Epilogue
Six months later…
L evi stepped off the plane and hefted his duffle bag over one shoulder as he made his way toward the inside of the airport.
“Where are you headed to?” West asked, walking quickly at his side.
“Home,” he said.
They had just returned from his last mission, and he’d been away from Sara at a time when he needed to be there. His only comfort was that Lily and Michelle were with her.
“You?” Levi tossed West a glance.
“I’m heading out in the morning, so I got a hotel for the night.”
“Alright, man, keep in touch and stay safe.” Levi shook West’s hand when they reached the outside of the terminal.
“You too, enjoy retirement,” West cackled. “If you call being a bodyguard retired.”
“Ass,” Levi muttered, but he was smiling. “See ya.”
Sliding into the back of the Uber that would take him to Sara, he gazed out the window, thinking about the past six months.
Sara had dropped a bombshell on him that day in the garden.
She was going to have his baby.
He was going to be a father.
And once the information moved past the shocked stage, he grabbed onto it like a lifeline.
Sara and the baby grounded him like nothing in his life ever had.
He wanted to spend his life with her and the baby, and that day in his parents’ garden, he had told her exactly that.
She didn’t believe him, of course. It was written on her face, but he’d suggested they take a vacation together to talk and get to know each other, and Sara had agreed.
They’d ended up at a resort in the Bahamas.
And it was there that he gave it his all. It was there that he promised her he would be there.
To solidify his promise, he pulled out the calendar and together they picked a date to get married. Marriage had been something he vowed he would never do, but with Sara, his life choices were different.
With her, he found that everything was altered. He now craved what he hadn’t wanted prior to her. And now, commitment, marriage, children, and a family were all he could think about.
After the Bahamas, he had helped her with selling her home and finding one near the beach.
When she suggested putting his name on the title, he shook his head.
“After we get married.”
The only hard part so far was removing himself from Aries completely.
Will hadn’t been pleased, but the man understood. After all, they were family.
When the Uber pulled up, Levi grabbed his bag and walked up the front walkway. Flower beds were filled with wild flowers. The grass was lush and the trees green, but all that faded into the background beneath his anticipation of seeing Sara.
His world centered around her and the baby in her stomach. They would become his lifeline. They would give him a life he had only dreamed of.
And he was looking forward to living every minute of it.
He rang the doorbell and waited.
The feeling of being content settled him, and he knew why.
It was because of Sara.
He felt complete when he was with her.
His world felt right.
Sara stood in the kitchen of the charming house she’d bought two months ago.
The view from the window over the sink was of the ocean. Finding the home for sale on the coast had been like winning the lottery, and she was sure her parents had pulled some strings.
White and gray clouds shot across the sky, only brightened by flashes of sunlight filtering through.
It was a typical day in Seattle. If they were lucky, they’d see the sun today.
Scattered showers were predicted, but it wouldn’t stop the party going on beneath the covered patio.
Laughter filtered through the closed glass patio doors, and the smell of food grilling on the barbecue drifted through the air.
When the doorbell rang, she turned slowly around and walked out of the kitchen and across the entryway. After checking through the window to the right, she opened the door.
“How are my girls?” Levi said, his voice a deep, husky sound that she loved.
His blue eyes searched her face, then dropped to her belly.
She smiled and placed her hands beneath her swollen stomach. At nine months pregnant, she was due any time.
“I’m fine, she is doing somersaults.”
“Hmm.” He smiled, moved her away from the door, and booted it closed.
She drank him in. He’d been gone from her for two weeks, and she had yearned for him every minute.
Voices filtered in from the backyard.
“Who’s all here?”
“The gang.”
Which consisted of Lily, Max, Michelle, William, and Rowan Morgan, the newest bodyguard recruit.
Levi wrapped her up in his arms, and she let him hold her.
Their relationship had been a whirlwind of activity over the past six months. First thing they had done was to take a trip together. Levi had suggested the Bahamas, and Sara had loved the idea.
It was there lazing around in the sun and sand that she had gotten to know the man in her arms. It was there that they had begun a life together.
Their only real fight had been when she wanted to put Levi’s name on this house. He had flat-out said no. The man had argued that it wasn’t his money. Sara had volleyed right back that it would be his when they got married.
It was still a hard no. But she forgave him. She got that he was prideful, and Levi refused to take money from his parents.
She didn’t mind. She wouldn’t change Levi for the world.
She loved him just the way he was. They didn’t always get along, but their love was growing stronger day by day, and that love kept them together when the going got rough.
They were both stubborn.
Yet so alike in many ways.
Levi was her perfect match.
Her heartbreak hero turned out to be the love of her life.
THE END