by Diana Downey
“Another feast for my eyes,” he says, teething my matching black cheeksters. I shaved down to a small neat patch of hair and even moisturize it until it was buttery soft. He nips my mound through the panties.
“Oh God.”
He slowly takes them off, and my sex involuntarily clenches and pulses, expectant for his mouth. He sniffs my cunt before licking the nub, sending sweet shivers all the way to my needlepoint nipples. I’m so glad I took extra time to freshen myself up prior to riding in his truck. I want this to be perfect. I want him to never forget me too.
“You taste like honey, like the innocent sweet girl you are.” He kisses and tongues along the slit, driving me to clutch the headboard. It feels so damn good.
“Aedan,” I groan.
“My Willa.” His tongue dips inside me. His hands reach for my breasts while he sucks and licks my pussy. Nothing has ever felt this good.
His finger pushes inside, and his tongue lazily circles my clit. The tender nerves feel like they’re going to explode.
I feel myself rise and the sensation prickling my skin. He keeps tonguing and eating me until I cry out. “Oh Aedan.” My hips arch toward his hungry mouth while an orgasm rips through me.
“I think I love you,” I blurt out. Oh God, I can’t believe I said those three frightening words that could send him running to the hills.
He chuckles. “If I get that kind of response for loving your pussy, I can’t wait for you to feel all of me.”
Aedan slips out of his jeans, and his cock bulges against his shorts. I’m going to see him naked. He shrugs off the shorts, and I stare. His hard dick’s glorious, and I can’t wait to feel it inside me. The veins swell on the rigid length, the head purple from the gorging blood pumping into his cock.
At the sight of him, my sex quivers with anticipation.
He tears open a condom and rolls it on. Good thing because I’m not on the pill. He gently nudges his cock at my entrance.
My chin tips up. My body is dying for him. His hand reaches for my exposed throat, reaching behind to grab the nape of my neck. He presses his mouth to my lips.
“You’re so beautiful, Willa. You make me want to lose myself within you.”
Aedan gently presses the crown into me. It feels incredible. He slowly fills me, the length reaching beyond me. I’ve never felt anything so perfect.
When he’s fully inside, I feel a slight pinch and wince, warm liquid pooling around the head and pushing down.
“It’s okay,” he says. “It’s just your hymen. You alright?”
I nod. “Please don’t stop.”
“I won’t. I think we’re past that.”
His stiff cock slowly pulls in and out of me. It’s like a slow dance teasing me, and the sensation is exquisite. I feel myself building and ramping up again.
Smiling, he watches me. I squeeze my eyes shut to experience the intense pleasure spawning deep inside me. The steel length stretches and expands my sex.
“Yer’re so tight I may come quickly.” He slows.
Each thrust is gradual and precise. My sex hugs him and throbs around him.
My heart rate spikes as he draws his length in and out of me. It feels so good. “Please. Faster.”
Aedan increases his tempo. “Yer pussy is too sweet.”
He leans down and kisses me roughly, his teeth tugging on my lips. His hands pull my arms above my head, my breasts prickle with excitement, and my lips press against his hungry mouth. He hits the roof of my sex, and I cry out. “Keep going.”
“I love how you beg me.” His tongue laps down my neck.
I can feel my imminent release. I’m right on the edge, and he must sense that because he hammers me with insistent plunges. His mouth covers mine, and his tongue slips between my teeth while his hips undulate into me. Shivers ripple through me as my orgasm takes me under. He keeps going, and I keep coming.
“Oh Aedan, I love you.” I know I shouldn’t say those words that’ll scare him off, but I’ve never felt anything so wondrous.
I don’t know how long my sex ripples around him, but I feel myself shattering, bursting apart and then dissolving into his bed.
Sweat breaks out on his chest, glistening in the soft light. I feel him jerk deep inside, releasing his orgasm. It feels so good.
He finally slows until he drops beside me. “You. That was the best. I could fall in love with yer, with the way you feel and with the way yer make me feel.”
