Page 19 of Justified Lies (TFH Team Bravo #3)

“No. People talk. Dillon Security has too many connections with TFH. I know you have a reputation.”

His mouth curved. “I cultivated that. I never wanted them to know that I was still hung up on a blue-eyed spy who wrecked my world.”

Her face crumpled.

Panic hit his system. “What?”

“I ruined everything. I couldn’t tell you right off, but I wanted to. For the first time in my life, I wanted to share my entire life with someone.”

He pulled her closer, wrapping his arms around her. “I would like that.”

She pulled back and looked up at him. She was not a pretty crier. Her skin was so fair that it turned her face all blotchy.

“Kap,” she whispered his name, and it was his undoing.

He bent his head to take her mouth, and she met him halfway.

She slipped her arms up his shoulders, pressing her soft body against him, and he gave in to his needs.

His cock hardened, his entire body vibrating with the need he had for this one woman.

This one little waif, whom he knew could probably kill a person with her hands. Why did that turn him on even more?

He pushed that thought aside as he slipped his hands down her body to her ass. He lifted her against him, and she wrapped her legs around his waist. Even through their clothes, he could feel her heat. The memory of having all that wet warmth surrounding his dick almost had him coming in his pants.

He set her down on the bed, breaking the kiss so he could tear off his shirt. Her hands were on his buckle, undoing his pants.

“Eden.”

She smiled up at him, her eyes dancing with happiness.

And in that one moment, he would deny her nothing.

He wanted to make her smile like that for the rest of their lives.

That thought should scare him, but instead, it gave him peace.

They had a lot to work out, but he knew that he wanted to be by her side.

Pushing that thought away, he focused on what she was doing.

She had his pants undone and was slipping her hand in to pull out his cock.

Slipping her hand down the shaft, she pumped him once, twice…

a small pearl of precum wet the head. Eden licked her lips, then leaned forward to take him into her mouth.

He curled his toes into the rug as she licked him from balls to tip, then took him into her mouth completely.

Her hand slipped down to his ball sac, teasing him.

Over and over, she took him, and it took his entire concentration not to come. He looked down at her bent head, and just the sight of his dick disappearing into her mouth had him growling.

“Enough,” he said as he pulled her back. She pouted up at him, and Jesus, that almost had him coming. What the fuck? This woman was undoing him with just a pout. It was just like before, but somehow better.

“I like being in charge.”

He chuckled. “I know you do, and I’m cool with that, but I want both of us naked and enjoying it.”

“But I do enjoy tasting you,” she said, smacking her lips together. God, this woman.

“Naked or no more tasting.”

“Fine.”

They both pulled off their clothes in record time. He lay down on the bed.

“Come on, babe,” he said, urging her to straddle him. “Now scoot on up here for me.”

“I thought you said I was going to be in charge?”

“You will be, but before you ride me, I want to make sure that you are ready for my cock.”

She shivered, causing that wet pussy to glide over his dick. He ground his teeth together. When she positioned herself over his mouth, he slipped his hands to her ass once again and feasted.

The taste of her had always been amazing. Hot and spicy, with just enough sweetness to make it addictive. Eden had always been responsive to him, as if one touch from him turned her on.

“Yes, fuck, Kap. God.”

Her moans weren’t exactly quiet, and he didn’t care. He couldn’t give a fuck what was going on outside of that room. All he cared about was this woman and bringing her pleasure. Her juices were wetting his face, and he knew she was close. Instead of pushing her to that pinnacle, he released her.

Eden looked down at him, her breasts rising and falling with each deep breath. She had never been that big, but those breasts…he loved them. The pink nipples, the way he could palm them, and they were so fucking responsive.

“Your turn to take charge,” he said, his voice deeper than before, his arousal easy to hear.

Her blue eyes were so dark, but need flared. She scooted down his body so that she was straddling his hips. Taking his cock into her hands, she stroked him once, then positioned her core directly over the tip.

Inch by inch, she descended on him. She definitely took her time, biting her lip as she tortured him.

By the time he was fully seated inside of her, he was ready to come.

There was no way on earth he was going to climax without her.

He wanted her with him, so he held back, his fingers clawing at the bedsheets before he slipped them up to her breasts.

Plucking at her nipples, he enjoyed the way her pussy spasmed around his dick. She had always loved to have him tease her breasts.

“I want a taste, babe.”

He wasn’t above begging, but she took pity on him. Leaning forward, she braced her hands on the pillows as he rose to take one nipple into his mouth. His fingers continued to pinch the other, and Eden never stopped moving. Over and over, with a few twists of her hips, she rode the fuck out of him.

Soon, he knew he couldn’t hold back anymore.

“Are you close?” she asked, rising up away from him again. Her rhythm seemed to double. Her hair was a mass of shiny curls and a mess from his hands. Her entire body was flushed with arousal, and she was riding him with wild abandon.

There had never been a more beautiful woman. Not for him.

“So fucking close. You always know how to ride my dick.”

She moaned at his dirty words, and he could tell she was close too. So, he slipped his hands down her body to tease her clit. One press and she slammed down on him, her entire body shaking with her release.

“Kap,” she moaned. Fuck. So beautiful.

He took hold of her hips and thrust up into her twice. His orgasm exploded from him, his entire body going rigid as he lost himself to pleasure.

After a speedy shower that resulted in another quick and fast bout of lovemaking, they collapsed in bed. Eden knew she shouldn’t feel so happy. In fact, everything that was going on should scare the hell out of her, but in the moment, she wanted to savor this man.

