and each day keeps getting better. I know we’ll face trials, but I also know we’ll get through them.”
“Those trials involve kids?” They had skirted the issue, but he was curious about what her thoughts were on starting a family.
“Kids are a blessing not a trial, Jack, and yes, I want four.”
“Four!” He rolled until he’d pinned her to the bed with his body, his erection pressed against the heat of her.
Astrid wriggled against him, and he could feel the wetness of her desire against him. “Yes, four. Two boys and two girls.”
“That’s a lot.”
“I know, but you’ll be such an amazing dad.”
“You think so?” He wanted kids but was determined not to repeat the mistakes his father had made.
“I know so.”
Jack pressed his cock into her warm, tight pussy, and she whimpered a breathy sound as she clutched his shoulders, her eyes on him full of love he was never sure he’d be worthy of.
“Best get started then.”
Her legs came around his waist, her feet resting on his ass as he moved inside her slowly. “Not until we’re married and that can’t happen until my sister can be beside me.”
His lips found hers, and he slanted his mouth over hers, his tongue finding hers as he brought them both to climax, his seed spilling into her as she cried his name.
Jack held her tight to him when they were both spent. “I’ll wait as long as you need, firefly, and I’ll find the men who hurt her, and you, and make them pay.”
“I know you will, and I know in my heart she’ll find her way back to me.”
Falling asleep that night in each other’s arms, Jack knew he was the luckiest man alive because no matter what happened in his life, he had the woman he loved more than life beside him and a future that was beyond beautiful.
Sneak Peek: Lopez
He sat by her bed, his laptop open, working to find the answers he needed to solve this mystery. Adeline Lasson was a part of his past nobody knew about. Not even Jack or Will knew of the connection they shared, but he did. From the second he’d heard her name fall from Astrid’s lips, the pieces had come together, falling into place.
Yet, before he could get the answers he so desperately needed, she was beaten, her voice silenced, and the answers he sought stolen once again. Lopez pushed his hair from his face, exhaustion once again plaguing him, but sleep was a rare thing for him. His mind was unable to relax and let go of the questions until his body took the choice from him and he collapsed into a deep sleep for twelve to fifteen hours, often waking feeling groggy and confused.
Jack understood his limits and knew of his past. He’d made no secret of who he was and what his past was or his desire to escape it, but nobody knew of the tether that kept him by the bed of the one woman who he hoped held the answers.
He should tell Jack the truth, tell Astrid, but after everything they’d been through, he had no desire to be the one to add more complications. There’d be time for that when Adeline woke—if she woke.
He’d been by her bedside for months. So much so, he knew her condition better than anyone, and there was no reason for her coma, at least not a physical one. Her body had healed, and her brain showed no irregularities from her injury, but that was where the complexities of the human body and mind came into play. The injuries she’d suffered were predictably unpredictable.
They’d never met or spoken in person, and yet he felt like he knew her, and he’d had the overwhelming desire to protect her and keep her safe from the people who hunted her. Looking back at his computer, he knew it would be quicker to go to Will and ask him to find the information, but he also knew once that pandora’s box was opened, it couldn’t be put back, and Adeline would be in danger once more.
Her finger twitched, and he placed the computer beside him and took her fingers in his. He noticed she got agitated easily and if he held her hand and spoke to her, she eased. “It’s okay, Addie. Nobody is going to hurt you. You’re safe, and I won’t let anyone harm you ever again.”
Instead of easing, her heart rate became more erratic, and she began to thrash around the bed until he had to stand, afraid she’d hurt herself. He hit the bell for the nurse who came running in to see what was wrong.
“I’ll find the doctor.”
Not knowing what else to do, Lopez sat on the bed and wrapped her lightly in his arms to stop her from hitting herself against the bars on the bed. As he looked down at her, a sob escaped her, cracking his heart in two at the pain inside it. Her eyes flew open, and he saw the bright green orbs for the first time. Fear clouded her face as she grasped at his arms, desperately weak but still fighting.
“Addie, it’s okay. I’m a friend of Astrid’s. You call her Bumble, right? And she calls you Bee.”
Recognition cleared the fear, and she relaxed into him for a second, the weight of her feeling right in a way he didn’t understand.
Her eyes moved back to his, and he waited for her to speak. “You have to help me, please.” Her fingers clawed at him as she tried to sit up.
“What do you need?”
“My daughter. He has my daughter.”
Then as if the effort that took was too much, she went slack in his arms, passed out cold, and Lopez felt a cold fear crawl up his spine. She had a child, and that child was missing, taken by someone. Even if it killed him, he’d get her back. Anything to take that look of desolation from her stunning face.
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Books by Maddie Wade
Fortis Security
Healing Danger (Dane and Lauren)
Stolen Dreams (Nate and Skye)
Love Divided (Jace and Lucy)
Secret Redemption (Zack and Ava)
Broken Butterfly (Zin and Celeste)
Arctic Fire (Kanan and Roz)
Phoenix Rising (Daniel and Megan)
Nate & Skye Wedding Novella
Digital Desire (Will and Aubrey)
Paradise Ties: A Fortis Wedding Novella (Jace and Lucy & Dane and Lauren)
Wounded Hearts (Drew and Mara)
Scarred Sunrise (Smithy and Lizzie)
Zin and Celeste: A Fortis Family Christmas
Fortis Boxset 1 (Books 1-3)
Fortis Boxset 2 (Books 4-7.5
Eidolon
Alex
Blake
Reid
Liam
Mitch
Gunner
Waggs
Jack
Lopez
Alliance Agency Series (co-written with India Kells)
Deadly Alliance
Knight Watch
Hidden Obsession
Lethal Justice
Innocent Target
Ryoshi Delta (part of Susan Stoker’s Police and Fire: Operation Alpha World)
Condor’s Vow
Sandstorm’s Promise
Hawk’s Honor
Omega’s Oath
Tightrope Duet
Tightrope One
Tightrope Two
Angels of the Triad
01 Sariel
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Keeping Her Secrets Suspenseful Seduction World (Samantha A. Cole’s World)
Finding English Police and Fire: Operation Alpha (Susan Stoker’s world)
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