Oh my.
He signed her over to one of his men.
“Who?” I demand.
“Mitch.” My eyes widen and I swear they feel like they could pop out of my head at any moment.
I slowly sit up and maneuver myself onto his lap. I wrap my arms around his neck and lay my head on his chest when he leans back against the couch. “Have I told you how much I adore being your wife?”
“No, sweetness, you haven’t but I know you do,” he murmurs, pressing a kiss to the top of my head.
“I do. So very much. Thank you for being the love of my life and keeping me from running away when I climbed down the trellis of my father’s home,” I whisper. I couldn’t be any happier to know who my sister is going to marry is a good man.
Well, he is at least to me and I can only hope he’ll embrace her into his heart as Dean has with me.
Chuckling, Dean runs his fingers through my hair. “I would have come after you even if you got away from me, mo chuisle. You were always meant to be mine and I’m never letting you get away from me.”
Epilogue
Dean
Six Months Later
“You had better have a good explanation for this?” I demand, crossing my arms over my chest, staring at the love of my life, mo chuisle, my wife.
However, right now I’m not thrilled with her.
“Um, well, you see, I do,” she giggles.
“Then enlighten me,” I growl, glaring at the mutt in her arms. She’d gone off with Jordan and Connors earlier in the day and came home a few moments ago holding a fuckin’ dog in her arms.
Not just any dog, a Boston Terrier.
I haven’t had a dog since I’d been a kid and I figured if we did get one eventually, it would be a bigger dog. One like a Great Dane or even an American Bulldog.
“I saw this little thing at the shelter we stopped at and I couldn’t leave him. He’s adorable and I figure he’d be great practice since he’s only six weeks old,” she prattles.
“What the hell is this dog going to help us with?” I ask, quirking a brow at my wife.
“For when we have our own baby,” she announces and my heart stills in my chest.
“You want to have a baby?” I wanted children with her but we hadn’t spoken of them. I figured with her just turning twenty-one, we had plenty of time.
“I do want to, Dean, but more than that I am,” Bridget says with a bright smile on her face.
Shit.
I move across the room quickly, take the dog from Bridget’s arms, put it on the floor at our feet, and pull her in my arms. “You’re pregnant?”
“I am,” she whispers, her head tilted back to meet my gaze.
“Fuckin’ love you, Bridget O’Connell,” I state and lean in to capture her mouth.
I couldn’t ask for a better woman to be married to or to have my child.
Holding her to me, I embrace the emotions she fills me with. I’m going to be a dad. I’ll do everything I can to make sure she and our child are protected. In the world we live in, I’ll never allow anyone else to get close to her. Not after what Ember and Sapphire tried to do so many months ago.
I’ve never felt fear as much as I did when I heard the gunshot from inside the house. Marc had been telling me he’d found the person behind the wilted flowers and dead animals. The two bitches who’d been in the house. He’d found out not long before and decided to meet me at the house with the information. Ian had been with him.
It was my fuck up for not having someone sit guard on the house rather than just leaving it to the security system and cameras.
Those two women are no longer an issue. Kit-Kat made sure of it after forcing them to talk. I wanted to know the reasons for their actions and come to find out it was pure jealousy. They wanted what I gave to Bridget and thought I kept Jewel as well. No, that bitch is sitting in a cell on my father-in-law’s property in Ireland. We haven’t decided what to do with her but I didn’t give a shit. She’s out of my way.
The only person we have to worry about still is Kean. He’d gone underground and none of us could find him. I refuse to let my guard down when it comes to him. I know he’ll be coming after us soon enough and when he does, I’ll make my move.
He won’t get away with what he did to Bridget or me.
Now that I’ve found out I’m going to be a dad, I’ll become the man I need to be in full. I’m ruthless in my world but when it comes to my family, I’ll become cold-blooded. No one will ever cause harm to my wife again.
Otherwise, I’ll be sure they meet the end of my gun.
Bridget’s my life and I won’t have her taken from me. Even if it means following in her father’s footsteps and keeping the contracts in place for the peace it gives the Alliance.
I only hope it works out the same for Mitch as it has for me. He agreed to allow this after I informed him of my decision and we’ll soon be heading back for him to claim his wife. It’s now time for him to entwine his life to hers as I’ve embraced my wife into mine.
The End . . .
Wanna know what happened to Jordan, be sure to check out Badger’s Claim!
Dear Readers,
I hope you all have enjoyed Embraced. I know it was a long time waiting for Dean and Bridget’s story to be finished from where it’d been in the Guns Blazing anthology. As you know, this is the first book in the Aligned Hearts series and I look forward to you all getting Entwined this spring.
Mitch and Alison’s story is one you won’t want to miss.
Sincerely,
Frozen Valentine
Blake
The first thing you learn as a kid is ‘stranger danger’, but they don’t tell you what to do when a tall, tattooed, dangerous man shows up out of nowhere.
I know I should make him leave. He’s surely capable of fending for himself, but it’s the middle of winter, the roads are icy and around these parts that can mean a death sentence. I don’t have any other choice but to help this handsome stranger.
My heart has been broken one too many times, and I’ve refused to let anyone back in.
Can I keep this man from melting my heart with his charm, or will it be as frigid as it was yesterday?
Today is Valentine’s after all, and stranger things have happened.
Venom’s Prize
Venom
Venom runs through my veins the same way ice freezes in the midst of winter. I’m not a man to be crossed, nor one to be played with.
Danger comes swirling around the club and I do what it takes to keep the targets off my brothers’ backs. I’ve killed in war and I have no problem doing it again, whenever the day might come.
When a blast from the past lands on my doorstep, I’m not sure what to say, or what to do. I have two options right now—bring her in or show her the door. That is, until she steps aside to show me my prize. Either way, the prize will always be mine.
Fuse’s Hold
Fuse
Being who I am, most people, not a member of the club, assume I got my road name for being able to fix shit and my brains. What I’m really known for is my short fuse. Being a part of the Inferno’s Clutch MC, I handle shit for the club that could easily put me behind bars for years. I also go to fights to release the aggression that builds within me.
When she entered my life, I realized quickly she can anger me in ways not many can. It makes me despise the way I’m attracted to her. She’s nothing I normally go for. Worst of all, I hate that I have to bring her close to me in order to protect her from whoever’s after her.
Will I be able to control my temper? Or even be able to hold back the temptation to make her mine?
Nora’s Outrage
Nora
After all Breaker and I went through when we first got together, you would think it would all be uphill from here. No one should have to go through what we have. Drama has been swirling around the club for a while now and it seems the danger attached is coming our way once agai
n.
In a way that could change everything.
I’m not ready for the outcome or even the rage that becomes all consuming. Screaming in outrage I vow to make those who come after the ones I care about endure the same pain they cause with their actions.
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