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14
LUCIUS
I didn’t want to leave. Spending time with Everleigh had been heaven. I knew I was pushing my self-control, but the need to cheer her up, to make her feel normal again, had been too strong to deny.
And the reward was worth whatever shitstorm I’d have to deal with once we got back. Every smile was precious. The beautiful sound of her laughter forever lodged in my heart. I ached to do more than hold her hand. I wanted to strip her clothes off and taste every inch of her. I wanted to sink inside her and forget how I’d met her in the first place.
But touching her was wrong. She was my prisoner. And I didn’t want her to feel like she had to do anything she didn’t want to. When I couldn’t delay it any longer, I walked her back to her office.
She turned to me when we made it back, a small smile still playing on her lips. “Thank you so much for today. It was exactly what I needed.”
I nodded at her, my throat embarrassingly tight, and she closed the door. I leaned my forehead against the wood, fighting the urge to open the door. She already looked lost again, something I’d tried so hard to erase.
“You said one hour. That was three.”
Santino’s angry voice snapped me out of my pity party. I wasn’t one to dwell on things that couldn’t be. And I had a part to play. One I’d neglected over the last few days.
And not just in the compound. My CIA contact was furious that I hadn’t shown up. But Everleigh came first.
But now I had to get my head back in the game, especially since I was so close to getting to Sam’s killer. He had been assassinated when one of our missions had gone wrong. We’d gone on a routine extraction of a diplomat. Our intel turned out to be wrong and instead of coming up against a handful of angry villagers, we’d been faced with an army.
And a sniper that took Sam out as we were about to get on the chopper that would carry us to safety.
“Last I checked, I don’t have to ask you for permission to take time off.”
“Not me who’s the issue but Maurizio. He’s been looking for you. He’s furious you took the girl away from her computer.”
We fell in step next to each other. “I’ll think of something.”
Santino stopped me in front of Maurizio’s closed office door. “I hope she’s worth it.”
I didn’t need to think about my answer. “She is.”
Shaking his head, he left me to deal with the boss myself. Not even he would voluntarily walk into an office that held a furious Maurizio.
I knocked and was told to enter. What I found was worse than I thought. Maurizio wasn’t only angry, but he also had company.
He spread out his arms, nearly dropping the woman sitting on his lap. “Since you decided to take a trip, we started the party without you.”
Bill, his biggest contractor—as he liked to call his gun and drug runners—was sitting on the couch off to the side, a woman dressed in only a thong giving him a lap dance. Two of his men were there as well, watching the show with hungry eyes.
Maurizio pointed to a chair off to the side. “Sit down.”
I knew this wasn’t the time to disobey him, no matter how much I wanted to leave. But hopefully they’d all be drunk and coked out in a few hours, and I could slip out. Maurizio was famous for his benders that lasted days.
They suited me just fine, because it meant I had more freedom to move around without being questioned. He also didn’t check the camera feeds very often, and I had time to erase whatever I didn’t want him to see. Might be a good time to sort out the mess I’d made when I didn’t show for the last job I was supposed to do for the CIA.
As soon as I took a seat, Maurizio slapped the ass of the woman doing coke on his desk. “Take care of him. He looks awfully tense.” He turned to me, his eyes glassy. “The little girl no longer doing it for you? After you went through all that trouble pulling her out of the ocean?”
I gritted my teeth to stop myself from taking his bait. He loved to goad me. “I have no complaints.”
The woman sat down on my lap, and I clenched my fists. Her perfume was overpowering, and her nose had white powder stuck to it. But pushing her off would mean stirring up Maurizio, and I needed him calm so I could get out of this.
I still had Everleigh’s strawberry and vanilla scent in my nose, the ghost of her light touch on my arm. I was in a constant state of arousal around her, and it didn’t take much to get me excited after being near her.
The woman rubbed her ass against my dick; the traitor came to life almost immediately.
I hated myself for my reaction but could do nothing about it.
