Page 31 of Fox in Plain Sight

She huffed indignantly.

But she’d made her point, and knowing what he knew of her so far, Michelle posed no physical threat to him. He put the safety back on the gun and holstered it, but didn’t step back, keeping her trapped between his body and the tree trunk.

“Now that we’ve established the size of my dick, let’s continue. What else did your mysterious handler want you to do?”

“Just record the people who were going to meet here and then text him the file.”

“I don’t mean tonight. I mean in general. You were stalking me online, trying to prevent me from hacking into a server.”

Her mouth gaped open for a second, before she spoke. “So that was you.”

“Yeah, that was me. You’re pretty good, but you made a mistake.”

“How?”

“Doesn’t matter. I traced your IP address to the coffee shop.”

She nodded. “So it wasn’t a coincidence then. Too good to be true. You played me all this time. Got into my pants just so you could figure me out, that it?” She tossed him an angry glare.

“And trust me, I enjoyed it, and so did you.”

“Jerk! I would have never slept with you had I known—”

He pressed his body to hers, grinding his hips into her pelvis, snatching her wrists with both his hands, and pinning her against the tree.

“You don’t know anything, Michelle. Or do you know how I fought with my conscience whether to seduce you or not? Whether to take you to bed or not? How I agonized over it, knowing that it was wrong to touch you when I knew I was doing it to get information from you?”

He lowered his lids, only looking at her parted lips now.

“While all this time, I wanted you, wanted to be with you and make love to you as if we were normal people who are attracted to each other. Do you know that I wished that my suspicions were wrong? That you weren’t the hacker they’d sent to catch me?”

He released her wrists and shoved a hand through his hair, realizing something for the first time.

“Damn it, I slept with you because I wanted you. I could have gotten the information I needed by other means, too. By breaking into your place, or by mugging you. I didn’t need to get this close. But I wanted to.”

Just like he wanted her now beyond all reason.

Unable to stop himself, he sank his lips onto hers, taking her mouth in a fierce kiss.