Chapter 90

He was also going to stop being a chicken shit and get a vasectomy. Ensure there’d be no more issues. Ensure he never fucked up another woman’s life again.

And he was going to have to move. Leave Tyler, Texas. He couldn’t see Luc and Kimber together day after day, year after year. After he ensured that she didn’t take the pill-bottle way out of life, leaving was the only way he could deal. And there was no fucking way he could watch them build a life together.

Even now, when he knew all was well and that he should leave them, he couldn’t make himself walk away from her. Instead, he knelt by the bed. Kimber’s sleep-lax hand was right in front of him, and he took it gently so he didn’t wake her. But even he felt the desperation in his touch as he brought her fingers closer to his lips and pressed a bittersweet kiss to the back of her hand, trying not to crush her.

God, he loved her. Somehow, even when he’d worked for the Colonel and she’d been seventeen, some part of him ha