Page 41 of Invincible
They followed the truck to an area closer to the ship channel where several low rent hotels were.Pulling in near the building next door, Dex shut off the car so they wouldn’t be noticed as easily.He had rolled down the windows, but all Tyler could hear were the men murmuring to each other.
“What do we do now?”she asked.
“We wait to make sure they go inside, then I’ll put the tracker on the truck.”They waited while the men filed up the stairs to the second floor.Dex made a note of the room they disappeared into, as well as the address of the hotel in his small notepad.
After fifteen minutes, he opened the car door to get out.“Wait here, I’ll be right back.”Taking the vehicle tracker that would send a signal to his iPad when it left again, he started toward the truck.
He had just ducked down to find a good spot to attach the tracker when the door to the room opened.The man who had been hitting on Greer all night started down the stairs.Tyler slowly opened the car door, stepping out.Fortunately, Dex had turned the interior light off earlier.
She wasn’t positive about what she was going to do, but she needed to create a distraction somehow so Dex could get away.Looking behind the truck, she saw that he had heard the man and was still squatted behind it.
For a moment, she thought he was going to return to the room when he paused on the sidewalk, but he continued toward the driver’s side of the truck.Dex had remained ducked down, trying to ease his way to the farthest side away from the man.
Tyler only debated for a second before she untucked her blouse, tying it just below her breasts, adding a little extra distraction to her already partly unbuttoned top.
“Hey.Hi there,” she called out to the man walking toward him.“Have you seen my little dog?”she asked, sticking her chest out a little excessively at him.He took the bait, though, turning to smile at her.As bad as he made the hair on the back of her neck stand up, she kept going.
“He’s about this tall,” she said, bending forward to demonstrate with her hand.The man’s smile grew even bigger as he leered at her.“He’s black with big brown eyes.I don’t know what happened, he just ran out when I opened my door.”
“I sure didn’t, but I can help you look,” he said, taking a step toward her.As bad as she wanted to break one of his limbs, she reminded herself how much they needed him to lead them to the warehouse they were hiding Mia in.Besides, if this was a bad lead, she could always break one later, like when he accosted Greer again in the club.
She giggled playfully at him instead.
“Oh, no.He’ll come back, I’m sure.Thanks, anyway.”Tyler turned to walk down the sidewalk.
“Hey, where you going, sweetheart?Come upstairs.We have a party going,” he called after her.She looked back over her shoulder where he was standing on the sidewalk, watching her with his hands out to the side.
“Next time.I really do have to find Cookie tonight.Bye.”She put an extra swing in her step to make sure his attention stayed on her instead of noticing Dex.When she was at the end of the building, she swung around the corner to wait for him to go back inside.
“Hey,” a voice called from behind her, making her jump.“Sorry,” Dex whispered, stepping into the light.“Are you okay?”he asked, stepping up to her with searching eyes.“You’re a natural at this.”Tyler nodded as Dex took her hand to walk back to the car.
When they were settled in the car, he looked over at her with a smile.“Are you sure you’re okay?You’re shaking.”Tyler looked down at her hands.Much to her annoyance, he was right.
“I think it’s just the adrenaline dump.I’m not sure why.I mean, I dive off of offshore wells to weld underwater and I could have snapped his neck if he had touched me.Don’t understand why this would affect me.Maybe it was just the rush of trying to not get caught.”Dex sat quietly, staring at her until she finally began to squirm, wondering what she had said.
“Fuck, you’re sexy.I’ll tell you what I think.I think we’re going to try and not get caught if I can find somewhere quiet to pull over.Start working those shorts off.”
Tyler’s mouth dropped open as he started the car.Peeling out of the parking lot, she watched him as she tried to figure out what about her turned him on so much.
