“Travis and Kade Harrison?” Lara asked, her voice slightly awed.
Tate frowned, not particularly liking the fact that Lara sounded impressed. “You’ve heard of them?”
Lara snorted. “Who hasn’t? Kade Harrison was a famous quarterback and a billionaire, and Travis Harrison is a brilliant businessman. I think it’s great that they both contribute.”
“We don’t just contribute,” Tate answered. “We run the whole operation. Jason Sutherland manages the financials and the rest of us do fundraising and other tasks that need to be done.”
She pulled back to look at him. “Is every billionaire in America involved? Sheesh! Jason Sutherland, too?”
“Not all of them…yet. But we’re working on it.” He grinned at her, proud of the organization that all of them had formed to combat domestic abuse.
“I really would like to get involved,” Lara mused.
“I offered.” Tate knew now why she’d refused. “Now that you’re going to be my wife, maybe you’ll feel like you can be involved in any way you want to.” He hesitated for moment before he added, “I don’t ever want to hold you back from anything you want to do. I’d move to Washington if you want me to so you can continue to be an agent.”
Fuck. That hurt!
The last thing he wanted was for Lara to put herself in danger every day as an FBI agent. But he didn’t want her unhappy either. He would stand beside her with whatever she wanted to do, but that didn’t mean he had to particularly like it.
“I like Colorado,” Lara admitted softly. “And we’d have family here.”
Tate’s heart swelled at the fact that Lara was going to consider his family as her family, too. It had been a long time since she’d had family who really cared. “You might find them a little overwhelming at times.” Tate knew he did. In fact, sometimes they drove him bat-shit crazy. But he loved every member of his family fiercely and considered himself lucky to be part of the Colter family.
“Solitude is highly overrated,” Lara told him thoughtfully. “I’d love to have family.”
“Well, get ready, baby, because you’re going to have a lot of it now.” He paused. “So how are you going to feel about giving up your career? Or are you going to just transfer to the Denver office?”
Damn. That hurt, too. But I have to make sure she has all of her options. This has to be her choice.
“Well, I’m actually going to have a very rich husband, so I think I’ll ask him if he’s willing to support us for a while if I go back to school.”
Tate let out a giant whoop. “Hell yeah, he would. He’s loaded.” He kissed her forehead. “I have to admit, I’m relieved.”
She cocked her head and looked at him as she said, “Thank you for giving me the option to be free to do whatever I want, even though you might not like my decision.”
“I’m perfectly happy with your decision,” Tate told her enthusiastically.
“It’s nice to know that you’re going to be the type of husband who would stand by me no matter what I wanted to do with my own career.” She cuddled back against his chest. “You’re pretty special.”
He didn’t feel special at all. Selfishly, he wanted her out of the field, but…
“I want you to be happy,” he told her earnestly.
“I know. I feel the same way. Are you going to tell me exactly what you still do for the government?”
Tate shrugged. “Not a lot, and it’s not dangerous, but I still work for them on a consulting basis. If they’re having problems with a particular Special Forces mission, I help them out. I don’t go out in the field anymore. It’s strictly strategy.”#p#分页标题#e#
“So you’re a warfare genius?” she teased.
“Actually…yeah, I am. I always have been. Strategy and covert missions are my specialty.” He was good at those things, so why deny it? He’d never exactly been modest, and he wanted Lara to know who he really was, all of his strengths…and weaknesses.
“Are you going to tell me what you were doing in Special Ops?”
“Working?” he tried.
“Tate,” she said in that warning voice that really turned him on.
What the hell; they were getting married. “The team I worked for doesn’t exist to most of the military or civilians. You were right when you said it was extremely covert and some of what we did was actually black ops. You’re the only one who knows. I couldn’t even tell my family exactly what I did, so I went on letting them think I was a SEAL. I was recruited after SEAL training because they needed another pilot for their team.” His woman had already been pretty damn smart and figured that out, but he confirmed it anyway.