Chapter 49- Finally, Home

Letisha’s POV

How did he manage to look so irresistibly handsome while he was so disheveled? I skittered my fingertips against his jaw.

“Are you going to grow a beard?” I mused aloud. I never thought I’d see my husband anything less than perfectly polished, but this stubble he was sporting was doing something for me.

Maybe I liked beards now? No, that wasn’t it. I just fancied Adrian.

“Little One, focus,” Adrian called, stilling my hand on his cheek. “What did you just say?”

“Hmm? Oh. I said I could never hate the man I love.”

His grip on my waist tightened. “You…love me?”

I tilted my head curiously at the tone in his voice. Was that shock? Surprise? Doubt? I couldn’t allow that, could I?

I took his face between my palms and looked directly into his eyes. Eyes that had seemed so frighteningly dark and cold the first time I’d looked into them. Eyes that now held a tenderness that I now knew was exclusively mine.