Secret Seduction (10 page)

Katie watched as he relaxed beside her and knew she had no plans for tonight to follow the same pattern as last night. Rolling onto her side, she slid her leg over his, running her hands over his bare chest. She watched as his eyes heated.

“Katie?”

“Shhh.” She put her fingers over his mouth, then ran her lips and tongue over his chest, enjoying rolling her tongue over his flat nipples until they peaked, much like hers had. She nibbled on them with her teeth and his hands went into her hair, trying to hold her still. She moved lower down his stomach, enjoying the play of muscles that ran down across each rib and over his muscular stomach. She loved his sexy six pack and couldn’t stop playing her fingers over the dips.

When she came across a new scar on his left rib, she looked up at him.

“Where did you get this?” She traced the line with her finger.

“Hmm, I got nipped by a bull when you decided you wanted to take part in the running of the bulls in Spain.”

“You were there for the festival?” She smiled, remembering the thrill she’d had climbing the fence, getting away from the bulls, not to mention the week long party she’d enjoyed. Oh, she’d never been in any real danger, but watching the bulls and people run by had been a thrill.

“Yes, I got caught in the crowd and ended up in front of a very big, brown bull.” He ran his hands through her hair.

She traced the line of his scar, happy to know that he’d somehow been a part of her reckless behavior. Then she ran her tongue over the line and he moaned, and she moved lower, past his belly button. He held onto her head until she used her teeth to pull his boxers down his narrow hips, then he fisted his hands beside him on the bed. She looked at him and noticed he was watching her with his clouded, dark blue eyes.

Using her hands, she pushed his shorts lower over his sexy hips until finally she saw all of him. He was bigger than she imagined and she was starting to have second thoughts. But she never backed away from a challenge, and she saw him as just that.

Running her hand over the length of him, she noticed that he was holding his breath and watching her very closely. She ran her fingers up and down him lightly, and he almost jumped in her hands.

Smiling, she leaned over and placed a soft kiss on the head, then using her tongue, she rolled her mouth around the tip until she felt him go stiff. She licked the entire length from bottom to top and then took him into her mouth, deep into her throat, until she felt his hands in her hair again. He tasted sexy and she couldn’t get enough of enjoying him.

Rolling her tongue around as she took him deep, she enjoyed the feel and taste of him as she pleased him. He moaned her name and she heard him begging her.

“My God, Katie, I’m going to come in your mouth if you keep that up.” His hands were in her hair.

She looked up into his eyes, “You promise?” Then she went back to torturing him until she felt his hot seed flood her mouth, and the tangy taste of him almost undid her. She lightly licked every inch of him clean.

Then she moved up the bed and whispered, “Now we’re even.”

He chuckled.“No, not even close,” he said and he pulled her co him.

“Jason?”

“Shh, Katie, I know what you want. Just let me hold you now.” He put his face into her hair and she could have sworn he started snoring.

It had always been this way with him. Not them laying naked together, but he’d always been able to fall asleep quickly.

When they had been living together, on nights when they were both free they’d end up watching old TV shows or movies in the living room. She would always hear him snoring in the chair if he was too tired to enjoy a full movie. She chuckled at the almost child-like ability he had at shutting himself down, and kind of envied it.

Laying there in the dark, her mind kept running over and over how she was going to finally get what she wanted from him. By the time her eyes closed, she thought she had her plan all laid out.

Katie woke the next morning and blinked a few times before she realized she was in the bed alone. Stretching her hands over her head, she smiled to herself, remembering the night before. She’d never thought something like that was possible, let alone that it would feel so… so… awesome!

Looking around the room, she wondered where he was. Quickly getting up, she went to clean up in the bathroom. As she reached for the door handle, she heard him talking on the other side of the door. She leaned her head against the door, silently wishing for a glass to hold up against the wood so she could hear better.

“No, I told you, I didn’t speak to anyone. It’s like they were waiting for us. – Yeah, I know. –  Okay, are you sure? – You know she’s not going to like – yeah – okay.”

She quickly jumped back in the bed when she heard him walking towards the door. Shutting her eyes quickly, she tried to slow her breathing.

The door opened and she wished she’d had the forethought to turn her head away from the bathroom.

“You’re not fooling me, you know.”

She sat up and smiled at him. “I don’t know what you mean.” Getting up quickly, she tried to walk around him to get into the bathroom.

He blocked her easily with his arm. “Katie, we have to maintain phone silence until we get to Rome to meet your dad and brother.”

