“If you stare at that screen any harder, your eyes are going to explode.” Danny’s voice startled Hannah out of her trance.
“You’re not supposed to be here.” She smiled at him. “You’re an Alpha sex-god whose office is two floors down, not a Guardian who works along the corridor.”
Danny pouted.
“I wanted to tell you something, and went along to your old office, forgetting you wouldn’t be there.” He explained. “I was missing you, so I came to find you.”
“Sweetheart, we’ve only been in work an hour.” Hannah grinned. “That’s not long enough to miss me.”
Danny clutched at his chest, sagging against the doorframe.
“Are you trying to tell me you’re not missing me yet?” He gasped. “I’m cut to the quick! You’ve broken my heart, baby.”
Hannah recognised Danny’s mood as playful but needy, probably as a result of having to talk through her kidnapping the day before.
She stood up and edged around the desk.
“Danny, you know I miss you every second we’re not together.” Hannah smiled as she walked up and wrapped her arms around his waist, gazing up at him in adoration. “But when we agreed to get involved in the Guardians, we knew we wouldn’t be working together much for a while. I pulled on my big-girl panties, and I’ve been brave. Can’t you do the same?”
Danny smiled down into her face.
“Honey, if you’d told me you’d bought me some big-girl panties, I’d have put them on for you straight away. You know I’m always up for a bit of fun.” He leaned down to kiss her. “Doesn’t stop me wanting to see your smile, though, or watch you tippy-tap away on your laptop all day.”
“Tippy-tapping on my laptop? Is that what you think I do all day?” Hannah smiled.
“Honey, I’ve watched you tippy-tap for the last decade.” Danny leaned down to place a quick kiss on her nose. “For all I know you’re doing internet shopping, but you look so damn hot doing it, I’m way past caring if you blow all our money.”
“Sweetheart, there aren’t enough hours in the day for me to spend all of our money on internet shopping.” Hannah shrugged. “Besides, I only ever buy stuff for you and the girls. I can’t remember the last time I bought any clothes for me.”
“Hannah, you never buy yourself any clothes because your mom ships all the free designer clothes she gets sent straight to you.” Danny pointed out. “Well, the ones without rhinestones, anyway.”
“I know.” Hannah grinned. “And I take the ones I like and ship the rest back, so they can be auctioned for her charity. Which means I don’t need to waste my time online shopping and can actually concentrate on work.”
Danny shrugged.
“Ok, so you’re not doing your internet shopping.” He conceded. “So, what had you so engrossed that I was able to stand in the doorway for thirty seconds without you even noticing?”
“I had another message from our source inside the gang.” Hannah frowned. “They’re bringing forward the next trip as they’ve had a big delivery of women come in from the southern border. Probably Syria, although it could be Iraq. Anyway, it means we’re going to have to get the Guardians ready to ship out by the weekend. The shipment leaves on Monday.”
“Does JT know yet?” Danny asked, already knowing the Guardians weren’t nearly ready to go yet.
“I had just replied to the message and was just about to go and tell him.” Hannah explained. “Are you seeing the guys this morning?”
“Yeah, we were due to meet up with Abbey at ten-thirty, for a follow-up chat, just in case they had any questions. Why?”
“Because it would probably be a good idea to let them know that the timeline is being moved up already.” Hannah frowned. “There’s still a lot for them to learn before they ship out.”
“I can pass on the message.” Danny nodded. “Anything else I can do?”
“Yeah, just tell them to be in the conference room at two o’clock. I’m going to have to drum this stuff into their heads in double-quick time.”
Hannah’s mind was already racing a mile a minute, realising exactly how much they needed to know, and how little time they had to learn it all.
“I’m going to see JT, so you’re going to have to make yourself busy with the guys for a while.” She glanced up at Danny. “Do you think you can manage to do that without missing me too much?”
Danny scowled at her.
“Nope, not for one minute.” He grouched. “But I’ll just picture myself in a pair of your big-girl panties, and I’m sure I’ll muddle through.”
Hannah reached up to plant a sloppy kiss on her husband’s lips.
“You do that, sweetheart.” She grinned. “And then as a reward, you can picture me peeling them off you later.”
She stepped back before he could take their kiss further and darted for the door.
“And you’ve gone and done it again!” Danny growled. “How am I supposed to go into a meeting with six guys with my cock as stiff as a flagpole?”
Hannah paused long enough to turn and grin at him.
“You’ll figure it out” She chuckled. “Apparently, you’ve had plenty of practise.”