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I smile. “Clearly this should be my hand.” I point to her hand.
Her face breaks into a big smile. “Still on the poker theme.”
“It’s all in the cards.” I shake my head. “It’s getting old. How are you, Virginia Ross?” I lean on the desk table in the meeting room at SOAR.
She crosses her legs Indian style facing me. “I’m still amazed at how fast I got information back today. Sarah said you got everyone motivated. Thank you for that. I miss you, Julius my JAG.”
She’s too much. “Mucimi showed and got everyone motivated. I had them watch him motivating me. I didn’t realize how much the team does to keep you moving in a job not one of us can do. I miss you too, baby.” His hand comes toward me and he moves it like he’s trying to caress my arm.
“I miss that caress. I always wonder if any of them get that I mean it when I say I can’t do any of it without every one of them. I’d still be planning if it weren’t for everyone’s contacts and know-how. We learn a lot of shit in the 160th but we can’t do anything alone except fly. Everyone that shows there can fly.” She’s disgusted.
I laugh. “You’re so much more than a pilot. I’m proud of you and everything you do. The Brothers say,honored your mine.Tell me what you need and I’ll find a way.”
“Julius the Jag, I do love that about you.”
I blow a kiss at her getting a snort back. I miss that too. We talk about the Club, the kids and Sarah with no tears today. She thinks the kids are good for Sarah.
An hour in and we’re laying on the table still talking.
Two hours in and she messes with the computer so we have a nighttime sky. My girl falls asleep and I spout everything that I love about her so she hears my voice in her dreams.
Chapter Eleven
Three days
SOAR
Julius
I hold the strawberry shortcake tart while the crew jumps down. Before I climb up on the BSC chopper she flew in from Phoenix, I pull the fork out of my front pocket and slide it in the back. That could have hurt.
She’s still in the seat making me happy because it’s a good place to eat her cake. The lead nods for me with a smile for the little sweet cake. I step closer and he walks to the door. I don’t care if he stays but maybe he has shit to do.
My Virginia Ross is typing on a tablet that extends down from the panel above on what looks like a robotic arm. They are good with the accessories carrying on the Badass theme.
“You look good enough to feed.”
Her smile lights the cockpit up. “You know exactly how to keep a woman. I love your mom for teaching you.”
I bend and hand her the tart and fork, then lean in for my kiss. The fork drops but she holds my shirt so I’m not moving to pick it up for her…yet. I’d be a fool to move. The kiss has the promise of more but I know that’s not here and not now. I still take all she’s giving and return the promise.
“Sorry, Bosses.” A crew member interrupts.
Her smile stops the kiss and my secret hope of more right here right now.
Her snort tells me she knows just what I was thinking. “Later, Julius the Jag. I need this cake, then to send the log, then to see the babies, and my home team…”
I kiss her quick, then smile. “First, cake. Tell me the list as we finish each step that gets me closer to my dick buried in you.”
The cough has me raising a finger for the crew that’s nosy.
She laughs looking for her fork. “Got it. Talking should be on your list of life choices. Tell me about the bikers going in to Security."
I sit and talk. She’s proud of Raven and his two officers doing well at Phoenix. The others scattered to different states and all but four joined Badass. Some BSC, the others in Clubs working for the new Bible. Ranger said they’re all working for it. She smiles with whipped cream on the edge of her upper lip. I lean and lick it off.
“I like the real whipped cream. I should make some for bed.”
She almost drops the rest of her cake. She’s not eating fast enough. “Julius the JAG, you are focused and that will come in handy, but I have a ton of shit to do before I can explore whipped cream. Don’t tease and get me info that gets you what you want faster.” Her need to get there too is a turn on.
