Walker (Bad Boys of X-Ops #1)

by Rie Warren

  I slammed the front door loud and clear, locked it, set an alarm. I stomped up the stairs, making sure they heard me, and entered the guest room where Jade and Madge were tethered together like two of the most unhappy prisoners I’d ever seen.

  Double bondage.

  Win.

  They didn’t seem to think so, although as per usual Jade was the most vocal.

  She didn’t even stop for a breath. The second I entered the bedroom, her verbal barrage railed on me hot and fast and filled with criticisms.

  The bottle of whisky was half empty, though.

  Kneeling down, I whistled, unlocking them from a pretty cushy imprisonment.

  I set Jade free last, quickly leaping back from what I knew was coming next. She rushed to her feet all fight and fury.

  I never underestimated Jade.

  My traitorous body bent toward her. Wanted more. Every damn mudslinging part of her.

  She was alive. And here. And so fucking fearless.

  Madge watched us with unveiled interest.

  Hair tousled, mouth firing off, anger in every single tensile muscle, Jade absolutely sprung at me, claws bared.

  Laughing freely, which only pissed her off more, I caught her in my arms, the only place I wanted her to be.

  She slapped my face and even that sting was potent and lusty.

  She ended her tirade with, “I WANT MY BLOODY WEAPONS BACK, WALKER!”

  Rubbing the side my burning cheek, I unwisely enjoyed the rush sparring with her always brought. “Maybe if you behave yourself tonight I’ll think about it.”

  “How long have you two known each other?” Madge asked, standing to the side.

  “Too fucking long,” Jade spat.

  I tuned out her bitching while I made sure their blood circulated to their wrists with the least pain possible.

  Jade screamed something like, “Sadist! Arsehole! I should put the world out of its misery and kill you now!”

  I chuckled. “Don’t know how you can complain about this plush lock-up.” Catching her bare feet against my thighs, I massaged the turn of her ankles, the skin of her soles, down to her toes. “Short duration. Carpeted room. No danger, practically a spa vacation, and you should be damn grateful.”

  Smiling widely, I bent over her feet.

  She kicked at me, but I didn’t care.

  This kind of fighting was going to end differently. I knew it. And it made my skin hot as a flashpoint wherever I touched her.

  My hands roamed up her calves to her knees, and she locked her legs together.

  I sat back, punching my fists to my thighs. “You done with the invectives yet?”

  “I’m surprised you even know the meaning of that word, you bastard.”

  I eyed the bottle of fifty-year-old whisky then glanced back at her. “Enjoyed the drink?”

  “Rotgut.”

  I laughed from my stomach, helping Madge to her feet. “Who wants a shower?”

  Both their hands shot to the air, but Jade made sure to tack on a few more insults . . . in foreign languages she knew full well I understood.

  “Guest bathroom is”—I guided Madge into the hall, opening one door after another until I came up trumps—“here. I’m sure there are towels and shampoo, soap and shit somewhere in here. After that, hit the sack. No telling what fresh hell tomorrow will bring. Turns out you’re a very popular woman, Madge.”

  She stopped me before I took my leave of the tiny bathroom. “You’re going to set the alarm?”

  “Oh yeah. Sure thing. Already did.”

  “You’ll be on guard tonight?” she asked.

  “Of course. Gonna walk the perimeter of this middle class, Middle American neighborhood all night long. Absolutely.”

  Not.

  Majedah drew herself up. “You have no intentions of doing so?”

  “Listen, lady. We’re in exactly Nowhere, United States. No one’s going to find us tonight.” I glanced at Jade who silently simmered in the hallway. A smile curved my lips. “Of course, you could always sleep with us. Nothing says welcome to the States like a hot, raunchy threesome.”

  Madge shoved me out and slammed the door.

  Jade grabbed my arm. “Sleep with us?”

  “This is how I see it. Madge ain’t going nowhere without you. And you? You’re not going anywhere with me glued to your back. So do you want to shower first, or should I join you?”

  “Bugger that! You’re a fuck. I’d rather sleep with cockroaches.” She slammed the door of the master bathroom in my face just like Madge had.

