Total pages in book: 106
Estimated words: 105231 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 526(@200wpm)___ 421(@250wpm)___ 351(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 105231 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 526(@200wpm)___ 421(@250wpm)___ 351(@300wpm)
“Come to bed,” she said.
“Actually, I have something for you.” He reached over and opened the bedside drawer, pulling out a jewelry box.
“What is it?” she asked.
He opened it. “I’ve got a necklace for you.”
With a gasp, she sat up and fingered the gold chain. The pendant was a black shiny heart surrounded in small diamonds. “It’s beautiful. It’s really for me?”
“It is. There’s a tracker in the pendant.”
“Really? Wow.”
“I want you to wear it all the time.” He slid it around her neck and did it up. “Do you promise me that you won’t take it off?”
“What about in the shower?”
“You keep it on all the time. Promise me.”
“I promise.”
He wanted to start some research into her ex. But that pout on her face was too hard to resist. He climbed in next to her, wrapping himself around her as they both lay on their sides.
His dick grew hard again, pressing against her ass. Fuck. His balls were aching. He’d been hard ever since he’d caught sight of her outfit for tonight and it felt like he hadn’t gone down much since.
She must have felt his hard dick pressing against her because she rolled over and slid down his body, taking his cock into her mouth.
“Baby, you don’t have to do anything,” he told her.
Surely she was too tired.
But she simply hummed and took him deeper into her mouth before swallowing.
Fuck.
She was so damn good at that. He lay back and let her play. She sucked, she stroked, and she licked his dick until he came with a quiet yell.
But she didn’t draw away from him and he pulled back the covers to stare down at her. “Everything all right, baby?”
“Can I keep sucking?” she asked. “Just for a while. I like it. It makes me feel safe. A bit like when you have control.”
Well, if it made her feel better, then he wasn’t going to stop her.
“Go for it, baby.”
So he lay there, drifting as she sucked quietly on his cock.
And without meaning to, he fell asleep.
36
“Mother-fucking bastard!” he yelled, jumping to his feet. “Alexa!”
“Boss, I’m just in the other room and I have excellent hearing. You don’t have to scream,” Alexa said as she strolled into the room. “What’s up?”
“I need you to do a full check on Aadan Joseph. That’s a false name, he was someone else up until a few years ago. He now lives in Africa somewhere near Tanzania and he works for a wanted war criminal.”
She tensed. “Who?”
“The General.”
Alexa whistled. “Bossman, why are you looking into him? He’s no good. Too many red flags, even for me. Of course I don’t want someone cruel. I want a Robin Hood type.”
Lord, she was a worry.
But for the moment she was safe and he wasn’t certain that his girl was.
Picking up his phone, he called Tyler. He ignored the fact that he’d just called him an hour ago to check in.
“Brother, so nice to hear from you. I swear, you never call, you never text—”
“Is she all right?” he interrupted.
Once Tyler got on a spiel it could be hard to get him off.
Tyler sighed. “And when you do call it’s never about me. She’s fine. I promise. We’re at her apartment and apparently, there’s some protest this weekend that she wants to go take photos of so she’s working out the logistics.”
“A protest? I don’t like the sound of that,” he said. “Too many unknowns that could put her at risk.”
“You think everything is too much of a risk. But we’re going to go scope out the area today. Or is that a no-no too?”
Travis grunted. “Rather you stayed at home.”
“You can’t lock her up, Travis. She needs to live her life.”
“Not if it means she travels to some of the most dangerous areas of the world. Just let me know where she wants to go and when.”
He’d see if he could get home to take her. Not that he didn’t trust Tyler, but . . . he just didn’t trust him as much as he did himself.
Ending the call, he glanced over to find Alexa doing a headstand against the wall of his office.
“What are you doing?” he asked.
“Waiting. I like to be productive.”
Okay. He knew better than to ask. He really did. “I need everything on the General and Joseph, although that’s not his real name and I need it immediately.”
“All right, bossman. But why? We’re not going after them, are we? I mean, I like a challenge . . . but sheesh.”
“Do you know much about them?” he asked.
“Nothing about Joseph. But the General is a bad guy. Pretty sure he’s on Interpol’s Wanted List.”
“Caren got tangled up with Joseph and I want to make sure they’re not going to be a risk to her.” He explained about her meeting Joseph, then leaving.