Page 97 of Undercover Savior

David set his glass on the table and put his head in his hands. “Good God.”

“Yes,” I whispered. “Good God.”

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“Argh,” I groaned, wishing we hadn’t agreed to a zero-eight-hundred start time today. I doubted I’d slept more than one hour. Sullivan probably hadn’t gotten much more rest than that.

“Go back to sleep,” she mumbled.

“We cannot. Fallon is arriving at eight, remember?”

“Bloody hell,” she moaned, rolling over. We hadn’t made love last night or this morning, and while I’d sayyet, we had very little time to dress and report to the castle as it was. My body—my cock, in particular—ached with need.

“David?”

“Yes, my love?”

“Can you please contact Con and ask him to delay?”

As much as I wanted to give in and do as she asked, there was an urgency, based on Sullivan’s theory about AIWS, that couldn’t be ignored.

“You know we cannot.”

She rolled to face me. “You’re a taskmaster.”

“And you’re a brilliant, beautiful, inquisitive, investigative genius.”

“Compliments will not get me out of bed any faster. In fact, the opposite is true.”

When I stood and held out my hand, her eyes traveled the length of my body, stopping at my midsection.

“We could take a quick shower,” she suggested.

“I fear the only way that would help is if it’s ice cold.” I wiggled my fingers. “Come. The sooner the meeting is over, the sooner we can return to our love nest.”

“How can I deny such sweetness?” She scooted closer to where I stood.

When she got up and pressed her nakedness next to mine, I suddenly didn’t care if we kept the others waiting all damned day. “A shower it is,” I said, pulling her with me.

“Only if it’s warm.”

“Not warm, Sullivan. It will be scorchingly hot.”

She rolled her eyes but followed me anyway.

“Ready?”I asked when we were about to leave for the castle.

“Not really. The truth is, beyond my theory, I don’t know that much about AI and how it relates to weaponry. What if they all think I’m crazy?”

“I don’t think you’re crazy. That must count for something.”

“Of course it does.”

“Like everything else, we’ll present it to the group for consideration and see where it leads. Okay?”

“Okay. Oh, and there’s one other thing.”

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