Page 53 of Escape You

“I keep waiting for that not to happen. For sex with you to become ordinary and not so fucking good.” She panted in my ear, and my cock jerked inside her, making one last attempt to please her. I could spend the rest of my life doing just that.

My hands slid easily down her dewy skin, then up her stomach and onto her breasts. I didn’t want to let go. I wanted us to stay like this all day. “You’re so sexy. So sweet.” I kissed her.

She pulled away to meet my gaze, red cheeks and puffy eyes. “Didn’t we have something to do today?”

I chuckled. “Yeah, we have that crime fighting to do later, but it can wait.” I squeezed her nipple.

She gave me a quick peck on the lips and pushed off me. “We have to focus.”

“Okay.” I let out a breath and sat up to rest on the headboard while I watched her walk gloriously naked to the bathroom. I raked my hands through my hair, with a big smile on my face.

With Mia at a distance, my senses recovered quickly. Shit, we needed to get out of here and find a place where we could set up shop and run an operation to get Rossi. Asking the FBI for help was out of the question. We’d have to work with whatever resources Mia had at her disposal. Without Mavell, I had nothing. I had money, but would that buy us the talent we needed to mount this op?

Several minutes later, she emerged from the bathroom fully dressed in jeans, T-shirt, and combat boots. She’d put her hair up in a ponytail too. In short, she was ready for a fight.

“I was thinking I should go back to Jersey.” She leaned on the threshold to the bathroom. “Work from there. Rossi won’t care if you make him think you’re there to take over my crew.”

“As much as I’d like to see your place, and sleep in your bed, I don’t think that’s a good idea.”

The look she shot me said she’d been thinking about it too. A bit of normalcy would be nice.

“The FBI is watching your place.”

She hugged herself. “I’d been so careful not to get on their radar.”

“The whole situation brewing in New Jersey made them take notice. It wasn’t your fault.”

“Can you tell them you’re there to help Rossi?”

“I could, but then you know what they’ll ask me to do next.”

“Right. Bug my place.” She touched her fist to her forehead. “How are they even getting all these warrants to bug people left and right?”

“Clifton has a lot of influence. He’s been around for a while. Many people want what he wants.”

Someone had given Clifton carte blanche to do whatever he thought necessary to nail down this case. That had made him arrogant and a bit of a loose cannon. From our interaction a few days back, I got the sense he was willing to take this as far as it needed to go and to hell with collateral damage. The asshole hadn’t realized one of the people he was so willing to throw under the bus was the woman I loved and the mother of my child.

“I really thought I’d be going home today.”

“Sorry. Wherever I go, the FBI is gonna want in. Except…” Going back to Mia’s place wasn’t an option. I didn’t want her to be more implicated than she already was. “Except my condo.”

She braced her hands on her hips, shaking her head. “Your real home? Tyler, that’s too dangerous. What if Rossi finds out? What if he traces that back to the real you?”

“So what do you suggest? Stay here? We need a place where we can meet without the risk of being discovered?”

She paced the length of the room, her eyes a dark green focused on a spot right in front of her. “Right. We’ll need computers and private rooms.”

“That would be helpful.”

After a few more rounds, she stopped and beamed at me. “I have just the place. The hospital. Manny’s still there. I can talk to my friend Pam, who’s a doctor there, and see if she can extend his stay. We need his help anyway to decipher the rest of Rossi’s files. We need schedules, contacts, shipments, routes…” Her voice trailed off as she grabbed her phone. “I’ll have Vic meet us there. We need to figure this out today. I’ve been away too long.”

“I think that might work.” I rose to my feet, letting the sheet fall back on the bed. Mia did a double take from her device to me.

She cleared her throat. “You’re gonna need clothes.”

“I was getting to that.” I cupped her face and kissed her. “Maybe after all this is over, you and I can get away somewhere where clothing is optional. I would really like to stay in bed with you all day.”

“That would be nice. For now, we have things to do.” Her gaze dropped from my face down to my hard cock. Yeah, she had that effect on me. “Dammit. Just go.”

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