Page 47 of The Bodyguard and the Bombshell

“Your da is being an idiot.” Of this he had zero worries. Liam O’Donnell was scared of losing his daughter. He would figure this out. “And he’ll come around. He’s a smart man. Your mum is already cool with this.”

“My mum loves you,” she said quietly.

“I know it doesn’t seem like it, but your da does, too. Liam has been a solid figure in my life since I was a baby. His world is getting rocked right now, but he’ll see this is for the best in the end.” He breathed her in. There was such peace here. Daisy was a storm, but like a storm she was necessary, and the world felt fresh and new. “I promise you, this won’t last. He adores you, but change is hard. Aidan’s already on board. There’s no way your father doesn’t see this relationship is good for both of us. Until then, we should enjoy being alone. How many new couples get this kind of time together?”

She turned her head up, her lips curling in a sexy smile. “So what you’re saying is me getting on an assassin’s hit list is actually a good thing.”

His girl could turn a frown upside down. “My dick thinks so.”

That smile turned brilliant. “So you’re all in?”

In the end it was the easiest decision he’d ever made. “I’m all in, love.”

“And you’re okay with what it means for me to be all in.”

Oh, she could bring it on. Being with Daisy would mean danger at every corner. Or at least mischief. But then he’d complained about life being boring. “I told you. I love your winds, Typhoon. I guess I should call you a hurricane since I’m here now.”

She sat up, throwing a leg over his waist and sliding her core right over his cock. “Then you should know, I have some making up to do. Saint Daisy needs to get a little dirty, baby.”

He held on as the storm started all over again.

Chapter Ten

Nate woke the second his phone buzzed. He’d connected it to the security system the night before. Any disruption would send an alert.

Someone had turned off the alarm and then reset the sucker in under thirty seconds.

He’d been plain. Anyone coming in or out of Sanctum when the club wasn’t open was supposed to send him notification. There had been no notifications.

So either the elders were testing him or they had an assassin who happened to know the ever-changing code to the security system at Sanctum. One of those was hard to believe, and the other not at all surprising.

He should have expected it. He’d heard rumors about all the bodyguards getting wild tests of their skills when they signed on at McKay-Taggart. He was literally guarding one of the founder’s beloved daughters. There was zero chance they wouldn’t try to fuck with him and prove he couldn’t do it.

Daisy shifted in bed when he moved away from her, like she was a heat-seeking missile. It was dark without the light from his phone, but the illumination coming from the jukebox gave everything a low glow. Yeah, there was an old-school jukebox. He hadn’t played anything off of it because it was all old stuff, but it had been exactly the right height to fuck Daisy against.

“Wake up, love. We’ve got incoming.”

She shot up in bed, her hair wild around her shoulders. “Holy shit. You think the bad guys are here?”

Damn, but she looked good enough to eat. He eased out of bed, reaching for his boxers. If he knew Taggart and the crew, they would move quickly in the hopes of catching him in bed. Unfortunately, catching him in bed meant catching Daisy, and he didn’t want her embarrassed. “Nah.” He grabbed his SIG. “I think this is more about me than you. Your da is testing me. Lock yourself in the bathroom just in case, and call the MT building. Let them know someone used the security code to enter Sanctum unauthorized.”

Daisy moved swiftly, dragging the sheet around her. “You’re sure it’s Da?”

“Whoever it was, they knew the alarm code,” he replied. “It runs on a constantly shifting algorithm Hutch created. As it can only be accessed by a few phones, I doubt it’s our bad guys. Now hurry because they’ll try the apartment first, but they’ll figure out quickly we’re not there. If they catch me, your da will try to get me replaced.”

She held the sheet around her with one hand and her phone in the other. “Just remember he has a bad back. They all do, and they all think they’re still twenty-five and in perfect military condition. Be nice.”

She kissed him and moved to the bathroom, already on the phone. “Hey, I needed to let you guys know we’re apparently being invaded by cartel members down at Sanctum. It’s okay. Nate is taking care of them. I’m pretty sure he’s already taken most of them out. It was a lot of blood. I was hoping Aunt Charlotte would give me some cleaning tips.”

He loved her.

Damn, he loved her. There was no real time to deal with the revelation because if he got caught, there would be all kinds of hell to pay.

Or he could be dealing with a very well-prepared assassin.

The minute he eased out of the privacy room, he realized he was definitely dealing with the big bosses, and they didn’t even respect him.

“How long should we wait?” Devi Taggart was in the lounge below, standing with Brianna Dean-Miles and… Damn, they’d brought Avery with them.

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