Chapter 130Dante’s POV I reported to base the next morning.Laila stood at the door of our coastal house in my oversized shirt, her belly round and soft under the fabric, her hair still loose from the night before. She had made coffee. She pressed a cup into my hands before I could reach for my jacket and she looked at me with those dark steady eyes that always saw more than I gave her credit for.“You will tell me when you can,” she said. Not a question.“Yes.”“And until then?”“Until then you stay close to home. Don’t go to the beach alone at night.”She studied my face. “That bad?”“Probably nothing,” I said. “But I don’t take chances with you.”She nodded slowly. Then she took the coffee cup back from my hands, set it on the counter, and held my face in both her palms the way she always did. She kissed me. Long and soft and completely unhurried, like she had all the time in the world and intended to use it. I held her waist and kissed her back and tried not to think about the e
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