Page 51 of Game of Love
Fuck, I really was such an idiot.
I didn’t know how I’d gone from my self-caution not to go there with her to filling my palm with her breasts and wondering what her nipples would taste like, then very nearly finding out.
I just about lost it when she told me it was okay to touch her.
God, did I ever want to.
The pizza came and we ate. Wes talked his usual shit then got on the phone to talk to a woman. It left me with Ethan and suddenly it was like I was transported back to the good old days.
This felt like back then— the point in my life when I’d reached the destination that direction guided me.
I was happy working in the unit. It felt like I was in my element for the first time in my life.
“You really look like you had a bad day,” Ethan stated.
“It was just difficult.” Difficult for many reasons.
I didn’t want to get close to Jia. It wasn’t fair. It was just that the more time I spent with her, the more I saw that desperation.
Today was filled with it.
She wasn’t like her father. Nothing like him. However that didn’t give me a hall pass to shake the nest.
“This whole mission is difficult, Xander.”
“And the days are going by. I’m none the wiser about where the prints are. And something is up with Giovanni. I mean something more. That attack on his men has him riled up real bad and he’s taking it out on his daughter.”
That was what it was. He was worried for her safety and worried he couldn’t control her.
“Remember he has a lot to lose if shit goes down. I’ve been thinking, based on what you said yesterday about the Castle and the vaults, it does seem like it could be a place where he’d keep the prints.”
“You think so?”
“Yes.” Ethan nodded. “Under his nose. There’s no point having them someplace far away if he’s got all the security he could ever have right there at the hotel. It’s perfect for it. What got me thinking is what you said about him taking a year to show his guys his secrets and you getting access straight away. It suggests he has something worth protecting.”
I straightened up and contemplated it. It seemed plausible.
“I’m gonna focus there then.” It was good to know that my initial assumption might be right. Over the last few days I’d been watching everyone’s movements. Someone was always around the Castle area. “The secrets are in the vaults sounds like the kind of place they might be.”
“If you find it Xander…” He paused. “Let’s just say it would be really good.”
“It would be. Game over.”
Game over for the mission, but not for everything else.
Jia…
I really shouldn’t have kissed her.
It made me feel for her and I wondered how things would play out.
There she was.
Like a breath of fresh air she walked into the conference room and I swore all eyes diverted to her.
Every man stopped what he was doing, stopped mid-conversation no matter how serious the discussion was. They all looked at her.
Dressed in a long gold gown tonight, the blond looked like she’d just stepped out of a dream. The dress hugged her body, caressing her the way I wanted to, like the taste I had last night.
