And I wanted to hold her.
Maybe that made me a pussy or something, but I liked the idea of having a woman to hold at night. And no one fit so comfortably in my arms like she did.
The minutes dragged by as I waited impatiently for the plane to shut down and the stairs to lower. I was practically bouncing on my feet, ready to run over and drag her off the plane.
And Sinner knew it.
He kept chuckling, shaking his head at me. Yes, I was falling for her. I didn’t even know if it was real or just the excitement of something new. Hell, I hadn’t been with a woman who made me feel this way in a long time.
How did I know if any of it was real?
Finally, she stepped onto the stairs, and that was it for me. I was stalking toward her, ready to claim her as mine as soon as her feet hit the ground.
“Save it for the bedroom!” Sinner called behind me.
As soon as she was off the stairs, I wrapped my arm around her waist and tugged her to me. Her lips met mine in a flurry of passion and promises of things to come. But it was the way her fingertips trailed lightly along my jaw that really set me off.
Growling, I pulled her tighter, grinding my erection into her. A playful chuckle tickled my lips as she pulled back and looked into my eyes.
“Geez, alright. I get the point. You missed me.”
“Don’t fucking play with me.”
“Oh, you haven’t seen me play yet.” Her face turned serious with every second that passed. “You know, the next time you want to see me, you don’t have to invent a crisis where I have to rush to your aid.”
“I wish that was the case.”
“So, what’s the job, boss?”
Anger rumbled in my chest, and no matter how hard I tried to tamp it down, nothing worked. “Just so you know, I’m not okay with you being here.”
“Understood.”
“I may become a jealous ass and say or do things that make you mad.”
“You don’t say,” she smirked at me.
“You will listen to me every step of the way, and if you do something I don’t like, you will pay for it later.”
“Ooh, spankings,” she said, waggling her eyebrows at me.
That only made me mad and turned on at the same time, which was difficult to decide how to deal with. Wrapping my arm around her shoulder, we walked back to Sinner and the waiting vehicle. I didn’t like being out here, exposed like this. But I also dreaded heading back to the hotel where we would inevitably put our plan in place and her in danger.
“Aren’t we going to wait for Claire and Derek?” she asked, looking over her shoulder at the couple who were most likely mounting each other.
“They can get the next vehicle. I’m sure they want their privacy.”
I was surprised when she snuggled into my side, wrapping her arm around my waist. “So, do you really need my help, or were you just saying that to get back on my good side?”
I was about to open her door, but boxed her in against the vehicle instead. “Trust me, if there was a way to keep you out of this, I would. There’s nothing I want more than to make sureyou’re as far away from these assholes as possible. But since you are so insistent that this woman doesn’t come to any harm, we’ll do things a little differently.”
“I’ll do whatever I can to help.”
“Good,” I smiled at her, brushing my thumb across her lower lip.
All I wanted to do was take her home and fuck, make her wish for a life with me, but none of that was possible until we got out of this mess. Then I could convince her to come home with me, to stay with me at Reed Security. I had a feeling it wouldn’t be easy, but what other alternative was there?
“I think there’s something you need to know before we move forward.”