CHAPTER TWENTY
Friday Evening
Lucky walked into the Manos Hotel and felt the cool white marble of the interior soothe her tired eyes. Twelve hours in front of a computer screen had her brain just about fried. The tedium of running security software had hit her about four hours ago, along with a nasty case of jet lag, and she was ready to crash.
Dragging her feet along the floor, she thought of nothing more than a bath and room service until she looked down the long corridor and thought she saw Sam sitting in one of the green silk chairs. She wiped her hands over her eyes and decided not to order any wine with dinner because, clearly, her exhaustion was making her see things.
Except, the closer she got, the more the man in the chair resembled him, from the long legs to the broad shoulders and the perfectly polished shoes. Blinking several times, she stopped under the chandelier and stared as the man turned and gave her the perfect Sam Barton smile.
A tear slipped down her cheek as she watched him stand and move in her direction with his arms open. “Sammy?”
“Hey, Lucky.”
The moment his arms went around her, she buried her face in his chest, and that’s when the tears really began to flow. Not able to stop them, she simply wrapped her arms tightly around him and enjoyed her mini-breakdown in the middle of the lobby.
“The surprise didn’t turn out like I thought it would,” he said quietly against her hair. “But since you’re hugging me, I guess it’ll be okay.”
Pulling back, she looked up at him and tried to smile. “I’m so happy to see your face.”
“I guess a couple of days apart worked in my favor after all.”
She swatted at his chest and then wiped her eyes with her hand. “Don’t gloat.”
“Not doing anything close,” he replied as he stepped back and took her hand. “I couldn’t let you have all the fun, so I decided to come over and work the case from my end.”
“The band is back together?”
“Yes, we are. We were unbeatable when it came to Belikov and I expect we’ll be the same when it comes to the other Russian too.”
“Are you here officially?”
“Yes. Owen and I have already met with the local people and we’re starting to put a game plan together.”
“If I wasn’t so dog tired, I’d ask to hear about it, but I worked twelve hours today and I’m jet-lagged.” Glancing around, she took his hand. “Speaking of dogs, where’s ours?”
“She’s ensconced at your parents’ house and, before I left, your mother was talking about making her doggy meatballs. I think we’ll be fortunate to get her back when we return home.”
“Do you have to go back to your hotel tonight or can you stay with me?”
He took her hand and led her toward the concierge’s desk. “I didn’t fly to Brussels to share a room with Owen.”
She stood next to him as he spoke French to the gentleman behind the desk and claimed his bag. Once he had it, they headed toward the elevators. “I didn’t know you spoke French.”
“My mother is French Canadian and spoke to us exclusively in her native language when we were little. It drove my dad nuts because he never mastered the language, and he’d speak to his three boys in English and we would reply in French. The language stuck with me and when I entered the service and ended up in Delta, they sent me to language school.”
“So many things to discover,” she said as they stepped into the elevator. Looking up, she took a moment to study the man who flew halfway across the world to be with her and decided he was more attractive today than he was when they met.
Which meant he’d finally shown her his heart and she was smitten.
Realizing she was close to falling head over heels for him, she took a step back and tried to school her emotions. It was too soon, and she didn’t know enough to let herself go like her heart was urging her to.
Sam moved closer and put his arm around her shoulder and pulled her in. “Don’t get scared, Lucky. We’re meant to fall for one another even if it doesn’t make sense.”
“Does the FBI teach you to read minds?”
“No, but I can read you and I saw you pull yourself back and that means you got scared. I’m not going to let you hide and I won’t settle for anything less than all of you, so get yourself ready to accept what we’re becoming.”
The elevator doors opened, and she pulled him off. “In case you missed that small sound, it was my brain exploding. It can’t process what you just said, so you’ll have to repeat it in the morning.”
“I’ll repeat it a thousand times,” he said confidently as she slipped her key card into the door.
They walked into her room and he set his bag down on one of the chairs and looked around. “This sure beats the Marriott across town.”
“It’s privately owned, and I think some of the family members are still involved.” She dropped her bag, took off her coat, and then sat down on the bed. “Should we go downstairs for dinner or do you want to find someplace close by?”
“I thought we’d ravage one another and then order room service.” He took off his overcoat and draped it over the chair and then his suit coat. “But if you want to go out, we can.”
Seeing his hopeful smile, she stood and moved to him, splaying her hands against his chest, and bit her lip. “I think I’d like to have you for dinner.”
“I knew coming to Brussels was a good idea,” he replied as he rested his hands on her back.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were coming?” She asked as she wound her arms around his neck, and looked up.
“Because I wanted to see your unguarded expression when you saw me and I’m damn glad I did because I saw the truth of your feelings for me. So, from here on out, you can fight me as much as you want, but I know it won’t mean a thing since I’m in your heart.”
“I don’t think that’s…”
He pressed his finger to her mouth and shook his head. “Don’t start telling lies; your eyes already revealed everything.”
The moment he lifted his finger away, she started to protest, and he crashed his mouth against hers, kissing away the fake argument she was about to give him. He spoke eloquently with his tongue tangling with hers and she found herself giving in…just like he predicted.
***
Lucky had wrapped herself around his heart and there wasn’t a thing he could do. Looking down, he knew there would be no satisfaction for him until she loved him and let him in.
Not knowing if that was a possibility, he decided to focus on the here and now and skimmed his hand along the bottom of her sweater and then pulled it over her head. “Better,” he murmured nibbling the spot between her neck and shoulder as moved his hand to her pants and pushed them down her legs. Hearing her breath hitch, he slid his tongue across her skin and felt her shudder. “It’s time for me to show how much I missed you.”
Stepping away, he quickly got rid of her clothes and his and then stood facing her. “So many tempting places…” he tapped his finger against his mouth and smirked. “I’m hungry, so I think it’s time you feed me.” Hearing her inhalation as he skimmed his finger between her thighs, he rubbed in slow circles, teasing the sensitive flesh and grinned when he discovered she was wet and creamy. He took her mouth, kissed her deeply, and soon they were both panting as his animal nature fought to be set free.
He was going to claim her and when he was done, he prayed she’d be happy about it.
Looking down, he saw her golden hair tousled around her face, her glazed expression and her lips swollen from his kisses, which meant it was time…
He sank to his knees and inhaled the scent of her desire. Gripping her hips, he brought his tongue to the sweet honey that coated her pussy and reveled in her cries of pleasure as he sucked on her clit. Her hips began to move, so he moved to her opening, and speared his tongue inside.
Her hands tangled in his hair as her legs widened and he pulled back and alternated between gentle caresses and hard thrusts, keeping her just on edge.
“Please, Sam, don’t tease.”
“Now, what fun would that be?” he replied with a dark laugh. Skimming his fingers along her folds, he played a little before sinking one inside her.
“Ohhhh,” she shouted as she clamped down on his finger, flooding his mouth with her juices as her orgasm approached.
“You’re so tight around my finger and I can’t wait to feel you on my cock. You’ll be swollen from the orgasm I’m about to give you and I’ll have to push my way inside inch by inch as your pussy grips me tightly.”
“Please,” she begged as her knees wobbled.
Withdrawing his finger, he heard her whimper until he added a second and pushed back inside. He clamped his mouth on her bud and then sucked and flicked it rapidly until she exploded. Drinking her in, he sent her over one more time before she collapsed.
Wrapping her in his arms, he held her as she came down and returned to consciousness. “You with me, Lucky?”
“Barely.”
Feeling her heart pound against his chest, he felt his cock harden even further as his balls drew tight against his body. “Now I’ve claimed you and you can’t deny your feelings, Lucky.”
He stood slowly and held out his hand. “Let's have a shower.”
She looked up with a dazed expression and stood. “I think I’d follow any command you gave me.”
“That’s the idea.” Leading her into the bathroom, he turned on the water and waited for it to heat up. It was a good-sized shower and he decided to make use of it as he led her inside. When they entered the steamy enclosure, she surprised him by pulling him close and nipping at his bottom lip. Growling, he felt pleasure shoot straight to his cock, as her hot aggressive tongue stroked his and her hand grasped him and started pumping.
“No more, Lucky.” He backed her against the cool marble wall of the shower and brought her leg up so it wrapped around his hip. The heat from her pussy enveloped his cock as he probed at the saturated folds. “Get ready because there’ll be little mercy.” Her eyes fluttered closed as he pushed the swollen head inside her, her muscles clamping around him, pulling him inside. “You feel perfect.”
She answered by tightening her leg around his waist and he slid in a little further, the need to bury himself overwhelming. Groaning, he plunged as deeply as she’d take him, and held himself still.
He gritted his teeth and tried to ignore the come boiling in his balls because he didn’t want it to end quite yet. Her inner muscles quivered around him, and he gave up the battle. He pulled out to the tip of his cock and then slammed back inside, swallowing her scream of pleasure with his mouth as he swelled inside and shot thick streams of semen deep inside her.
Part of him hated that she was on birth control, because his need to mate and show his dominance by planting his seed inside her was all he could think of as he thrust again and again.
His heart thrummed against his chest as he held tightly, coming down from the best orgasm of his life. When he finally felt himself return to his body, he realized she hadn’t come. “I’m sorry,” he said as he pulled out slowly and watched the combined fluids of their bodies drip on the shower floor. “I’ll fix it.”
“Sam, there’s nothing to fix. A woman doesn’t come every time during intercourse.”
“Not my woman.” He pumped some soap into his hands and gently cleaned between her thighs. “You didn’t get there and I’m going to take care of that.”
“I don’t have to get there, Sam, it’s not a personal challenge to your manhood if I don’t.”
“I like to get the job done right.” He rinsed away the soap and turned her around, so she was facing the wall. Trailing his fingers down her spine, he watched goosebumps raise against her skin as he moved his fingers against the puckered star of her anus before dipping into the drenched folds of her pussy.
Her arms were braced against the wall and her ass was presented to him perfectly as he teased and tormented her. She writhed against him and he grinned. “Do you know how beautiful you are spread open like this? I’m getting hard again, Lucky.”
Shaking her head, she whimpered as his fingers parted her folds and pushed inside. Her body took him greedily and pushed back against his fingers, fucking them in a rhythm that had her moaning.
He brought his other hand up and circled around her rear entrance, dipping down to her pussy and gathering juices and then bringing them back up to lubricate the tiny hole. “Someday, I’m going to take you here, Lucky.” Sinking his finger inside slowly, he stretched her slightly. Moving his fingers in tandem, her legs soon began to quiver from the strain of pleasure. “When I take you back here and sink all the way up to my balls, you’ll love it. Your pussy is soaking my fingers, wanting what I can give you.”
“Yes,” she shouted as her body moved back and forth.
Sliding his fingers out of her pussy, he replaced them with his cock. He was as hard as he was the first time and, as he pushed inside, he concentrated on giving her the release she craved. He cupped her breast and plucked at her nipples as his thrusts grew deeper and harder.
“Sam, please.”
He kept his thrusts steady as he moved his finger to her ass, letting it slide in and out. Her body gripped him and the ripples of her inner walls pulsed against his cock. “That’s it, Lucky, let go and drench me in your honey.”
His words sent her over the edge and her shouts of pleasure bounced against the shower walls as her orgasm swept through her. Her pussy clenched around him and her ass tightened on his finger as wave after wave rippled through her. No longer able to hold back, he gripped her hips and fucked her hard before his come coated her insides.
Catching his hand against the wall above her head, he hunched over her, praying to God he wouldn’t embarrass himself by collapsing to the floor.
When she turned her face, he saw a smile lifting the corner of her mouth. “Oh, Sammy, you sure know how to get the job done.”
He felt laughter spill out of his chest as he slipped out with a groan and then cleaned them both up. He turned off the water and then pulled her out of the shower. He handed her a towel and then took one and grinned like an idiot as they dried off. “I’m the most blessed man in all the world.”
Standing on her tiptoes, she pulled him down for a kiss. When their mouths touched, he felt the lock snip open in his heart and knew she would always belong there.
“I think we’re both blessed.” She grabbed a robe and wrapped herself in it and then handed him one, giving him a smile that made him happier than he’d ever been.