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Then Nicholas’s features sober, grow serious

"ButLogan"

I lifthim, because I already know

"You don’t have to say it I understand I’ll speak with Winston in the "

"YOU STUCK-UP, ARROGANT SON OF a bitch!"

I yell the words as I charge into Nicholas and Olivia’s private dining roo Arc on the French battlefield I caht after he finished e or sexy dark clothes or whatever the hell bodyguards have to turn in when they stop being bodyguards

I love Nicholas, he’s a great guy--which

"Ellie!" My sister stands up

"He fired Logan," I tell her Then I only have conde "How could you do this to hi to hireen and unsurprised He tosses his napkin on the table "For the record, I didn’t fire hined"

"But you would have fired hined"

"Yes, I would have"

Slowly, an to guard you or Ellie than I would ask a surgeon to operate on his wife I’ve been in his shoes I’ve had to choose between duty and love, and I kno it ends"

"That doesn’t uard, and be with me"

"Really?" my brother-in-law asks "And hoould that work, exactly? The upco festivities--did you want Logan to coined that Being on Logan’s ar with him--while he’s clad in a sharp, perfectly fitted tuxedo like Ja Bond

Mama like

"Wellyeah I do want that"

Nicholas nods "And hoill he enjoy the party, attend to youand guard the door at the sa frustrated, because I see the sense Nicholas is --and I don’t want to

"He wouldn’t have to be on duty then"

"All right, then let’s iine hoill be when he is on duty Picture it--we’re all at an event together, shaking hands, accepting flowers Then, suddenly a shot rings out What does Logan do? Who does he cover first?"

"I don’t know"

"Yes, you do Don’t think, just ansho?"

I say the first answer that pops into an would cover"Of course he would Just as he should--I would expect nothing less" His eyes dart to my sister "But the fact remains that I have to think of Olivia, of our children And for the uard her, she an very ly depend on his for you have compromised him and he’s unable to fulfill the duties of his position It’s as si it in Crushing guilt

"It’s not fair"

"Life often isn’t," Nicholas says gently "Logan had a clear choice toHe knew he could have you or his job--not both And he chose you"

"I STILL THINK IT SUCKS"

I’ rooainst the unfairness of life, watching her hang soft yellow drapes on the rods I installed thisone ofon her--but when she stretches up high to li

She has such a lovely arse I want to kiss her there, lick her there, hear the high-pitched whine in her voice as she comes while I fuck her there My cock juts out, hard and ready, and my balls throb

She needs to finish those bloody curtains Quickly