Page 66 of Twin Deception

He exhaled another long breath, as if he were tense for what I’d say.

“The world needs more heroes like you,” I said, truly meaning it.

And I needed us to put this situation behind us so I could show him how much I needed him in my world, in my life, for the rest of our days.

25

MIGUEL

Watch it, sweetheart.

You’ll make me fall in love with you and be worthless away from you. A shell if you ever leave me or can’t handle what a life with me would be like.

She was soft while I was hard.

She was goodness and sunshine while I was evil and darkness.

She painted murals for children’s literacy groups and humane societies while I killed deviants and scumbags.

We couldn’t be more opposite, and because of that, I was fully aware that if I gave her my heart, if I surrendered to loving her, she would have so much power over me that I would forever be humbled. Because if she couldn’t handle a life with me, I would be destroyed.

“I just told you to be careful,” I warned slowly. “If you keep this up, I might fucking fall in love with you.”

“Hmm.” She was sassy even in that non-answer of an acknowledgment.

“You want to callmea hero?”

The absurdity of this conversation had me cautioning myself for getting in any deeper with her than I already was. It just seemed too impossible that she could accept me as I was, that she’d have a big enough heart and a wise enough head to trust me after I admitted I’d only found her because I was supposed to kill her.

I was an assassin. A hitman for the Cartel.

“A hero? I’m not someone you bring home to meet the parents.”

“Well.” She drummed her fingers on the armrest of the passenger door. “Since you were originally contracted to kill Louis, I think the whole meet-the-parent ordeal won’t really matter between us.”

I couldn’t help but chuckle. “You’ve got some low standards if I’m a hero in your eyes.”

“That’s not true.” She turned to face my profile, leaning closer over the center console to really argue and sass. “My standards are just fine.”

I smirked, turning onto another road with trees, vine-covered bushes, and flowers lining one side.

“You said I can use the rest of my life getting to know you, but I am confident in recognizing what I can see with my own two eyes right now.”

“Oh?” I glanced at her, mesmerized by the naughtiness in her expression. So defiant. So real. So incredibly gorgeous andmine.

“Yeah. I see asexykiller, at least.”

I watched her crawl closer to me.

“Maybe a little older.”

I gaped at her.

She laughed lightly. “But still so…” The rest of her description was better left shown than spoken. Leaning into me, she cupped my face but didn’t turn my head so I’d still be able to watch the road. She kissed down my cheek, though, rubbing her fingers at the base of my neck.

Tingles shot up my scalp under her perfect massage. My dick hardened at the suck of her lips on my earlobe.

And when she lowered her hand to my shorts and started to unzip them, all the blood rushed to my dick. I was hard, tense and aching for her as she pulled my shaft out.

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