For her.
Because he really loved Mairi.
“Just catch me one more time, and I won’t ever give you a reason to regret it. Just please make me yours—”
Mairi threw herself at him.
Damen’s arms wrapped around her waist instinctively the same time Mairi’s arms curled around his neck.
So many questions flashed through her mind, but she pushed them away. There was time to have them answered later. Her faith in Damen Leventis was restored, the love she had tried so hard to quell bursting out of her heart like an unstoppable flow.
Closing her eyes, she hugged Damen tightly, whispering, “Caught.”
For a moment, Damen was frozen, unable to believe that Mairi was giving him another chance. But when she stayed in his arms, never making any move to go, relief exploded inside him, and his hand shook as he stroked her hair. His voice ragged, he asked, “How long?”
Mairi’s fingers curled against his nape tensely. She knew that when she said the words, she would be taking the biggest risk of her life – and of her child’s.
If she was smart, she would leave Damen Leventis and lead a quiet life alone.
But she didn’t want to be smart.
She wanted to take a risk like Damen did.
And so she whispered, “For as long as you love me—”
The rest of her words was smothered in his kiss.
“Then consider me caught forever, Mrs. Leventis,” Damen muttered before ravaging his wife’s lips. “There’s nothing in this life that will make me stop loving you.”
Chapter Sixteen
She said: To wed a Greek billionaire, one shall be ready for involvement with innovative experiments.
He said: You mean kinky.
She said: You said that, not me.
He said: No more innovative experiments for you if you do not say the K-word.
She said: K…I can’t say it. But I’m thinking it and it’s the thought that counts, right?
Hours later, Mandy and Velvet crowded around her, each of them holding copies of Damen’s book. “Pleeeeaaaase sign our copies, Mrs. Leventis,” Velvet begged in an exaggeratedly loud voice as she fluttered her lashes.
“Shut up,” Mairi said laughingly.
Mandy forced her friend to take her copy. “Sign it.”
Velvet handed Mairi a pen. “And don’t forget to sign it with A Greek Billionaire’s Wife.”
She shook her head, trying to be strong. “No.”
Her friends looked at her. “You know you want to,” Velvet said slyly.
“No.” She was a respectable missus now.
They still just looked at her, their gazes ever knowing.
Oh, what the heck!
Velvet and Mandy burst into laughter as they watched Mairi sign their copies with her four most favorite words. When she returned the copies to her friends, she saw them looking at her with expectant expressions.
Mairi blinked. “What?”
Mandy grinned. “Go on, say it.”
Oh, how well they knew her.
And how terribly lucky she was that they had never abandoned her.
Tears stinging her eyes, Mairi said, “Yay me!” She threw her arms around them. “Group hug!”
“Ewww,” Velvet automatically protested, always the one uncomfortable with emotional displays.
“Oh, hush. You should be used to PDA by now after what you’ve been doing with your own Greek billionaire.”
Mandy said promptly, “I’m not married to a Greek billionaire, so you can let go of me anytime.” The ever practical sort, Mandy also saw no valid reason why affectionate displays should be made in public.
Grinning, Mairi hugged her friends more tightly. “Yay me!”
Mandy and Velvet groaned. “We’ve created a monster.”
Damen frowned. “What about her?”
“Will you…will you ever talk to her again?”
His eyes narrowed, and what he saw on Mairi’s face made him curse silently. “You knew I met with her yesterday, didn’t you?” He didn’t give her time to answer, guilt for once again unintentionally causing Mairi pain making him press his lips to her forehead in a remorseful kiss. “I’m so damn sorry if it made you doubt me, sweetheart, but I swear it was that one time—”