Page 19 of No Escape
Bracing his body up with a hand on either side of my head, he pulled his lips from mine and looked down into my eyes. “We shouldn’t be doing this.”
I nodded, my voice coming out as a whisper when I answered, “I know.”
“But God, I want to.”
The hard ridge of his cock as it pressed against my pelvis was evidence of that. Crossing my ankles behind his back, I pulled him tighter to me as I thrust my pelvis against his groin. “I do too.”
“We don’t even know each other, Elle.”
“We know what matters.” Pulling my lower lip between my teeth, I tried to simmer the desire that had begun to rage within.
“Dammit.” He closed his eyes and when he reopened them, the fire had faded slightly. Taking a deep breath in, he slowly released it and then pushed himself off my body. “We’re not thinking clearly.”
I was both relieved and disappointed. I didn’t have the willpower to stop what had started between us and didn’t want to. But he’d made the decision for us both. “You’re right.” Releasing him from my hold, I groaned as I sat up on the bed. “So what now?”
“I’m going to make some phone calls. We’ll go to another town and stay for the next couple of days until we can get more information and then proceed from there.”
“Does the agency that you work for know where we are?”
“Not exactly, but I’m not going to take any chances. We need to disappear until I can make sense of it all.”
“Good thing we have a bag of cash,” I couldn’t resist joking.
Laughing he threw his hands up in the air. “You got me there.”
“You know, that looks good on you.”
He frowned as he looked at his wrinkled t-shirt and jeans. “What?”
“That smile. You should do it more often.”
His smile returned, along with a faint rosy glow to his cheeks. “I’ll keep that in mind.” Walking back over to the bed, he grabbed my hand and pulled me to my feet. Dipping his head he placed a feather-light kiss on my lips before pulling away. “Do you think you can keep yourself out of trouble while I make some calls before we take off?”
Shooting him a pouty look, I replied, “We’ll just have to see, won’t we.”
9
DAYTON
Another day, another shit town we’re pulling into.
Instead of traveling southwest toward California, I continued our journey south down the 95. While I was sure I could trust my colleagues at the Hunters’ Guild, you never could be too safe. Not with someone like Elle in my charge.
“Can we upgrade motels for the next couple nights?”
“Nope, gotta stay at places that take cash. We’re close to you possibly getting out of this mess. We can’t mess it up now.”
I looked over at her sitting in the passenger seat. This entire thing seemed so surreal to me. But even more surreal than the situation was how attracted I was to her. It was as if something in me snapped this morning. When I woke up and discovered her gone, I’d gone into a panic. The overwhelming relief I’d felt and the anger that followed once I discovered she was okay was very unlike me.
I’d lost control.
For a man who prided himself for always having a sound mind and maintaining control at all costs, this feeling was foreign—yet enticing.
It didn’t help that physically, she was perfection in every way. Her obsession with food and underlying insecurities about how she looked just made her human. When I’d first seen her mugshot and realized she’d been my new case, I’d expected someone much different than the girl in the other seat who was humming along to the song on the radio.
How I was going to be able to restrain myself I was unsure. If she initiated something, I’d be a goner for sure. It took everything I had in me this morning to put a halt to our having sex.
She reached across the seats to place her hand on my inner thigh, inches from my dick. Well, this could be a problem.
