Page 294 of Allegiance

“I won’t know until the meet-up.”

“Let me call you back. I need coffee and to think,” she said.

Remington held up his phone. He’d typed something out for her to say to the hooker.

“Okay, but if you snooze, you lose. I’m going to offer it up in the next hour to the next girl. You know Cruz has bitches all over.”

“Yeah, let me get coffee. I’ll call you back.”

With that, she hung up.

“Good play,” he said.

She tucked her phone away.

“Well, if anything, Remington, I’m good at what I do. I do have a question.”

He waited, not sure what she was going to ask him. At this point, it was anyone’s game.

“You didn’t accept my invite. Why?” she asked. “I waited to see if you’d be brave enough to join me.”

God.

His heart raced.

She felt so good against him when he’d been trying to abduct her, and now, she smelled like heaven. He was so damn aware of her in proximity to his body.

It’s like his whole being knew her.

“You could at least answer that,” she said. “I was scared. I thought I was dead when you grabbed me. We both know you can break into a place. Why not when I wanted you to?”

He moved closer.

Immediately, she backed up because he was imposing in the light. In the shadows of the alley, her heart began racing.

He pressed her to the wall.

“I wanted to, Calyx. God. I really wanted to. You make me insane,” he admitted, taking her hand and placing it over his rock-hard erection.

She got wet just touching him.

If this game of cat and mouse didn’t end soon, she was going to lose her mind.

“Then why not?” she asked. “We’re both adults,” she said, gripping his erection in her hand through his pants, and getting a moan to break free.

It was so damn erotic.

Finally, the words found a way out.

“My wife.”

Her heart skipped.

“Is it because I look like her?” she asked, his mouth so close to hers as he leaned over her trapped body.

He closed his eyes and when he did, he saw her.

He saw the mistakes he made, and the adultery he committed while putting his career first.