“In case you do, I need the nicest suite together with the best champagne.”

Callum threw again his head with amusing. “Now you care in regards to the finer issues?”

“Since I’ve waited twenty-one years to have intercourse, I feel I deserve it. Particularly since I didn’t get a honeymoon.”

His fingers got here to cup my face. “Kitten, you deserve the world.”

After propping the broom in opposition to the desk, I undid my apron. Slinging it to a chair, I stated, “Let’s go.”

Callum shortly deserted the mop and bucket and took me by the hand. “If that is the reward I’m going to get for volunteering, I’m going to need to do it extra typically.”

I elbowed him within the ribs. “Cease speaking earlier than you spoil this for me.”

As we stepped into the sunshine, he grinned down at me. “As soon as I’ve you bare beneath me, I plan to do quite a lot of speaking. I plan to let you know every pleasurable factor I’m going to do to you and the way sizzling it makes me really feel. Then I’m going to let you know what I need you to do to me.”

A jolt of lust shot by way of me. “Perhaps I’ll need to gag you.”

Callum jerked me in opposition to him. “Rattling, Kitten, I didn’t know you had a kinky facet.” Whereas he nodded at Owen to open the SUV’s backdoor, he introduced his lips to mine. Though I ought to’ve objected to creating out on the sidewalk in entrance of St. Francis’s, I couldn’t convey myself to place up a battle.

The sound of my moan echoing by way of my ears was overtaken by a cracking noise. Earlier than I might register it, Callum’s physique pulsed like he’d been touched by a reside wire. As he slammed in opposition to me, the crackling noises began up once more. Horror whirled by way of me as I acknowledged what these noises had been.

They had been bullets.

Somebody was capturing at us.

As an alternative of attempting to make it the automobile, Callum slung my physique to the bottom earlier than overlaying it along with his. “Keep down!” he croaked as a shaky hand reached into his jacket for his gun. Once I turned my head on the pavement, Owen and Shane crouched by the SUV returning fireplace. Screams and shouts of panic sliced by way of the air round me.

When the gunfire silenced, Shane stayed behind the SUV whereas Owen ran over to us. “Are you alright?” he requested.

Ignoring him, Callum’s panicked gaze searched my face and physique. “Caterina, had been you hit?”

Trembling, I couldn’t communicate so I resorted to shaking my head. “However there’s blood,” Callum acknowledged.

“Oh fuck,” Owen muttured.

Callum and I each adopted his gaze to the blood gushing from the left facet of Callum’s chest. In that second, the adrenaline depleted, and Callum’s eyes rolled again in his head. With a shriek, I sat as much as catch his head as he pitched to the facet.

“Callum? Callum, stick with me!” I cried.

“We’ve got to get him out of right here!” Owen known as over his shoulder.

Shane deserted the SUV to hurry to our facet. I shouted in protest when Shane knocked me away to assist Owen raise up Callum. “Seize the door!” Owen instructed.

Contemplating the arduous shakes operating by way of my physique, I didn’t know if I might stand, least of all transfer. However I pressed ahead to rise to my toes. Lunging, I made my means over to the SUV and threw open the door.

After climbing inside, I slid throughout the bench seat earlier than turning again in anticipation of Callum. As soon as they lifted him inside, I as soon as once more cradled his head in opposition to me. Owen stripped out of his jacket and pressed it onto Callum’s wound. Disgrace stuffed me that with all my medical coaching I hadn’t thought to do it. The SUV gunned ahead and commenced racing by way of the streets. We sped previous the flashing purple and blue lights of the police as their sirens screamed into the realm.

Tears streamed down my cheeks and dripped onto Callum’s face. I reached again into my days as a sister and known as out to St. Raphael–the patron saint of therapeutic. “Please, please heal my husband,” I murmured as I ran my fingers by way of his hair.

I couldn’t have come this far and skilled such life and love simply to have it taken from me.

Chapter Thirty: Callum

As I wavered between consciousness, I started to listen to my identify being known as faintly. My eyelids fluttered. “He’s coming round,” a powerful voice associated.

It took me a minute to appreciate that I used to be the one being referenced. Once I opened my eyes, I met Quinn and Dare’s frantic faces. “There you’re, brother,” Quinn stated with a smile.

All the things got here speeding again at me so quick I shuddered. We’d been ambushed on the road exterior of St. Francis’s. “C-Caterina?” I choked out.

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