Page 75 of Never Again

“If you could stop pacing, that would be great, thanks,” the woman who’d nearly fucking destroyed him drawled.

“It’s keeping me sane,” Nathan said even as he forced himself to stop pacing and dropped down in the chair across from Casey, who hadn’t looked up once since she’d started doing whatever the hell she was doing.

Other than confuse him, that is.

Last night, he’d nearly lost his fucking mind when the first tear rolled down her face. The sob that followed fucking destroyed him, but the feel of her in his arms…

God, he’d never felt anything like it.

He didn’t know how to describe it, but he knew one thing, he’d never wanted to let her go. He’d kept his arms wrapped around her long after she’d stopped crying, needing to know that she was safe and surprisingly, it had nothing to do with Bailey. He just…

Fuck.

He’d never wanted to let her go and that feeling only grew stronger this morning when he woke up with Casey in his arms, running her fingertips along his jaw. With every caress, he’d felt all the tension in his body fade away, leaving him struggling not to groan while her fingertips traced a path along his jaw.

When he felt her move away, it took everything in him to let her go and-

“You left this morning,” Nathan said accusingly as he narrowed his eyes on the small woman that had felt so fucking good in his arms.

“Didn’t have a choice,” Casey said, not bothering to look up from her computer as she continued working.

“You could have stayed,” Nathan said, wondering why he was reacting to her this way.

“I could have,” Casey murmured in agreement with a nod before adding, “but if I did, whoever was trying to copy everything from Haven Technologies server would have everything they needed before they crashed it.”

“What?” he asked, trying to make sense of what she was saying.

“Someone’s trying to copy all your files, but I put a stop to it along with the virus they’ve tried to unleash on your system,” Casey said, shrugging it off like it was no big deal, but it was a big fucking deal.

“Tell me that you’re fucking joking,” Nathan said, moving to get up and tear the computer out of her hands so that he could see for himself, but the small woman simply grumbled something to herself as she got up, crossed the short distance to his chair and-

“Look,” Casey said, crawling onto his lap as she turned the computer around so that he could see what she was talking about.

“What the hell am I looking at?” Nathan asked, trying to focus on the computer screen instead of the small woman driving him fucking crazy.

“Right now, they’re downloading the dummy files that I created,” Casey said, shifting to get more comfortable as she pointed to the progress bar in one corner. “This is the virus that they tried to upload to the system, which I’m guessing is meant to distract everyone from what they’re really doing as well as destroy everything once they got what they wanted, but I managed to block it,” she explained as she pointed to the other corner.

“The progress bar is moving,” Nathan pointed out, doing his best not to panic, but it was a quickly losing battle knowing what was at risk here.

Everything.

“That’s what they’re seeing too, but the program has been stopped. I managed to delete what they sent and turned it back around on them, hiding it in the dummy folders so that they get a surprise along with this,” Casey said, pointing at the bottom of her screen where another progress bar was almost complete.

“What’s that?” Nathan asked, watching as the progress bar reached 98, 99, and then finally, 100.

“That,” Casey said with flourish as she turned the computer around between them, only to smile when she glanced down at the screen, “is the end to this game.”

CHAPTER46

Emerald Bay, Florida

“Bailey,” Quinn whispered as he pressed a kiss against her bare shoulder, only to feel his lips twitch when the woman who normally acted like the Energizer Bunny grumbled pathetically in her sleep.

That was followed by a mutter, a whimper, and the cutest fucking pout that he’d ever seen as Bailey threw herself onto her stomach, shifted, and grumbled some more as she blindly reached down and grabbed the comforter and pulled it over herself as she curled up into a ball. When he reached over to adjust the comforter over her, Bailey released a vicious growl that had him chuckling.

It seemed that he finally found the one thing that was guaranteed to exhaust the small woman who never slept for more than a few hours at a time. As soon as she’d finished screaming his name, and Christ, just thinking about the way that she squeezed his cock dry had his cock hardening again, she’d mumbled something incoherently and ripped a groan from him when she decided to wiggle beneath him for the hell of it before she pulled him closer and promptly fell asleep.

When he shifted off her, she’d muttered angrily in her sleep, turned over, causing his sensitive cock to slip free from her, tearing another groan from him, curled onto her side, and shifted back against him as soon as he curled up behind her, and, of course, wiggled just to drive him fucking crazy. She was a cruel woman, Quinn thought as he moved closer so that he could curl up against her as he pressed a kiss against the back of her neck and-

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