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I nudged his shoulder. “Besides that,” I said.
He scrubbed a hand over his face, frustrated beyond measure. “Nataliya?—”
I kissed him. He was rigid for a moment, and then he groaned, and his hands sank into my hair. Adrian pulled me onto his lap so that I sat astride his hips. His hands ran up and down my back, squeezed my ass, cupped my breast. It was like he couldn’t decide what he wanted, but everything he was doing was driving me crazy.
I moved from his lips to his neck, feeling the buzz of his moans against my lips as much as I heard them. This is a bad idea, I thought as I bit at his pulse point softly. We couldn’t keep falling into each other like this, using sex as a narcotic to dull our pain—but if it was wrong, why did it have to feel so good? No man could set fire to my nerves like Adrian; no one had even come close.
Adrian took hold of me beneath my thighs, picking me up as he stood. “Bed?” he mumbled between kisses.
I nodded. “Bed.”
He carried me across the room, and I bounced as he dropped me to the already mussed mattress. I watched as he yanked his t-shirt over his head; my eyes raked down his chest, and he smirked. “I like that look,” he said, and I shivered at how deep his voice had gotten.
“What look?” I asked.
He smirked. “Like you need me to touch you.”
“I do need you to touch me,” I said and sat up. “But I need to touch you too.” I reached out and dragged him down to me. We kissed, and my hands traveled the length of his torso. He groaned into my mouth.
Someone pounding at the door startled us apart, and Adrian was off me in an instant, grabbing at his shirt and the gun he’d placed on the bedside table. “Get down,” he bit back at me, motioning for me to get on the floor on the other side of the bed. I followed his direction and knelt so that the mattress blocked me from whoever come through the door.
I heard Adrian open the door, and then a sigh. “What the hell took y’all so long?” he barked. “Nataliya, you can get up.”
I stood, still a touch cautious, but I relaxed when I saw Gabe and Zach. “You made it back.”
Zach didn’t look thrilled. “Finally.” He gestured at Gabe. “This asshole circled the city during peak traffic.”
“For safety!” Gabe pointed out.
“We weren’t being followed,” Zach said. “I’ll bet Adrian didn’t drive for nearly four fucking hours.”
We, in fact, had not, but neither Adrian nor I was going to point that out, not when Zach looked like he was a second away from smoke coming out of his ears. Gabe held up the takeout bag in his hand. “We did bring dinner, though.”
Zach snorted. “It’s probably cold by now.” He set his eyes on me and Adrian. “Tell me good news,” he said. “Please.”
Adrian glanced at me, and I could see that whatever good mood I was able to work him into disappeared in an instant. “Well, we have good and bad news.”
“Good news first,” Zach said.
“We have a mountain of evidence that could put Hayes away for a very long time,” Adrian said.
“Bad news?” Gabe asked cautiously.
“We might have uncovered a conspiracy within the Department of Defense,” I said. “And Congress.”
“Might have?”
“Definitely have.”
Zach swore, and Gabe put the food down, half-ready to punch something. “God damn it,” he said, and Adrian wholeheartedly agreed with him.
EIGHTEEN
NATALIYA
“Let’s look on the bright side,” I said as Adrian finished filling Gabe and Zach in on what we’d found.
“What the fuck is the bright side?” Zach snapped at me. “The people we worked for sold us out.”
