You have an awesome shop,” Trigger said. I’ll order twelve white roses and two bunches of wildflowers to take home to Rylie,” he said, grinning.
Like this was just another day for him.
I looked between them.
All of them.
“You guys don’t have to—”
“Yeah,” Blaze cut in. “We do.”
I blinked.
“Why?”
He gave me a look.
“Because that’s what we do.”
Simple.
Like it wasn’t even a question.
Something in my chest shifted.
Because this—
This was what I’d been afraid of before.
The danger.
The attention.
The chaos that followed men like them.
And now—
I was standing in the middle of it.
Not running.
Not hiding.
Still here.
“Okay,” I said quietly.
Ace glanced at me.
“You good with this?”
I took a breath.
Then nodded.
“Yeah.”
Because for the first time—