Maybe it was all they’d been through, or the knowledge that he’d just killed to protect her life, but all of her love for him came out in a long scream. Her body spasmed into another crescendo of pleasure, and he forged his way in deep to fill her.

Dax lowered her onto her feet and with the shower still battering each of their shoulders she rested her hands on his chest. ‘I’m never going to make you sorry,’ she said. ‘You picked me. You gave up everything. I won’t forget that.’

‘I won’t forget the risk you took,’ he said. ‘You didn’t have to marry me, you could’ve run for your life.’

‘You are my life,’ Ivy said. ‘We’re going to pack up here, and we’re going to go home, to where we belong.’

‘Next to you,’ he said. ‘That’s where I belong.’

‘You don’t have to fight anymore. You won. We both did.’

‘Well,’ he said, taking her hair in his fists behind each of her shoulders like they were arranged in bunches. ‘Fighting for our lives is done, now we can just fight for fun.’

‘At least until we have some little fighters running around.’ She grinned and rose to her tiptoes to kiss him.

‘You’re hung up on this kid thing, aren’t you?’

‘Family is important to you. It’s time you started one of your own and got it right this time. Maybe we can help each other find what neither of us had growing up.’

‘What was the one thing of particular importance in your backpack that Mauri mentioned at the party? You never told me what it was. Did you check inside, is it there?’

‘Yes,’ she smiled. ‘And it wasn’t something for me, it was something for you and our little fighters.’

‘What is it?’

‘My grandfather’s pocket watch. My grandfather gave it to me before he died because I adored him. He gave me my morals, taught me why it was important to live right. I didn’t get why it was so important back then, but I looked after it like it was the most important thing in the world. When he was sick and came to stay with us, my mother tried to pawn it, but he would never let her. So when it came to me, I looked after it, took it from place to place all my life. It’s the only possession of mine that I valued because it could never be replaced and carrying that piece of him with me kept me honest.’

‘And you want me to have it?’ Dax asked, stroking his fingertips down her spine to the dimples above her ass.

‘Yeah, I do.’

‘Why give it away now? If it’s the only thing you’ve ever owned that you love then—‘

‘But it’s not anymore,’ she said. ‘You’re the only thing I own now that can never be replaced and I value you more than anything else on this earth; giving it to you is giving you a part of me.’

‘I want more than a part,’ he said, pinning her to the wall. ‘I want all of you, and I’ll fight every day until I have it.’

‘Oh, Master,’ Ivy said, sliding her hands up to the back of his neck. ‘Every inch of me is yours; you own all of me.’

‘Good,’ he said, lowering for a kiss. ‘Get used to it, because I am where you belong.’

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