I swing around and pull Saff to me. I take us both to the ground so that we are out of line of sight should any stray bullets be fired as Adam and several other colleagues come pouring into the room. I pull her tighter into me and cover her as the commotion around us swells and then lessens.
My captain comes back out to handle the media attention. The news that the necklace has been found makes its way around town so that even my sisters come to catch a glimpse of the Heart. It takes several hours before I have Saff all to myself again.
"So...I guess now I don't have to be protected or guarded any longer. Now that you caught all the bad guys."
Her eyes look sad and I can just guess what she is thinking. "Oh, I don't know about that, angel. A woman that looks as good as you, I think you might have to be 'guarded' all the time." I pull her close and bend to kiss her.
The sky is beginning to lighten outside when I finally get her back home. When we left she had to wear one of my police t-shirts and a pair of leggings Michelle left at my place. They were way too long on her but somehow, she pulls it off.
"It's All Hallow's Day."
"Hmm, I think I got the best treat of them all this Halloween."
I go to where she is looking out the big windows and wrap my arms around her. "You know seeing you standing in my living room last night gave me such ideas about this very place."
"Ideas?" Her eyebrows are scrunched together in the cutest-looking frown in the world, trying to figure out what kind of ideas I have running through my head.
"Oh yeah. I think you would look breathtaking - not that you don't already - with the moonlight highlighting your sexy little curves as I take you up against this wall of glass while you stare out at the bay below."
"Oh," she says the word all breathy, the corners of her mouth turning up in a secret little smile. She likes the idea.
"Why don't we see if the first rays of the sun do the same thing." I take her hands and turn her placing them on the glass so I can have rein to this beautiful body she has.
I run one of my hands up under the shirt she is wearing and find her unbound breasts waiting for me. When I take one in my hand she moans and pushes her ass back against my ever-hardening cock. Her head falls back and I take the invitation she is offering to place my lips along the sweet column of her neck.
With the other hand, I work her leggings down until I can play with her clit just the way I know she likes. She gives me another breathy moan before I capture her mouth with my own. My cock is out in moments, ready for her. I slip inside of her still tight warmth before pulling back to look her in the eyes.
"Stay. Stay with me."
Emotions play over her face showing me every thought, every worry, "Today?"
"Today, tonight, tomorrow, the next day...," I drop kisses down her face, across her cheek, and down her nose, "and the day after that." I want to ask her for forever but I don't want to freak her out either. Forever will come. As long as I can get this beautiful witch to promise me tonight.
She gives me another one of those secret smiles and kisses me before answering. "I'll stay for as long as you want me."
She doesn't realize it yet, but this woman isn't going any-damn-where because I will want her as long as I have breath left in my body. And maybe beyond. If love can go across that divide, then I will find a way to let her know I will always want her. She's never leaving me and I will never leave her!
Epilogue I
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Saffie
Three Weeks Later
Oh, this is not good! This is so not good! I'm about to vomit everywhere. And this time I don't think it has anything to do with the problem I just confirmed I have. I start crying. What else can I do? I fucked everything up.
These past few weeks have been some of the most magical and happiest I’ve ever had. Cooper has made me feel so loved and wanted. I can't remember a night I haven't spent with him. I double over with the weight of the worry that hits me.
"Angel, you home?"
Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit! I hurry to wipe the tears from my face and shove the evidence in the cabinet under the sink before opening the door and rushing out to meet Cooper. The last thing I am going to do is mess his holiday up, this is the first one I will be spending with his family. I come around the corner just as he is coming to find me.
"I...I'm here." Shit, I think my voice might have cracked right then. "Did you have a good day at work?"
"Hmm, it was alright." He looks me up and down and I'm certain I'm busted. "What's wrong?"
I start to shake my head but when I start to tell him nothing is wrong my throat clogs up. He is in front of me pulling me in his arms in a second. And all I can do is sob into his chest.