Page 96 of Besieged

If it took the rest of my life, so be it.

And if it took the next life, that was just another I got with her.

When I pulled up outside of Haley’s townhouse, she was already sitting on the porch, waiting for me. She stood up and walked to my Jeep, opened the door, and slid into the passenger seat.

“Hi,” she greeted me with a grin before leaning across the center console to kiss me.

I smiled against her lips. “Hey, yourself.”

“How was golf?”

“Your brother kicked all of our asses, as usual.”

She chuckled when Maverick stuck his face up front for her attention. “Hello to you, too, Mav.” She reached back and pet him before turning back around and buckling her seatbelt as I started down the road. “So, where are we going?”

“Don’t know,” I answered with a shrug as I stopped at the end of the street before pulling out onto the main road. “I thought we’d figure it out once we get there, wherever ‘there’ is.”

Haley looked at me from the passenger seat and grinned at my idea for a random drive.

I reached over, taking her hand in mine and lifting it to my lips, pressing a kiss to her knuckles before resting our now intertwined hands on my lap.

“Blake?”

“Hm?”

Haley smiled. “Tell me something real.”

I squeezed her hand, returning her smile with my own. “I love you, baby girl. That’s as real as it gets.”