They were lying in bed, wrapped around each other, her head on his chest.

“You said you were going to tell me the weekend you disappeared?”

“We call it the lost weekend.”

He was trailing his fingers up and down her arm.

The easy affection in that move made her want to dance with happiness.

They still had a lot to deal with. Someone wanted her dead, and possibly her brother, for some unknown reason.

Kap had run at the first sign of a problem, but she felt that now they might be able to talk it out.

Not right at this moment. First, the bastard killing agents needed to be brought down. Then maybe…

“So, you were going to tell me?”

She lifted up off his chest, resting her weight on her elbows. “Yes. I had to get it approved.”

“Approved?”

A sigh escaped before she could stop it. She would rather snuggle in bed and not ever leave. Still, she knew they had to deal with this situation.

“Even though we were not top-notch agents, we still had to get approval as to who was told about our involvement.”

“What do you mean, not top-notch?”

“We weren’t considered real agents. We were more assets, although we trained as agents.”

His gaze narrowed. “Why?”

“Why were we trained?”

He nodded.

“Well, Mom was an agent before she met Dad. She said that if we were going to continue helping the US government, they would train us to protect ourselves.”

“So, you had to tell someone? Get approval to tell me?”

She nodded, unsure where he was going with this line of questioning, but she was starting to see that he was putting some kind of puzzle together.

“Who knew?”

She blinked. “Well, El.”

“Okay, I get that your brother knew.”

“And my parents knew about you.”

“You told your parents about me?”

“Yes.”

He digested that. “But workwise, who knew? You said you needed to get it approved, so who did you tell?”

“Oh. Well, Uncle Marv, who would have sent it up the ladder for approval. You had an extensive record with NCIS and top security clearance. So it only took a week to get approval. How did you find out? That I was with the CIA?”

“Word came through another agent.”

“CIA?”

He shook his head. “Amy.”

She bit her lip as she started putting the pieces together herself. “Someone knew about the two of us, and the fact that Amy was hot for you.”

“She wasn’t—”

“Kapone, she practically jumped you when we broke up. They used her.”

“Yeah.”

“And don’t feel guilty. She put my entire world in jeopardy by leaking the information. She knew that my family could become targets the moment she let it out who we were. She didn’t care.”

“Yeah, well, either way, we can’t ask her who told her because she’s dead.”

She blinked, realizing that they hadn’t even thought about who might have told Kap. They should have.

“How?”

“She transferred back to the States after I told her that I wasn’t interested in a relationship. A car accident. Bad weather.”

Or, she had help.

“Who did you think sold you out to the press?”

She shrugged. “Marv tried to tell me it was you. I knew better. You would never do that to me, no matter how pissed you were. Above all else, you wouldn’t do that because of national security.”

He said nothing, and she looked at him. “What?”

“The fact that you believed in me when I didn’t give you the same courtesy. Kind of makes me feel like an ass.”

She smiled. “You weren’t the one lying.”

“You were doing your job. My ego was in overdrive trying to convince myself that you were bad because I was falling for you, and it scared the shit out of me.”

“What?”

He leaned forward and brushed his mouth over hers. “I was falling for you, still am if you want to know that truth.”

Before she could answer him, there was pounding on the door.

“Come on, love birds. We have information,” Graeme called out.

“That Scot has lousy timing.” He gave her a quick kiss on the mouth before he rose out of bed. He was pulling on his pants, and she was still trying to wrap her head around the fact that he said he was falling for her.

“Kap.”

He paused as he grabbed his shirt off the floor.

“What’s wrong?”

She wanted to tell him that she never stopped loving him. That in the last three years, she had tried to get herself free of the hold he had over her. That he hurt her so badly, and she should never forgive him, but she couldn’t. Not now with everything on the line.

“Listen, I want to talk all of this out, but with this bastard out there, we need to take every lead as fast as we can. I feel that we’re close, so we get this done, then we talk it out.”

She smiled. “I’ll hold you to that.”

“I’m counting on it.”

Once she got dressed, they hurried downstairs. The TV screen was on, and she recognized Emma Delano and Team Alpha member Drew Franklin. She knew he was helping out when Charity needed breaks.

“So, what do we have?” she asked.

“We’re waiting on your brother to show up on screen. We thought it best to wait until you were, you know…not disheveled,” Tamilya said under her breath.

She said nothing to that. Eden and El were more than twins. They had been teammates, working together as assets. They were best friends.

Another window opened. Her brother and Seth popped up on the screen together.

“Oh, good. Finally. I felt like this was taking forever,” Emma said.

“What do you have?” Eden asked.

“We have a connection among all the victims. Well, several connections. First, we discovered something odd about you all. Did you know that all of you had family members in the CIA?”

“No. I mean, I knew about Green’s uncle,” El said.

“Yeah, he would brag about it all the time,” Eden said.

“Well, all of you had some kind of connection, either through parents, grandparents, or, in Green’s case, an uncle or aunt.” “Sam.”

“Who?” Emma asked.

“Sam. She had a father and a mother. So maybe we weren’t the reason she was burned,” Eden said, looking at her brother.

“Could be.”

“Well, we can sort that out later,” Emma said. “Another thing that we found for all of you, including both you and your brother.”

This woman was killing her with her dramatic pauses. “What?”

“Every single one of you had a price on your head.”

“Are you saying that there was a hit on each of us?”

“Yep. And both you and Elwood have active hits on you right now.”

“It’s been on us that long? Three years?”

“No,” Emma said. “This hit was put on you just in the last three months.”