No problem at all. I’ll be there in about twenty minutes.
See you then.
For whatever reason, my brain quieted after Tony’s text. I gave up trying to understand it. The hallway was empty when I got to my floor, not surprising for the time of night. When I got to my apartment, I noticed a single daffodil lying on the floor in front of my door. I looked up and down the hallway to see if there was a basket of flowers in front of someone else’s door. Maybe the delivery person dropped one. But there was nothing. I picked it up and brought it into my apartment, tossing it on the kitchen counter before heading into my bedroom.
Almost exactly twenty minutes later, there was a buzz on my intercom. I pressed the button to speak to Tony. “Hey, I’ll buzz you in.” I pressed the button that allowed him to open the inner door, which let him get to the elevators. A few minutes later, there was a knock on my apartment door. I grinned as I hurried to let Tony in. “Hey, Tony. It’s good to see you.”
He returned my smile, kissed my cheek, then held up a bottle of red wine. “I brought this. I thought it would be nice to chill a bit and let you relax from your day.”
Warmth filled my chest. “Thanks. That was really nice of you.” I pointed to the small kitchen area. “Just put it on the counter. I’ll dig out a bottle opener in a sec.”
He put the bottle down and picked up the flower from the counter. “One of the kids give you this?” he asked.
I shook my head. “I found it in the hallway outside my apartment. I figured someone dropped it. Probably a delivery person.”
“Huh.” He put it back down. “A strange thing to lose.”
I shrugged. “It’s New York. When aren’t things strange?”
Tony laughed. “Truth.”
I pulled the bottle opener from the back of a drawer and opened the wine. “Let’s go watch Netflix and chill.”
He slid his arm around my waist. “You have the best ideas.”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
TONY
It was really hard not to slide closer to Greg while we were watching the movie. He’d picked one of the Avengers movies, though I couldn’t say which one. Some space alien sent giant caterpillar-looking things to destroy Earth. Don’t judge me. I work with real-life Avengers.
We finished off the bottle of wine and some expensive cheese Greg had in his fridge. After the movie was over, I helped Greg clean up. After he finished loading the dishwasher, he leaned against the counter and asked, “Is it okay for you to tell me how Cody’s mom was killed? I don’t want to slip and say the wrong thing in front of Cody.”
“Sure, I can tell you,” I replied. “But Cody doesn’t know how his mom died. Zach only told him she got hurt.” I clenched my jaw. “An ex-boyfriend of hers got pissed that she wouldn’t give him a second chance after he was abusive to her, so he ran her down with his car.”
Greg sucked in a breath. “Jesus Christ. Is he in jail?”
I nodded. “He’s being held in Florida until he can be extradited to New Jersey.”
His eyes widened. “Wait. Was that the guy your team was going after in Ft Lauderdale?”
“Yep,” I replied. “They caught him today. The team is flying home tomorrow.”
“Oh wow. Do they do that often? Go out of state for missions?”
“That team goes out of state and out of the country,” I replied. “I have other people who work strictly locally. Some people only do events. Some people handle personal security. I’m about to hire a bunch more people to do long-term personal security.”
Greg’s lips curved up in a smile. “It sounds like you’re a busy man. Maybe I can take your mind off work for a while.”
I stepped forward until I had him caged between my arms. “What did you have in mind?”
His hands reached for the button of my jeans. “I can suck your dick until you spill down my throat.”
Jesus, the mouth on this man. My cock went rock hard in an instant. “I like that idea.” I hooked my finger around one of his belt loops. “But how about if I go first? I want to taste you.”
He swallowed hard. “That works for me.”
I went to my knees and made quick work of unbuttoning and unzipping his pants. His hard cock was making an obscene bulge in his tight red briefs. I pulled them down, tucking them under his balls, and then took him to the back of my throat in one swallow. Greg cried out with pleasure and braced himself against the counter.
