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There was no one here. We were locked in.
Maybe I shouldn’t call maintenance.
I watched as the screen light on her phone died.
Her phone was dead. She didn’t know the number for maintenance. If I didn’t make the call, we would be stuck here, and she would be at my mercy until I decided it was time for us to leave.
Then we’d see how she liked it when someone seducedher. She wouldn’t be so cocky when she was on the receiving end of that little game. Oh, and I’d fuck her until she begged for satisfaction, and then I’d make her swear up and down that I would be the only person on the SEAL team she would ever even speak to—
“Brian!”
“What?” I blinked and refocused.
“Are you calling for help?” she demanded. “I don’t want to stay here all night.”
The thunder clapped again rather ominously.
“Right.” As much as I’d liked the fantasy playing out in my head, I knew it was just that—a fantasy. I’d already made this decision. No matter how much I enjoyed thinking about her that way, I wouldn’t let her get under my skin anymore. Our affair could continue, but only within the safe confines of my mind. I wouldn’t touch her.
Except I knew if we were trapped together in this building for much longer, Iwouldtouch her. I was only a man, after all. There was only so much willpower I was going to be able to muster.
I opened my drawer and pulled out the business card I kept there with the phone number for maintenance written on it. Then I reached for the phone.
The lights flickered.
“What the hell?”
But I got my answer a half second later. A flash of lightning lit up the sky outside, followed by the loudest crash of thunder yet, and the room went dark.
The power was out.
We were both quiet for a moment as our eyes adjusted to the darkness, and then Alison broke the silence. “Are the phones out too?”
I felt for the receiver, picked it up, and held it to my ear. It was dead. “Yeah.”
“You have your cell?”“It’s in my car.” I hadn’t brought it in because I hadn’t meant to be inside for more than a moment. Ironic that I’d come in because I’d forgotten my charger, but I’d left my phone in the car.
“So you’re telling me,” Alison said, “that we’re stuck here with no way to get in contact with anyone?”
“I’m sure the power will come back soon,” I told her. “We have to wait this out. We’ll be out of here in no time.”My eyes were beginning to adjust now, and I saw her lean back in her chair and heave a deep sigh. “Great,” she said glumly. “This is just fucking perfect.”
Two hours later, the power still hadn’t come back on, and Alison and I were still stuck inside.
“Do we at least have anything to eat?” Alison groaned. “I’m getting hungry.”
“You didn’t eat before you came here to do espionage?”
“I mean, you don’t need to act like I was skulking around in the bushes,” she said irritably. “This is a legitimate investigation. I’m sorry I came poking around when you weren’t here. You don’t like that. I get it. But there’s no real reason I shouldn’t have done it.”
“Yeah, yeah.” I got to my feet. “We may as well go and see what’s in the fridge in the lunch room. It’s probably all going to go bad, so we should just eat it.
I think she nodded. It was hard to tell in the dim light. The only illumination in the building was coming from the windows, and as the sky outside was so dark, it was still pretty challenging to make out details.
I led the way to the kitchen with Alison trailing me and opened the fridge.
The pickings were surprisingly good. One of the junior officers celebrated a birthday yesterday. Usually, I wouldn’t say I liked to let the team indulge too much, but for some reason, I’d found myself in a good mood, and we’d had a little party, which had been catered. Now there was leftover Italian food in the fridge—a big bowl of salad, trays containing three different types of pasta, some garlic bread, and some cannoli.
I started pulling things out. “It’s cold, but it’s good food, at any rate.”
