Page 68 of Operation: Valiant Angel

“Reina, you shouldn’t call or text anyone yet,” he said.

“If you have my phone, then you know that you’re pretty much the only person I regularly call or text. I was told to lie low by the Marshals and that’s what I’ve done.”

“Then why do you need your phone?”

“It would be nice just to be able to see the time or scroll news groups, play some games, or listen to music,” she said, feeling annoyed she had to justify why she wanted her phone.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “Of course, it would and to just feel normal again. Yeah, I’ll get it for you. Are you hungry? There’s left over Chinese in the fridge. I could get you a plate.”

“No, but I’d really love to take a shower and maybe change my clothes if anyone has anything that would fit me.”

“I’m sure that’d be fine, though you should probably not get your head wet where you were hit.”

She nodded. “And I’d love to brush my teeth.”

“You can use my toothbrush if you’d like. I doubt anyone has an extra,” he offered.

He got himself a plate of fried rice while she was in the bathroom. He insisted she leave the door cracked open. Every few minutes he’d yell in, asking if she was okay even though she guaranteed him she didn’t feel dizzy at all. He was worried she’d suddenly feel lightheaded and fall. He also got her a pair of his flannel sweatpants with a drawstring closure, his favorite long sleeved black compression base layer shirt, and a pair of thermal socks. That’d keep her warm.

She came out of the bathroom dressed in his clothing; a towel wrapped around her hair. She was rubbing her hands together. “Damn, am I ever going to stop feeling so cold?” she asked as she padded back over to the bed. She flattened the pillows and crawled back into bed, lying on her side and pulling her legs up tightly to her abdomen.

“Here, let me help to warm you,” Wilson said, immediately crowding in beside her and pulling the bedcovers over them both. He took her into his arms and held her close. She straightened her legs and pulled her body flush up against his. Satisfaction rolled through him, knowing that his body heat would help warm her. “Body heat,” he added with a smile.

She laid her head on the pillow, her eyes gazing into his, which hovered over her. She instantly felt his body heat. She watched him shuffle a bit, readjusting his position so that his head was on the pillow beside hers and she found herself gazing into his beautiful blue eyes.

“I could get used to this,” she said with a small smile.

When she rested her hand on his chest, the sensation of her touch shot straight to his cock. He kissed her forehead and then the tip of her nose, wanting to kiss so much more of her, but knowing this wasn’t the time for it, not after what she’d just been through. And he didn’t want her to think she owed him anything.What Garcia had previously said came back to him. Rae needed to know that he didn’t expect her to spread her legs for him as payment for anything he did, including rescuing her.

Her whole body buzzed with the sensation of his body against hers, of his arms around her, holding her close, of his lips on her skin. She yearned to feel those lips on hers.

Wilson allowed his hand, holding her back, to stroke over it softly. He took in the incredible sensation of holding her in his arms, the length of his body pressed to hers. He liked how she melted into him, accepting his comfort. He gazed into her eyes, lit with life and adoration for him in her return stare.

His hand drifted up her arm, over her shoulder, and up her neck. He caressed softly over her cheek, his fingers lingering on her neck. He enjoyed the softness of her skin, craved the closeness to her, wanted more, a lot more.

The sensation of his touch was electric. “I like it when you do that,” she said. His thumb brushed over her lower lip, and she trembled. She exhaled hard, wanting it to be his lips. She ran her hand over his hard chest and up to his shoulder, unaware that instinctively she pulled her body closer to his.

“I was so worried about you the entire time,” he said in a whisper. He pressed a soft kiss to her lips and then pulled less than half an inch away. “I would have moved heaven and earth to find you.” He pressed a second kiss to her lips, which lasted longer. When he spoke again, his lips were still against hers. “I promised myself I’d tell you how I feel about you when we found you.”

Reina not only heard his words, but she felt them, his lips on hers as he spoke. She was frozen in the incredible moment.

His next kiss was a slightly opened mouth kiss. As she opened her mouth to him, he sucked her bottom lip into his mouth,earning him an erotic moan from her and her hand on his shoulder gripped it harder. He rolled atop her, both hands grasping the sides of her face, and he kissed her more deeply than he’d ever kissed anyone. He was completely in the moment. No other thoughts but enjoying this perfect kiss entered his mind.

Reina, at that moment, was just Rae again. The constant reminding herself what her new identity was evaporated. All that mattered was the kiss, the all-consuming kiss. An inferno raged inside her, a desire, a need for this man, something she’d never felt. She’d been with a lot of men, a lot, but no kiss had ever felt like this before. The weight of his body on hers was exciting. She wanted him to make love to her because she knew it would be an emotional coupling as well as a physical one. He would make love to her. He wouldn’t have sex with her. He wouldn’t fuck her.

She was confused when, after several wonderful minutes, he pulled away and hovered his head over hers. She could feel his breath blow over her lips. His lips were still close. Her eyes fluttered open when his lips hadn’t returned to hers after a few seconds.

“That felt just like I thought it would,” he said quietly. “Rae, I’ve known for some time that I’ve had feelings for you beyond friendship. You’re important to me. I can’t imagine my life without you in it. That became clear when you were taken. I was worried about you and would have moved heaven and earth to find you because if you’d never been found or if, God forbid, you’d been killed, I’d be a mess without you. And I didn’t realize it until you’d been taken.”

She reached her lips back to him and initiated an open mouth kiss that communicated her feelings in return. Her kisses were given freely with fervor, her entire focus on tasting him, hermouth becoming one with his in preparation for her body to be completely open to him.

After several more really active minutes of kissing and caressing each other, he pulled away again. “Not here, not now, but soon.”

“Why?” she gasped.

“The team will be back soon.” He kissed her forehead. “Besides, I want to do this right with you, Rae.”

“What does that mean?”

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