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“Wait, this man is having you kill people because he’s jealous? You guys get involved in that kind of drama?”
Garrison laughed darkly. “Half of our jobs are based on this kind of drama. All that matters to Julius is that the people we’re taking down are scummy too; the reasons we’re getting paid to do it don’t really matter.”
“You have to admit that this setup sounds a little bizarre.”
“It’s ridiculous, but it should be a cut and dry job. They’re all doofuses, so it won’t take long to get in, make a bloody mess of killing them, and get out. Blaze said that there isn’t much security from the digital standpoint, as far as he can tell from a distance.”
“We’re going to go in based on what he can tell from across the country?”
Garrison narrowed his eyes at me. “Of course not. He always takes a survey of the situation on location once we arrive. We’re not idiots.”
I held up my hands. “I was just asking. I’ve never worked with anyone before.”
“Right, the lone wolf. You should give us a little credit.”
His tone had turned cutting again. I frowned. “Do you have a problem with me coming along?”
He propped his arms behind his head. “Why would I have a problem with the famous Ghost coming along for a joyride?”
I narrowed my eyes at him. “I don’t know. Why don’t you tell me?”
“How about this?” Garrison said. “You don’t know who you are or where you belong, so you sure as hell can’t know how you’ll fit in with us. That kind of uncertainty gets people killed.”
“The only people who are going to get killed tonight are the ones we were hired to kill. I’m absolutely certain about that. I don’t let my personal life get in the way of a mission.”
“So you say. I’m just not all that keen on giving that theory a test run with real guns and real bad guys.”
I pushed off the wall and stepped closer to him. If he was going to try to push my buttons, I’d push his right back. “Is that really it, or are you worried about your own performance? You do seem to have a habit of getting a little… distracted when I’m around.”
Garrison scoffed. “Now you’re just making shit up.”
I let a knowing smile play with my lips. “I don’t think so. Although if you’ve forgotten what happened the last time we were up here, maybe you should get that head of yours checked out.”
He shoved himself out of the lounger to face me eye to eye. The heat in his gaze scorched through me all the way to my pussy. “I remember that you couldn’t keep your hands off me. I’d say that makes you the problem more than me.”
I snorted. “Oh, yeah, and you were such an unwilling participant.”
Garrison’s tongue flicked across his lips, and the sight sent another wash of heat through me. If he was a complication, then yeah, some part of me wanted to dive right in. Especially if that would mean releasing the tension that’d been building between us since the first time I’d planted my lips on his days ago.
“Why shouldn’t I take what’s freely offered?” he said. “It doesn’t mean I’m going to be dreaming about happily ever afters while we’re getting down to work.”
I cocked my head. “Who said anything about happily ever after? Ecstatic right now sounds good to me.”
He waggled his eyebrows, taking a step closer. “I’m glad you have so much confidence in my ability to make you scream.”
“I don’t know. So far you seem to be all hot air and no follow-through.”
I gave him a light nudge to the chest, both to provoke him and as an excuse to feel the taut, lean muscles beneath his button-up. Oh boy, did he respond. The next second, I found myself shoved against the wooden wall with Garrison’s hands on my waist and his hips pressed tight against mine.
“I’ll show you follow-through,” he muttered, his breath searing over my lips, and slammed his mouth into mine.
The times before, there’d been a hint of hesitation to his kiss. Even when our mouths had collided and he’d kissed me back with a surge of passion, part of him had been holding back, not quite letting go.
This was different. He was taking what he wanted with every particle of his body where it aligned with mine, and the need radiating through him turned me into a puddle.
His tongue swept into my mouth, clearing away all tastes that weren’t him. I wound my arms around his waist, pulling him closer as I rose to my toes to deepen the kiss. One of his hands rose to twine his fingers in my hair, hanging loose down my back. He tugged, pulling my head back to expose my neck to him.
Garrison kissed his way down to the hollow of my throat with a force that left me breathless. When he nipped my collarbone, I gasped. His grip on me tightened. I’d known he had a fire in him that could burn us up together, and now that he was releasing it, I wanted nothing more than to go to all the way up in flames.
