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“Only a million times. Don’t worry.” I stride past her, my steps growing quicker as I approach one of my rear doors.
“I’ll be close if you need me,” Cass calls at my back.
“Don’t worry.”
“All I do is worry,” she grumbles, but she doesn’t follow me as I walk out the back door and stride toward my research building. It’s along the side wall of my estate, quite close to where Ocean just made her entrance. Her friends may have disabled my cameras, but I have a backup set–ones that aren’t connected to my usual network. I snagged some old-school closed-circuit units from eBay a while back just for this purpose.
Pulling up my phone, I access the hidden network, then enter the feed. The visuals aren’t particularly clear, but I see movement, and I know it’s her. She’s floating off the ground, easing along the cinderblock wall of my lab, her hand held out as she skates past.
“That looks like fun.” I smile and pocket my phone, then pick up my pace and dash into the front of my building, the door automatically locking behind me.
The hangar is ahead to my right, the drone sitting in its berth, fully visible at present. She’s not here for the drone proper. She’s here for the data unit inside it.
I keep to the shadows, moving around my front office area and into the hangar, making sure I’m out of sight of my cameras. They may be dark for me, but I’m certain Ocean’s friends are keeping an eye on them.
It’s hard to stay still, but I have to. Even though every single cell in my body is vibrating at some unknown, insane frequency, I remain silent and stationary. I can’t spring my trap until she’s within my grasp.
Just the thought of holding her makes my blood heat, and I wonder if waiting like this might push me off the cliff into madness. To have her so close, to be so near my ultimate goal. It’s like fire in my veins.
When I see a shadow move around to the left of the drone, my heart kicks up its pace. It’s a wonder she can’t hear it beating.
“Well, hello, beautiful,” she purrs to the machinery.
Her voice is sultry, so fucking sexy. My mouth goes dry, and my need for her seems to rise inside me like some dark beast. Then again, who am I kidding? Iama beast. I lured her here with the sole goal of keeping her, of making her mine.
“Let me help you into something more comfortable.” She’s beneath the body of the craft, her fingers skating along the metal until she reaches the removable panel. It comes off easily, and she places it on the floor.
I get a better glimpse of her, of her curves–no amount of camouflage could hide them from me. I could swear I catch her scent, something warm and almost sweet. Like a hint of warm honey.
I move closer, unable to stop myself from being drawn to her. She’s focused on the drone, and she clicks on a flashlight and holds it between her lips as she unscrews the control unit from the drone’s guts.
She doesn’t see me as I creep closer.
I’m right behind her when she straightens, the control unit in her hand.
Then she turns around.
“Ocean, I’ve been–”
A cry catches in her throat, and she moves so quickly all I see is a blur before blinding pain lights up my nose.
She fucking punched me! I don’t know why I didn’t plan for this. I suppose I thought it would go a little less violently.
“Ocean!” I reach for her, but she darts to the left and yanks something from the air. It’s the board she’s been working on. It’s camouflaged even better than she is.
She jumps onto it and turns it toward the hangar door.
I make a split-second decision. With a jump, I lunge for her and tackle her from the board. She screams as I turn and cradle her in my arms, cushioning her with my body as we hit the concrete floor.
It knocks the breath out of me, and she fights like a cat, screaming and writhing in my arms. I roll her over, pinning her to the floor. She’s warm beneath me, her body made for mine.
“Let go! Get off me!”
But I don’t let her go. Even though I taste blood from my busted nose and one of my ribs might be broken–I’mneverletting her go.
5
OCEAN