His arms wrap around me, and after he throws the condom in the trash, he pulls up the sheet to cover us. I’ve never loved a man before, but I know he’s it for me. I hope he thinks that way about me.
I slowly drift off in the warmth of his embrace.
My phone buzzes, and it’s Cyn. I groggily say hello.
“Do you have your gun with you?” she asks, sounding out of breath.
Terror seizes my throat. I shoot upright, startling Aedan. “Yes. Why?”
Chapter Cyn
Shane enters Red Sky with his gun drawn. His whole body coiled like a spring. My hand grasps my gun sitting at the bottom of my purse.
He slowly and carefully unlocks the door. His neck muscles tense and the veins throb. Shane is all lean, hard muscles.
“I thought someone tripped the alarm,” I say, my nerves jittery.
“Someone must’ve shut it off from inside, but if he knows how to turn it off, he could’ve done it before the police and my app were notified. He has fifteen seconds.”
“But that means he had a key,” I say, swallowing hard. It makes sense that it was an inside job, but I don’t like that it’s someone Shane trusts. I like all the employees I’ve met minus Sonia.
“Maybe you should stay out here,” Shane says.
“That’s how the pretty virginal blonde gets axed. I’m not blonde, so I’ll take my chances inside.”
He chuckles. “Or a virgin.”
“Smartass.” I clutch onto his arm, more to feel his muscles flex than for protection. My other hand has drawn the gun out. I switched off the safety on my 9mm semi-automatic gun.
“I love you, princess.” He creeps into the lobby, and we go through the main offices and then the cubicle farm. So far, not a hair is out of place.
We then go to the server room where the AC is cranked. When he opens the door, I let out a scream partially caught in my throat. Jeremy dangles on a rope by his throat. His tongue lolls out of his mouth, and his face is a dull gray-blue. It’s sickening to look at, so I jerk my head away.
“We need to get him down,” I cry. Poor sweet Jeremy.
“No. He’s dead and the cops and Timmons will be here soon. We don’t want to destroy any evidence.”
“Why would he kill himself?”
“I don’t think he would. Someone tied that rope to the support beams above the drop ceiling. This looks premeditated.”
Shane sits down at a terminal and types on the keyboard.
“What are you doing?” I ask.
“Checking the video tapes. Shit. Someone erased the last five hours.”
That’s obvious why, except the length of time. Why would the person need that much time? “Who do you think murdered him?”
“Definitely one of my employees or someone who was let into the office by an employee.” He rubs that handsome scruff lining his strong jaw. “Whoever came into the office probably wasn’t expecting Jeremy. That’s probably why he didn’t get the alarm shut off in time.”
A low scraping sound comes from the cabinet to my left, startling me.
“Did you hear that?” I ask, icy shivers working into my spine. “How come when I’m with you my life turns upside down?”
“You wouldn’t want to be bored, would you?”
“Boring would be nice, sitting on a bank fishing, kids running around and screaming.”
Without lowering his gun, he tugs me into him. “You’re making my dick hard, princess.”
He’s so inappropriate. I love it. “What do you think is making that
noise?”
“Don’t know, but we’ll soon find out.” Shane skulks over to one of the low cabinets where the electrical cables and switch boxes are hidden.
He slowly opens the cabinet, his gun cocked and ready. When he opens it, a blood-curdling scream comes from the inside.
We both jump back. Sonia is curled up inside, tears streaking her once perfect makeup. Her hands cover her face. If she’s the insider, she’ll be fired. Score.
“Don’t hurt me,” she cries.
“What the fuck are you doing in here?” Shane barks out.
“I thought…” She looks at me and scowls, and I consider slugging her. She crawls out of the cabinet.
“Oh God.” Seeing Jeremy, she bursts into tears and throws her arms around Shane, despite the fact he’s holding a gun.
“No,” she cries. “Not Jeremy.”
Shane pushes her off and gives her a good shake. I’d like to throttle her. “Why were you in here?” he demands.
“I know you come in the server room before you leave, but then Jeremy came into the room, so I hid.”
