“Well, I…that is…” Andrea didn’t have a ready comeback.
“I’m not saying marry the man or start planning out a future, but there’s no harm in enjoying each other’s company.”
“Don’t you come from a generation where promiscuity is frowned upon?”
“My generation, not yours, and we’re not talking about me only about you.What do you want, Andrea?”
She honestly didn’t know.
“Just enjoy his company.Be a friend.We can all use them from time to time.People were not meant to be solitary.”Again that word was being thrown at her.Did Michael and Maya practice this together?“Give him a chance.Give yourself a chance.”
“At what?”
“Living.”
Chapter 16
It had been two days since their date, and Jack hadn’t seen or heard one word from Andrea.He tried not taking to heart, but it was harder with every passing day he didn’t see her.He had even stopped by the bar but was told she wasn’t working.
Jack wasn’t convinced that was true, but he had no proof of the contrary, so he just accepted it and left.The next step was to try her at home.He hadn’t meant to push her further away by being so blunt about his feelings.And they had been his real feelings, not acting.He was attracted to her.Not just physically but mentally too.
She was funny and caring.Nothing at all like what he was prepared for.For a woman infiltrating bases and stealing intel, he’d expected a different kind of person.He should hate her for that.Loathe the very air she breathed, and yet he didn’t.Jack didn’t feel any hostility toward her at all.
Instead, he liked sparing with her verbally.He liked making her laugh, and damn it all, he wanted to kiss her more than his next breath.He was so fucked.
Jack groaned when he saw his phone ringing and the name come across the ID.
“Hi, Nick,” he answered in his usual cheerfulness, though he was feeling anything but cheerful at the moment.
“What’s your status?”Nick asked in a clipped tone.He wasn’t happy with him.
“I’m still working on getting close to her.”It wasn’t a lie; she was avoiding him again.
“What do you mean you’re working on it?”Nick spoke calmly.He didn’t have to yell.The iciness in his voice was enough to tell Jack he was walking on thin ice.
“She’s guarded, sir.It’s taking longer to break through her defenses.”
“I hired you because you can seduce any woman.I need you to get that information from her now.Or did I hire the wrong man for the job?”
Being pulled from this assignment was the last thing he wanted.He couldn’t take another man flirting with Andrea to get answers from her or if that failed, torture.“No, sir.I’ll get what you need.”He would double his efforts to get what he needed from her.Anything to appease Nick and get him to back off.The man was not a patient fellow.
“Good, because I’m tired of waiting, Jack.Get into the house and get some cameras in there.I want to see everything.Get a hold of her phone so we can see who she talks to and texts.I want to know everything about this woman.”
“Sir, I don’t—”
“Don’t tell me you’re getting soft, Jack.”
“No, sir.”Everyone was counting on him to get the mission completed.He wouldn’t fail them.
“Good.I don’t think I need to remind you what this woman has done to our country.Why WITSEC is protecting her is beyond me.She’s a criminal who belongs behind bars.The longer it takes her to confess, the more opportunity she has to plan another base attack.I won’t allow that to happen.Now get me some results, or I’ll find someone who will.”Nick hung up without waiting for Jack’s reply.
Jack didn’t like the idea of spying on Andrea like that.Invading her privacy.Funny, that idea hadn’t bothered him before.He’d done plenty of surveillance over the years, and it had never bothered him.It was only with Andrea that it did.
Jack was debating what to do next when there was a knock on his door.Who could that be?No one had come to his house since he’d moved in.Jack walked over, opened the door, and just stood there.
“I need you,” Andrea said looking like a drowned rat.Her hair was soaked and plastered around her face, and her shirt clung to her skin.Water droplets ran down her bare legs under her shorts to her sandals.Bright pink nail polish adorned her toes.Despite the humidity in the air, her nipples peeked through her shirt as if begging for his attention.“Did you not hear me?”
“Oh, I heard, but I can’t decide if you are a fantasy or this is real.It’s not every day a soaking wet woman knocks on my door, telling me she needs me.”He almost chuckled when he heard a soft growl coming from Andrea.