  Huh. Maybe I’d paired up with one too many females. International wars? Forget that. I was in danger of Estrogen Wars.

  I listened at the door in case Jade got any funny ideas about trying to slip out the small, square bathroom window I’d bolted shut earlier. I heard her quietly investigating and then volubly swearing when she discovered the fresh screws drilling the window tightly closed.

  Not that Jade could’ve made it through the little aperture anyway. Sure, she was fit as fuck, ready for a mattress workout, but she wasn’t what I’d call dainty.

  Flexible, maybe.

  In fact, if she were capable of contorting her body I’d probably be on board with defiling her upside down, inside out, and backward.

  “I hate him. Hate him. Hate him,” she muttered from behind the closed door.

  The shower powered on, and she railed some more. “Unbelievable ass—”

  I’d take that. I did have a pretty good ass.

  “—hole.”

  Huh.

  “Taking over the mission. Thinks I can’t just slit his throat.”

  I listened to her splishing and splashing. And hissing.

  “Locks me in a room . . . forcing me to . . .”

  I stepped back, shaking my head. The woman was unreal. She talked a blue streak even when she was alone. Not a good trait for someone in the espionage biz. But kind of endearing. Except for the I hate him, I hate him, I hate him part.

  Attempting to ignore the tempting idea of her one door away, standing under the shower spray with suds floating all over her wet naked body, I paced a circle in the bedroom. Probably made my own track marks on the carpet. My cock was rampant hard. My nerves on high alert. And I knew I’d get no stress relief in the form of a hot fuck tonight.

  Sex was the only part I liked about being on R&R. Of course, this wasn’t R&R. It was shaping up to be sheer torture. The bodily kind.

  Maybe I could rub one out in the shower after she was done, but the danger of loudly grunting Jade’s name as I imagined nailing her might put a damper on my cock calisthenics.

  Before I knew it, I had my ear pressed to the door again. No unusual sounds. No hot moans. No scream of my name as she creamed between her fingers.

  My dick reached new proportions of erectness. I could probably beat nails into wood with the thing.

  It jumped in my jeans when the doorknob turned, and I jerked back.

  Jade swanned out, wrapped in two white towels—one around her hair, the other slung tightly over her body, barely covering her from the crests of her tits to the tops of her thighs.

  I didn’t even bother pretending I wasn’t staring.

  Growling low in my throat when the clinging towel slipped a millimeter lower, I asked, “Do I need to drag your ass into the bathroom with me or will you behave?”

  She licked her lips, her gaze aimed way south of the border and landing on my groin where my blatant hard-on punched a thick ridge inside my jeans. “I . . . I’ll stay put.”

  Her eyes darted to the closed bedroom door and back.

  I squinted at her, taking one step forward.

  “Walker.” Her fist tightened on the towel at her breasts. “I promise.”

  Relenting, I turned on my heel. “Guess I trust you. Just this once.”

  I made quick work in the bathroom, hauling my shave kit from my pack and digging out the necessaries. I hated scruff on my face, and three days’ worth made me feel eve
n dirtier than the layer of scum clinging to my flesh.

  My jaw and face scraped clean, I did the tooth-brushing thing while I stood under pounding hot water. Fuck. It felt good, erasing the events of the past thirty-six hours from my body—the dust, the blood, the grit that got everywhere.

  The only thing that could make this better would be a sweet wet pussy to sink my dick into.

  The dick in question pumped up proudly from between my legs, fully engorged with blood and in no way ready to stand down. I sure as hell did not trust Jade enough to take the time to paint the tiled walls with jets of the white stuff from my cock, but the build-up in my balls was becoming unbearable.

  Not helping matters was the idea Jade had stood, bare-assed, slippery wet and hot, exactly where I was no more than ten minutes earlier.

  I wondered how big her nipples were, because I liked to bite and suck and pinch. I imagined she had a soft tight strip of black hair above her cunt, and that her clit—unhooded—would juice up beneath my tongue.

  Fuck.

  With a loud grunt, I unwrapped the hand I’d begun fisting up and down my cock without even realizing it.