“What happened?” Shane asks. Smacking her sounds like a better plan.
“Jeremy came in and then he worked until late. I was getting all cramped and thought I should just expose myself,” she whines. “I didn’t know what to do and then Tang came in to see what Jeremy was working on. Jeremy said he found something on an opened port, and that the IP addresses were somewhere. Tang hit him over the head with something and then he strung him up. Several other Asian men came into the room a half hour later.”
They must’ve tripped the alarm.
“Did you see them?” I ask, pissed that she’s stalking my man.
Now, her arms snake around Shane’s neck. “I’m so scared. I knew you’d come.”
Shane removes her arms. “Did you see them?”
“No. I kept the door closed when they entered. I thought they would kill me too. I’ve been stuck in here since then. I thought you’d never come.”
Oh brother. We should leave her in the cabinets permanently.
Shane closes his eyes. “Are you sure it was Tang?”
Sonia sobs. “Yes. I can’t believe he killed Jeremy.”
He trusted Tang. He worked for him at his last company, which gives him perfect access. Tang must be working for the Chinese. He is here on a visa.
“I should go home,” Sonia says, smiling coyly, “unless you want me to stay.”
“The cops will want to talk to you,” Shane says.
There’s a hard rap at the front door.
Shane gives her a wary look. “I’ll be back in a minute, Cyn. Keep an eye on her.”
“I don’t need to be watched,” Sonia complains. “I should come with you.”
I fold my arms across my chest. “Yes, you need to be babysat.”
The cops and Agent Timmons roll into the server room. A police officer immediately takes Sonia away from the scene, and the crime lab goes right to work.
“We may need to confiscate your servers,” Agent Timmons says.
“Oh hell no,” Shane says. “You’re not putting me out of business. I need the money.”
Timmons stands rigidly. “It’s a crime scene now.”
Shane gets right in his face. “It was before. We have daily backups. You can troll through them. One of my employees is involved.”
“Who?” Timmons asks.
“Tang. He’s my best programmer.”
That sucks. I know Shane liked him.
“How do you know it wasn’t Sonia that killed Jeremy?” Timmons asks.
I laugh. “She overtook Jeremy and then lifted his body to hang him? By the way, my lawyer made a deal, so the drive should be turned over on Monday.”
“Chang Wong owns the studio that’s filming Cyn’s family,” Shane adds. “He told the director to let Willa work with the clowns, and she was almost killed. You have to know that.” Irritation flicks in Shane’s forest green eyes.
Timmons scratches his chin, like he’s thinking. He looks like he’s holding something back, which he’s been doing all along.
“What aren’t you telling us?” I ask. “You need to tell us. A bull gored Shane and almost killed my little sister.”
Timmons finally looks us in the eyes. “We’ve been looking into his shell corporations being used to launder money. The DEA has been keeping tabs on them for drug trafficking.”
Great. He’s known all along. Dickhead. He’s going to get us killed.
“We should go home and get some sleep before tomorrow,” I say. “I have to finish the books and we should figure out what Jeremy found.”
Shane slings his arm around my shoulders. He could swallow me in his embrace, and I couldn’t ask for a better man. Now I have to figure out how to marry him, make him happy, and be there for Willa.
“If the police take my servers, I need to rebuild them and get them online,” Shane says.
I can’t do that for him. “Call some of your employees and we’ll work on it in the morning.”
“I don’t want you out of my sight until this is over,” Shane says, shadowing me and guiding me to the elevator.
“I understand, but what do I do about Willa? She has to go to school.”
As we drive out of the parking garage, an Escalade sits across the street. Shane calls the fed, but it’ll be gone by the time Timmons gets down to this level. It drives away as we do, following us, so I clutch onto my gun and sit closer to Shane, hoping they aren’t trailing Willa too.
Chapter Shane
Aedan is taking Willa to the library while Cyn and I go into the office. Willa needs to study, and Aedan is researching the documentary he wants to film. I want to search through the files to see what Jeremy found and was killed for. Damn. He shouldn’t have had to die. He felt guilty over the security breach, so he was putting in overtime to resolve the issues.
When we get into the office, I lock the doors behind me since it’s Sunday. Cyn works on her laptop on the extra desk in my office. I don’t want her far from me. I can’t fucking lose her.
The feds only cordoned off the server room, so I rebuild the servers in a spare office and crank the AC in the room for the short term. I called in Sri and one other lead to help me. They weren’t happy about it. Once I get them started, I leave them to it.
I’ll switch all the network traffic at noon to the rebuilt servers, so the feds can scour the servers.
In my office, I run through the files and find what I think Jeremy stumbled upon. “Hey.”
“What’s up?” she asks.
I turn her chin, so I can kiss her. “Besides you distracting me?”
My princess smiles seductively. Sex has gotten us over a lot of rough patches. “That’s my job.” She leans on me to see my monitor, and I smell the spicy fragrance of the only woman I want to be with.
“Jeremy tracked the opened port data loss. It goes to Zhejiang province where Wong’s factories are.” I send it to Timmons for him to track down the exact address. “We’ll see what the feds come up with.”
I kiss my princess roughly on the lips, slipping my tongue into her mouth. “Want to fuck on the desk?”
She pushes my papers and keyboard out of the way. “What do you think?”
“Are you going to marry me? I may have to put a condition on servicing you.”
Sadness flashes in those beautiful dark eyes. “I love you. We’re going to have to figure out how to keep Willa in school and be together.”
I can’t stop loving or fucking her. “I guess that’s good enough. For now.”
My lips find hers, and the temperature in the room rises. My cock stirs in my jeans. When it comes to my princess, it has a mind of its own.
My cell rings, and I pull it from my pocket to toss it on the desk. I only want to concentrate on her. The call can wait.
Cyn cocks her head to see my phone. “Shane? Why is Lindsey calling you? Is she still at your condo?”
Fuck. My hand was hal
fway up her shirt—her soft, tender breast within reach. My heart rate has already spiked, and my cock has steeled for her. “Yeah. I meant to call her mom, so I could move them back out.”
“Maybe you should get that.”
“Lindsey.” I answer the phone. Why the hell would she call me? Maybe something broke at my condo. “What’s up?”
“Someone took Remy?”
What the fuck? I jerk upright from the desk, holding Cyn, so she doesn’t fall. Why would anyone take her little boy? “Did you call the police?”
She’s sobbing into the phone. “No, the note said if I did, they’d kill him. What am I going to do, Shane? They said if you turn over some drive, they wouldn’t kill him. Do you know what they’re talking about?”
The Chinese want Cyn’s information. They have to know she made copies, and they’re scattered all over.
I promise to be there shortly and to meet with the kidnappers. My heart breaks at the thought of Remy being kidnapped and hurt. He’s alone and afraid, so I have to help him. Despite all our issues, I feel for Lindsey. If someone took my child, I’d kill him.
“You can’t go without me,” Cyn argues.
I couldn’t bear to see her die, and we had this conversation in Alaska. “No. I’ll call Timmons, but I’m going. I can’t wait.”
Her head lies on my shoulder. “No. It’s not worth it. They’re setting you up to kill you.” Her tears soak my shirt.
“I stole back 150 mil from them. They’re pissed, but they won’t kill me until they get it back. Juarez said the Chinese were hurting.”
Her hands ball up my shirt. “I can’t let you go alone.”
“Don’t make this any harder, princess. Make sure Timmons is going to my condo. The feds can pick up the trail.”
“That man couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag.”
She pouts or maybe she’s scheming all the way to her house. I drop Cyn off at her home, and I drive away, thinking this may be the last time I see her.
I head to my condo to talk to Lindsey. The kidnappers left a note for her that states where to meet them. I don’t unload my gun and leave a backup in my truck.
I go into my condo through the garage and walk up the stairs. Using the key, I enter. Lindsey is sitting on my leather couch, sobbing.