Code Name - Rook (Jameson Force Security 6)

“It’s beautiful,” she murmurs as she lifts the ring out. “And not what I expected.”

“You were expecting wedding bands, right?” I ask with a laugh.

Blushing, she nods. “I thought you’d try to strong-arm me that way with beautiful wedding rings.”

“Well, those are coming,” I assure her, taking the ring from her hand. “But this is something different.”

I pull her right hand up, then slip the ring onto her fourth finger. We stare down at the simple platinum band that has an infinity symbol made of diamonds that weave around the top.

“This is a promise ring,” I explain, running the tip of my finger over the diamonds. “The infinity symbol signifies that I will love you forever, and I will always be loyal to you.”

“Oh, Cage,” she murmurs, eyes now filling with tears. “It’s wonderful. I’ll never take it off.”

Grinning, I grip her by the back of the neck and draw her face in closer. “That works for me, as long as you’re willing to take off all your clothes now.”

Laughing, she gives me a swift kiss before drawing back, her hands going to the hem of her sweater to pull it off. “That I can do.”CHAPTER 29Jaime“So this is it, huh?” I ask Cage as we roll up to the place he works in his Maserati. Yeah, that was a surprise… a sports car so expensive I’m actually afraid to touch anything inside it. Cage even asked me if I wanted to drive it, and I’d looked at him in horror.

“You’ve got a lot of new stuff to get used to,” he admitted.

Boy, did I ever.

Our reunion last Saturday night ended up turning into a weekend-long honeymoon to make up for lost time. Cage promised to take me somewhere tropical when I was able to get time off work, but we enjoyed ourselves, nonetheless.

We pretty much stayed in bed, the shower, or the kitchen eating, with the one exception where Cage said he wanted to just lay on the couch together and watch a movie.

That was nice. Lying on our sides, him behind me with his arm secured firmly around my waist as we watched True Lies. It was my pick, and he laughed when I pulled it up, not missing the irony of the movie at all. We had both seen it before, so as we watched, we talked some, cuddled at other times, and then started a make-out session that ended up with me naked and flat on my back.

The only other thing of importance we did was notify our families. I made a call to my mom to let her know I decided to give our marriage a shot, and she promised to pass that on to my dad and Brian. I called Laney myself with the news, and she was ecstatic.

Cage called his parents, then put me on the phone with his mother. I was mortified, not knowing what to say, but within thirty seconds, that woman put me completely at ease. By the end of the call, she’d extracted the promise from me that I was to call her “mom.”

Now that we’re officially one week into our renewed marriage, Cage returned to work at Jameson. I went back to my job, too. We let our coworkers know of our impromptu Vegas wedding. Most of mine didn’t know much to begin with—other than the fact I had been dating someone—and they found it impulsively romantic.

Those friends of mine who had all met Cage that first night and knew him to be a “car salesman” had to be told the full truth. So I made those calls and had a few lunches with the girls to tell them the whole story. They found it foolishly romantic and were thrilled I was happy.

But today is the day I’m actually going to meet the people at Jameson. I’ve obviously met Anna and Malik. I had glimpses of Jackson and Ladd as they were in on the rescue, but I’ve learned over the past week that Cage has a vast network of people he’s incredibly close to at Jameson, just by the bonds that are forged through dangerous work.

He’s told me most of the stories. How Kynan saved his wife Joslyn from a stalker, how Cruce fell in love with the president’s niece while protecting her, and how Saint infiltrated a dangerous criminal ring in France to thwart a massive diamond heist. Of course, he fell in love with one of his fellow thieves.

All amazing stories, but none quite as cool as Bebe’s, and I can’t wait to meet her. She spent years in prison for something she was forced to do to protect her son. Kynan pulled strings, got her released, and she’s now the chief technology officer—or as Cage calls her “genius hacker”—for the company.

So many more stories—like when he and his best friend, Bodie, who works in the Vegas office, got taken prisoner and Cage had been shot in the leg. That boggled me, and yet… it’s who Cage is. He had offered to quit his job if it scared me too much, and while I admit it’s giving me heartburn, I can also see that his passion for what he does runs too deep to ever take it from him. He did promise me, though, that if I ever came to a point where the burden of worry became too much, he’d leave with no questions asked or attempts to get me to change my mind.