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The man and his orders, but fuck if I didn’t ride a burst of pleasure that soaked his hand and my panties. That soft, decadent chuckle erupted out of him again and he cupped one of my breasts, tweaking the nipple almost painfully through the fabric.
The scrape of his teeth and the vise of his fingers added an edge that burst that first bubble, but he was already stroking me back up higher. Bones was relentless, every twist of his fingers against my body wrenched more feeling from it. When I came again, I floated on a drunken, sensual haze.
“What favor were you going to do for me?” Elements of laughter punched up his voice even if he was whispering against my ear. I wanted to hold onto the moment, memorize it, but I was already drifting back under.
“Something,” I promised and his body vibrated where he wrapped around me. Laughter, I hoped, but his fingers started to move once more. “I can’t come again…”
“You can,” he said, that snap of command back in his voice. “You will.”
Bossy.
So bossy.
But I let go of everything, because he wouldn’t let me drown. He told me to come and my body damn well did as he said before I slipped beneath the pleasure-drenched tide entirely.
Chapter
Twenty-Five
GRACE
The sun wasn’t even a promise on the horizon when Bones woke me with a gentle hand to my cheek and a cup of coffee in his free hand. Despite releasing a groaning yawn, I wasn’t remotely upset by the wake-up call. I’d slept like the dead and my body still hummed from the multiple orgasms he’d pulled out of me.
I’d finished most of that first cup of coffee by the time I got dressed and braided my hair back. The unrelieved black made me seem a little too pale, and added hollows to my cheeks. This wasn’t for a shoot though, so I didn’t have to worry about reducing the glare or the shine. It helped that the collar hid the presence of the fresh hickey that Bones had left on my neck.
Tingles raced through me when my gaze lingered on it. Still, probably not the time to get turned on. I’d just tied my boots and studied the bulletproof vest he’d put on the table for me when Bones slipped back in.
“Put that on last,” he said, scooping it up. Like me, he was also dressed in all black. He looked like some dark angel come to life. “Breakfast is ready and we need to brief.” Downstairs, the kitchen doubled as a war room. The table had laptops open, maps spread, weapons lay spread out, where Voodoo was goingover each one. The scent of black coffee was so strong, I could take hits off of it.
Lunchbox handed me another big mug of coffee and a pocket pastry with eggs and sausage inside of it. It was like a hot pocket but home made. “Pay the toll,” he teased and I pushed up on my toes to meet his kiss.
Alphabet patted the chair next to him and I slid onto it and got another kiss from him as Voodoo grinned at me from across the table. Goblin let out a yawn from beneath the table and then set his head on one of my feet. It didn’t take him long to start snoring all over again.
I was with him on that. I didn’t even want to know what time it was, but since it was hardly my first early call, I didn’t complain. The only difference was I might be doing some of the shooting on this one and it had nothing to do with pictures.
Putting a pin in my own internal joke, I focused on Bones who took position front and center.
“We strike the compound from the east entrance.
Alpha team, made up of Lunchbox and Voodoo, hits the control room. Bravo team is Grace and me. We’ll move through the VIP hall, clear room by room. Alphabet runs overwatch and external feeds. Goblin stays with the vehicle.”
Surprise flared through me. I half-expected to be the one in the vehicle or in the vehicle with Alphabet. I studied the floor plan of Reznik’s estate. It looked like it had been designed for opulence but resorted to ugly. Squared off corners, a bad mix of architecture, what looked more like a Norman fortress than anything gothic, and overloaded with cameras just stripped it of any kind of soul.
“Entry’s quiet,” Bones continued. “We go in masked, we get out clean. No collateral. Priority is the drives in the vault. Secondary is confirmation of the buyer list. According to the decryption, he’s their security specialist.” Something cruelmoved through his smile. “He keeps all the records including their background checks and likely blackmail material.”
It was hard to work up any sympathy for people being blackmailed over their propensity tobuyother people. Boo. Hoo.
“If Reznik’s on-site,” Bones stated. “He’s mine.”
No one challenged that. Frankly, they all had the right to tear him apart.
“We extract in two teams as soon as we’re done. North stairwell for Alpha, west service for Bravo. Fourteen minutes, in and out.”
It sounded so clear, so straightforward. We’d get in, get it done, and get out. My pulse thudded a little too fast and heat seemed to burn beneath the chill as I stared at the floor plan.
“You good for this?”
I glanced up to find Bones assessing me. A flicker of the night before seemed to be present in his eyes, but it vanished before I could focus on it.