“No. Alessio is just about killing himself trying to work out the IP addresses and where the messages are being bounced from, but so far nothing.”
I was sure that pissed Alessio off to no end. But he’d work it out—he always did. Plus, I had my own problems to deal with.
One in particular, who was now leaning across the table and stealing a bit of food off his date’s plate.
Fuck my life.“Well, let me know if anything changes.”
“Is that your way of saying goodbye?”
“It is.”
“Okay, okay. Oh, and Shep?”
“Hmm?”
“Try to stay dry.”
“Fuck off.”
He chuckled. “Bye to you too.”
21
THEO
ICOULDN’T SEE Shep, but I knew he was watching. I could feel his eyes on me from wherever he hid in the shadows, though every time I’d casually scanned around us, I couldn’t find him.
It was amazing how someone as well known as Shep could so easily disappear when he wanted to. I guessed the same could be said for me, but considering I wasn’t usually the one being babysat, this was new territory. If it was anyone else, I’d be fucking livid. But having Shep watch me, nowthatwas something I could get behind.
Or rather, someone.
Because make no mistake—I’d let him take control during our encounters so far, but giving Shep a taste of his own medicine was in my plans. There was nothing I wanted more than to have him on his knees for me, bent over for me, any way I could have him, andthatwas why I was singularly focused on driving him crazy in the meantime.
I leaned toward Yuki holding his fork out to me, speared with a delicious black tiger shrimp. I held his eyes as I wrapped my mouth around the tines and slid it off with my teeth.
Wherever Shep was watching, he wasn’t enjoying this scene half as much as I was.
“Mmm.” I closed my eyes, savoring the flavor, and when I opened them again, Yuki’s attention was on my mouth. The man was attractive, I couldn’t deny that. If my cock wasn’t so focused on getting inside Shep, I would definitely be taking Yuki back to my presidential suite. From the way he was looking at me, I could tell he assumed that was to be the eventual outcome tonight. It almost made me feel guilty about using him as a prop…almost.
My phone vibrated in my pocket for the first time since we’d arrived.
“My apologies, I need to take this,” I said, and pulled it out. When I saw the message and who it was from, it was all I could do not to grin.
SHEP:
Tell him to back off.
A few seconds later, another one came through.
SHEP:
He looks two seconds away from climbing into your lap.
Jealous?
I typed back.
SHEP:
