When Nico heard Dani say those words, he finally felt complete for the first time in his life. He finally had that once in a lifetime kind of love and he felt so blessed to know that Dani was his now! He cupped Dani's face and they shared a long and passionate kiss. They explored each other until both were breathless and they pulled away at the same time, but still kept their foreheads touching. They just stared into each others eyes. They finished eating their pizza that they had started eating before both said "I love you!" They talked about everything. It just came natural! Dani loved seeing this playful side of Nico! He was flirting, joking around, laughing, and smiling that smile he reserved just for her! He definitely was good at cheering her up. She knew Nico had put up walls to keep everybody out and she was glad he let her in. How someone like Gabriel treated this wonderful man like that, she would never know. Dani was laying in his lap and he was running his fingers through her hair. Nico saw the wheels turning in Dani's head. Dang, she is so beautiful, he thought. How did I get so lucky?! Nico leaned down and gave Dani a quick kiss on the lips and then asked her, "what's going through that pretty head of yours?" "I was just thinking about how much I love seeing this side of you and how I could hit Gabriel for treating you like that, but I am very grateful it didn't work out with the two of you because now we can finally be together," Dani said excitedly! She saw tears in Nico's eyes and she reached up and cupped his cheek. He said,"Dani, thank you! You complete me and I don't want to live my life without you!" Nico pulled Dani up on him so he could kiss her. This kiss was different from their other kisses and as hands started wandering, the buzzing of Nico's phone interrupted them. When Nico read the name of the person calling his eyes grew wide and he looked like he was about to get mad. He turned the phone around and showed Dani the name on the screen...it was Matt. Nico debated on answering, but decided to so Matt wouldn't get suspicious. "Yea Donnely, what do you need?" Nico had the speaker phone on so Dani could hear, which when he saw Dani's expression, he thought maybe that was bad ideal. "Nico, I was just wondering why you didn't bother telling me that the ownership of the facility belonged to someone else. I'm the closest thing to a GM, so I would appreciate it if you kept me in the loop," Matt pretty much yelled at Nico. Nico said smartly, "I was planning on telling everyone at the meeting tomorrow with coach. See you then, Donnely" and Nico hung up the phone. He wrapped his arms around Dani and said, "Dani, we need to talk about tomorrow." He gave her a quick kiss and held her hands while he continued. "While the doctor was checking you out, I made a call to coach and told him what Matt did to you. Coach was furious. We came up with a plan to get you and Matt alone tomorrow after the meeting. Our plan is during the meeting have the team doctor come in and interrupt us by asking you how you are doing and hopefully that will catch Matt off guard and he hopefully will ask to talk to you after the meeting. You will have to wear a bug. I will have Xeno there with us also just in case he tries to hurt you again because he won't think we are there. We will be just down the hall from you watching and listening to every thing. Dani, look at me. Are you up for this?" Dani just shook her head and said, "yea I think so. I just don't want him to try and hurt me again." Nico lifted her chin up and said "you know I won't let him hurt you again. You are not alone and I will always protect you. Don't ever forget get that, Dani!" "Nico, I trust you and I just want Matt out of our lives so we can move forward with the team, TK, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY US. I'm definitely game, especially with you by my side. I love you and thanks for always helping me out with things!" Nico loved her answer and he was just excited about getting to fire Matt and finally moving forward with Dani. He knew that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with this woman and he knew he what he wanted to do next. After the situation with Donnely was taking care of, he was going to ask Dani to marry him!