Page 174 of Safe and Sound

With a grunt, Dare extended his hand to Ares. “I don’t like it, but I will work with you.”

“As do I.” Jerking his chin at me, he said, “Take care of my cousin. She’s a real firecracker.”

Dare and I laughed. “She’s a corker as we say in Ireland.”

Once Ares and his men left us and the Kavanaughs hung back outside, we were alone in the massive foyer. As he drew me against him, Dare’s breath warmed against my ear. “I need to be inside you.”

I blinked at him in shock. “We’re in a strange place with my uncle’s corpse in the next room.”

He shook his head. “I almost lost you today.”

Bringing my hand up, I cupped his cheek. At the thoughts of everything that had transpired since the funeral, I shuddered. “I can’t believe how close we came. I really thought I would never see you again.”

“That’s why I need to feel alive, and the only way I really do that is when I’m buried deep inside you.”

“I want you, too.”

As he crashed his lips against mine, I hopped into his arms, wrapping my legs around his waist. Immediately, I rubbed my core against his growing erection. Dare’s fingers tangled through my hair as my hands gripped the back of his shirt.

Dare’s hand closed over my breast when a throat cleared behind us. “Get the fuck out!” Dare boomed.

When I peeked over his shoulder, Callum grinned at me. “So sorry to interrupt the lovefest, but your daughter is on the phone.”

“Epic cockblocker,” Dare murmured.

Smacking his shoulder, I replied, “Don’t call her that. She’s worried about me.”

“I already let her know you were fine,” Dare complained.

As Callum handed Dare the phone, Piper’s smiling face stared back at us. “Mommy! Daddy says you was fine.”

“I am, sweetheart. In fact, I’m on the way back to see you.”

“Yeah! I can’t waits to show you my new puppy.” She tilted the phone, giving us a view of the puppy peeing on one of Orla’s rugs.

“Fuck me,” Dare muttered to which I elbowed him in the ribs.

“We’ll see you and the puppy soon, baby. I love you so, so much, and Mommy is so very, very proud of you.”

“I love you, too.”

Once she ended the call, I swept the phone to my chest and said a silent prayer of thanks that everything had worked out.

Jerking his thumb, Callum said, “Come on. Let’s get back to Boston.”

As we started out of the mansion, I leaned over to whisper in Dare’s ear. “The minute we get on the plane we’re taking the bedroom.”

He shot me a wicked grin. “I can’t wait to make you scream.”

“Not in front of your brothers.”

“Especially in front of them.”

“You’re impossible.”

“Impossibly in love with you.”

Dare kissed me as we stepped into the sunshine and into our bright future.

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