liam Stone couldn't get the sadness of her face out of his mind. Seeing her rage against Kade because she loved them both. Seeing her going into a mode in which she barely existed, fatigued and undone, had crushed his heart.
He didn't want to do that to her anymore.
“I love you,” he said again, taking out the little pebble