She looked at him and noticed that he had shaved that morning. She wanted to run her hands over the smooth surface, but instead she asked, “Why?”

“Just a hunch,” he said and when she continued to stare at him, he took a deep breath, “Okay, I think they knew we were heading to the airport. They were waiting there, not at the bus station, not the train station. The airport. Doesn’t that seem a little odd?”

She thought about it, and now that he mentioned it, it was weird. “Well, maybe there were others waiting at the other places.”

“No, I don’t think so. I think someone told them where we were headed and how we were traveling to get there. I think they will be watching all the routes to Rome.”

“Well, then,” tossing up her hands she started pacing the floor, “what are we going to do? Not go?”

“No, we’re just going to have to take less traveled routes.”

“What did you have in mind?”

He walked to her and placed a light kiss on her forehead.

“We’d better be going.”

“Jason, I hate it when you leave me in the dark. I’m not going anywhere until I know exactly what it is you have planned.” She crossed her arms and glared at him.

Four hours later they were sitting on a bus driving south and Katie felt defeated. How did he have such power over her? She glared at him as he sat in the seat across from hers.

“I hate you, you know.”

“That’s nice,” he said, not looking up from the newspaper he was pretending to read. She knew he wasn’t really reading it because it was all in Greek.

“You can’t even read that.” She pushed it down until he was looking at her. “You promised me some answers. Since we’re stuck on this bus for over an hour, now is the perfect time for you to give me some.”

He leaned closer to her and she could smell his musky scent and wanted to lean into him, but held back and kept her arms crossed. She hoped that she had a determined look on her face, fooling him into giving her those answers.

“Fine,” he leaned back. “I was hired to track you down by your family. I’ve been following you since September. There, are you happy?” He lifted the paper again so she grabbed it, wadded it up, and tossed it on the floor.

“I know all that, the question I want answered is… Who?”

“Who, what?”

“We are not playing this game. Who hired you?”

“Does it really matter?”

“Yes! If it was her, I’m getting off this bus right now and you can kiss my…”

“Really?” Instead of looking shocked, he had the most devilish grin on his face. Then she realized what she had been about to say and what he had done to her last night, and her face turned beat red.

It took her almost a full minute for the heat in her body to dissipate.

“Jason, tell me who hired you.”

“No.”

“Then you’ve just confirmed that it was her.” She moved to stand up, and he grabbed her by the arm and pushed her into the seat next to his.

“Stop this, you’re not going anywhere. Why does it matter who’s been fronting my bills? What matters is, I’ve been following you to make sure you’re okay.”

“Fronting your bills? We both know why she hired you. Why she picked you for the job is a mystery to me, but this is just her way of keeping me under her wing. Her viscous, cheating, controlling wing. I don’t care what she has paid you, the fact that you have even been talking to her makes you a traitor in my book.” She was working herself into an emotional state. She was upset that she’d let it go this long. This time when she got up to move, he grabbed his bag and followed her. When she finally convinced the driver to stop, Jason followed her off the bus.

“No! You don’t get to get off the bus now!” She tried to push him back on, but he just laughed at her until she turned and stormed off down the road.

Now she was still stuck with him, the biggest traitor imaginable, and they were in the middle of… looking around, Katie realized there was nothing but hills and grass. Nowhere, again! She could just make out the bus as it disappeared over a hill.

“Aaugh!” She tossed down her bag and rounded on him. “You! How could you do this? First, you embarrass me at the party, then at the coffee shop, then on national television. And now …” She poked him in the chest, but he didn’t even blink. She turned and started pacing; she was on a roll and didn’t want to stop. “Now you’re taking her money, sleeping with the enemy so-to-speak, doing her bidding, stabbing me in the back, selling me down the river, no… worse,” she pointed her finger in his face, “Judas…” she was almost running out of steam, so she turned and started pacing again.

“Are you almost done?” he asked with a tight smile.

“No!” she rounded on him again. The hurt showed on her face and she knew the moment he saw it. “Why her? Why not my brother or my fathers, either one of them?”

He walked forward and took her shoulders in his hands gently. “Katie, she was the only one who asked me. She was frantic those first weeks. She called me almost daily, asking if I knew anything about where you would have gone. Then a few months after your parents’ divorce was final, she asked me to follow your trail and she paid my way. She just wanted to know that you were okay.”

He pulled her close and just held on. “To be honest, I was just about to come after you myself if she hadn’t asked me. I would have done it for free, but she insisted on paying for the travel expenses. You really scared everyone, leaving the way you did, not taking a phone, not contacting anyone to let us know where you were or that you were okay.”