  The dick-stick between my legs wagged like a goddamn flagpole, tall, thick, and dark brownish-pink. The head gleamed, swollen and leaking.

  Punching the wall, I hung my face under the water, letting it stream down my back. After a final glare at my stiffie, I cut off the water and stepped out. I wiped down, ran the towel over my hair then finger combed it. Slinging the damp towel around my hips, I stepped out of the steamy bathroom.

  Jade half-reclined against the headboard, the covers draped up over her tits.

  She watched me approach, shifting her legs beneath the blankets.

  “I sleep naked.” Her green eyes curved at the corners. “Hope you don’t mind.

  I suppressed the urge to rub my hands together. “Me too.”

  Chapter Nine

  Beneath the Sheets

  DROPPING MY TOWEL IN the middle of the floor, I prowled forward.

  My muscles dripped with diamond drops of water that trailed down my pecs to my abs to my hard cock.

  Jade’s eyes turned deep, dark, almost black-glassy-green. She followed every step I took, her gaze locked on my advancing form. The wet slap of my long black hair down my back mirrored hers, which fanned out across the pillows, drying in long luscious waves highlighted with the vibrant, rich red.

  Her breaths fell faster. Mine heated up. There was a heartbeat throbbing in my cock, and my balls swelled bigger with each brush of her eyes up and down my body.

  Dragging her gaze back up my body, she whispered, “That’s a magnificent tattoo.”

  I rubbed my hand across the ink that spread across my upper chest to my shoulders. Her gaze followed the motion, and the bed dipped when I placed a knee on it. The tribal markings were outlined in black, but the feathers had been colored in azure blues and royal reds.

  “A Thunderbird,” I explained in a voice that was as deeply thunderous as the mythical bird’s flapping wings.

  She gulped.

  I smiled, pretty sure it was a feral flash of my teeth. “My spirit animal. The courage of a warrior. The strength of a fighter. Honor.” I slid beneath the covers. “Power.” My voice deepened even more. “Dominance.”

  Jade squeaked, I would’ve sworn it.

  “What tribe do you belong to?” Her words shook.

  She stared at me, riveted, rooted to the spot on the other side of the mattress I was slowly encroaching.

  “Lakota. Our name for the Thunderbird is Wakį́nyąn. Sacred winged. Like the eagles that fly over our reservation.” For the first time in a long time, I felt a flush of pride at belonging to my great nation instead of the grief I never buried deeply enough.

  Jade hesitantly reached out, and when her hand rested on the taut skin of my chest, a breath exploded from me.

  Her hand fell to her hip, and her eyes blinked up at me, her curiosity unconcealed. I flipped her in my arms, coiling my body around hers. The damp heat of our skin combining and igniting. Stretching over her, I turned off the light, leaving us blanketed in darkness cut only by our ragged breaths.

  “I should check in on Majedah.” Jade struggled ineffectually.

  I crushed her against my chest, my arms winding around her. “You’re going nowhere.”

  “This is getting a little too cozy for my liking, Walker.”

  “You’re the one who said you sleep nekkie.”

  “I didn’t think you meant you’d be glued to my back literally.”

  My dick curved between the sweet hot hills of her ass, sending jolts of fire through my system. I repositioned my arms around her, crossing one over her waist and the other over the swell of her tits.

  “Walker. What are you doing?” She wiggled, seating my dick even deeper in her cleft.

  “It’s either this or the handcuffs again.” Fucking fantastic idea in a situation like this. Jade bound for my pleasure. “Can’t have you sneaking out on me with our prisoner.”

  “If I promise to stay put, will you let me go?”

  “Not a chance.” Moving one hand, I palmed a lush heavy mound and pinged the peak of her nipple. “You feel too fucking good.”

  “Mmm. Walker . . .” Arching her neck, she bit her lip and grinded against me, setting off ten thousand bolts of destructive desire.

  I squeezed her breasts, the wonderful weights more than filling my hands. “Goodnight kiss?”

  Turning her face, she threaded her fingers through my hair. “This is a really bad idea.”

  “The worst.” I pulled her around, seating my cock between the hot lush swell of her slit.

  “Because I don’t even like you.” Her breath pulsed against the corner of my mouth.

  “Pretty sure I hate you.” Dipping my head, I slanted my lips to hers.

  Our lips met. Softly. Slowly. Tasting. Touching.

  The second Jade hoarsely panted my name, I lunged deep with my tongue. I cradled her head in my hands and crushed my mouth to hers. Dipping inside, I pulled her tongue into my mouth, and she took charge, pushing me to my back. Full breasts against my chest. The wet glide of her tongue echoing the drenched heat of her cunt sawing up and down the length of my cock.

  She broke away with a whine. I snaked up to lick at the small silver stud above her lip.

  Whipping back her hair, she rose above me. “I’m going to kill you, you know?”

  “Dying for you would be worth it.”

  ****

  I blinked awake, immediately reaching for my KA-BAR and coming into contact with soft feminine flesh instead.

  What in the fuck?

  The dizzies and confusion came fast—a hazard of the job, one that didn’t really mix with the hazards of The Job.

  Beirut. The bomb. The boat . . .

  Jade.

  JB’s house.

  I worked quickly forward until all the messed up, fractured puzzle pieces made some semblance of sense.

  Jade.

  The kiss.

  And her cunt so close to my cock.

  Morning wood was more like redwood. I gently flittered my fingertips up over the swell of her hip, down the indent of her waist, and around one dusky plum-colored nipple.

  She was soft and sleepy and luscious, hugging against me. And I was hard. Hard as hell.

  Her nipple peaked beneath my thumb moments before her cat-like eyes blinked open. Her moist lips stretched into a lazy smile as her eyelashes fluttered up and down.

  “Fuck, Jade. Your eyes.”

  “What?” She arched slowly up to her elbows half on top of me, and her tits—warm and round—hung down, caressing my chest.

  Beating my head back as her incredible heat stole through me, I threw my forearm across my face. “Nothing. Forget it.”

  She tugged my arm away, sensuously rubbing her breasts against me. “Come on. Don’t be shy. What about my eyes?”

  “They’re . . .” I squinted at her, considering. “Scary. E
erie. Kind of demonic.”

  “Walker!” She slammed her hand over my mouth.

  “Sexy,” I mumbled. “Definitely haunting.”

  “You’re terrible. You’re not even a very good spy. And I can’t believe I let you talk me into bed with you.”

  I flipped her onto her back, using my weight and naked heat to press her down. “Woman. You were practically begging me to bed you last night.”

  “Once again you have the wrong end of the stick.” She squirmed beneath me, and I didn’t mind that at all.

  Her sexy body hit me in all the right places, her legs parting so my thick cock wedged against her more than wet heat.

  Leaning down, I kissed her raw. Kissed her rough. Took her moans and her tongue and her hungry little licks.

  Her arms wound around my neck, her legs over my hips, and she slid her cunt up and down the underside of my cock.

  I pulled back with a grunt. “I’m more than ready to give you the right end of the stick.”

  Jade wrestled me off her, rolling me over and leaping from the bed to land—absolutely completely naked—on the floor. Her eyes sparkled, and her grin grew as she stood, staring down at me.

  I laughed uproariously. Without doubt, she was a worthy opponent in every sense of the word. Sex. War. Intellect. Espionage.

  “Think that’s funny, do you?” She slammed me in the face with a pillow until the seams burst and feathers floated all around us.

  I hooked an arm around her waist, tumbling her down to me.

  “Oh, bugger. Allergies!” Her eyes watered, and she sneezed five times in succession.

  “I don’t even know how you can function as an operative, lady.”

  She came up, completely clear-eyed, with my previously hidden KA-BAR in hand. “Gotcha!”

  All kidding aside, I rose to my feet. “Give me the blade, Jade.”

  She didn’t. Instead she stepped closer, doing something dangerously sexy.

  Jade drew the sharp, sharp blade up the flexed muscles of my inner thigh, testing the cool edge against the tendon at the top, really goddamn close to my ballsack.

  Heat erupted throughout my body, and—unbelievably—my cock pulsed with obscene need.