“If we don’t stop now, I won’t be able to hold back any longer, Sam. Much as I’d love to haul you upstairs and strip you down and play with this body all night long, Zach’s guy is going to interrupt us any minute. I gotta tell you, I can’t have any interruptions when I get you naked. I need time to learn every inch of your body, to make you scream and shake and come ‘til you think you might black out. Then, I need to bury myself to the hilt in you and not come up for days, Sam.”
She stopped breathing. No one had ever talked to her that way. He spoke as though he needed her like he needed food or water, and that was a turn on, in itself.
She suspected dirty talk also turned her on and couldn’t wait for more of that. More of him. She whimpered her need, and he let out a raspy huff of laughter, only for the sound of the doorbell to cut it off.
Logan lowered his forehead to hers. “I’ll be back soon. I want to pick up some cameras to set up in case we get any visitors, and a few more weapons. I only have my Glock with me. I promise, as soon as I get us set up to take care of you here, I’m gonna make good on all those promises.”
Sam nodded as Logan’s cell phone buzzed.
“Yeah?” Logan answered while taking the stairs two at a time to answer the door.
“Yup. Six three, dark hair, scar over his eye. Got it. Talk to you tomorrow.”
Sam heard the door open and voices as Logan and another man made their way up the stairs.
The other man was as tall as Logan, but leaner. He looked to be in top shape, though, and had the same look Logan had, as though he were utterly confident in his ability to take on any threat. A jagged scar marked one of his eyebrows, but it added to his edgy look rather than detracting from it.
“Sam, this is Jeff Carson. He works for Zach. He’s going to be outside tonight and then one of the other guys will take over in the morning.”
Sam reached her hand out and shook Jeff’s outstretched one.
“Ma’am,” Jeff said with a nod and what Sam assumed he thought was a smile. It wasn’t. But she didn’t get a creepy vibe from him. Just the feeling that he was someone used to working and not socializing. She was fine with that.
Logan turned to Jeff. “I’m going to run over to my place. It’s only a few minutes away so I’ll be back in a half hour, forty-five minutes, tops.”
Jeff nodded.
“Sam, would you like Jeff to wait in here with you or watch from outside?” Logan asked.
Sam didn’t feel overly anxious about things yet. She had a feeling this was still related to Sutton Capital and someone wanting intel on her work. She didn’t think whoever this was would be breaking down her door to harm her.
She had panic alarms in three places in her town house. She would feel perfectly safe with Jeff parked outside her town house until Logan returned. Since he was a total stranger to her, she liked the idea of him being outside better.
“I think outside is fine. I’ll be okay in here until you get back. I’ll probably just get in bed and read.” She smiled cheekily at Logan and saw the sharpness in his eyes as his glance hit her. Her mention of bed had had the desired effect.
“Fine,” Jeff said, with a nod.
Logan went to the desk in the corner of Sam’s living room and picked up the extra receiving unit for the panic alarms Zach had given her and tossed it to Jeff.
“She’s got a panic alarm on each floor. Hooked into police and to me.”
Jeff nodded and turned silently toward the stairs that led back downstairs.
Logan spun Sam’s head into a tizzy with one of his craze-inducing kisses before walking out the door with her promise to lock up and set the alarm behind him.
Chapter 13
Yoshi listened as one of the men he’d hired to watch Samantha Page delivered news he didn’t want to hear. “I think we’ve been made. There’ve been some intermittent outages on the bugs. Some of it could be normal interference. No bug is foolproof, but I’m fairly sure Stone just spotted us. He looks like he’s rallying more protection for her. They’ve got a man outside her house. Stone just left, but if you’re gonna want us to act, now is probably the best time.”
“Hold on,” Yoshi said, then held the phone away from his mouth and relayed the information he’d just been given to Diya.
Diya’s expression turned cold. The faces of her mother and father and her two angel brothers flashed through her mind’s eye and she all but whimpered at the pain of their loss. She’d give anything to be wrapped in the love of her family again. Anything.
“Take her out.”
Yoshi brought the phone back to his ear, prepared to give instructions before Diya interrupted.
“Wait. Strike that. Tell them to bring her to me. Let’s go ahead and draw this out. Let Logan Stone suffer for a while.” She felt a slight, if only temporary, ease in her chest. Yes, bringing him pain would alleviate some of her own.
Yoshi gave the instructions to the man on the other end of the line, smiling as he told the man not to be careful with her. He didn’t care what condition Samantha Page was in when they got her, as long as she was alive enough to let them film her for a few days.
Yoshi was happy with Diya’s plan to let Stone suffer watching videos of Samantha as they tortured and killed her.
Diya laughed when she heard him. Yoshi had a lot stronger taste for revenge than she’d given him credit for when they set out on this journey. It turned out, he wanted payback for her family’s slaughter almost as much as she did.
Sam set the alarm after Logan left and went up to her bathroom on the third floor to take a hot shower. She figured she would change into the silk pajamas that she’d bought recently, just in case she ended up spending the night with Logan.
She’d thought about getting something skimpy and sexy, but had opted for a soft ivory-colored pants and top set instead. It was more her style, with the light scalloped edging and buttons down the front. It was sexy without being over-the-top, in-your-face slutty.
Although, now that she thought about it, being slutty for Logan had its appeal. She grinned as she reached into the shower and started the water running. Maybe she’d buy something with a little more lace for next time. He made her feel sexy and alluring.
She didn’t feel big and clumsy and awkward with him. Hell, he made her forget her size. She didn’t feel like a woman who was almost as tall as he was when she was around him. She felt downright dainty, and that was saying a hell of a lot.
Sam undid the buttons and slid her shirt off her arms and down her body, then removed her bra, letting her hands trail over her nipples as she did. Logan’s mouth had felt incredible on her breasts earlier. When she slid her panties off, she saw they were damp from the effects of Logan’s caresses, and she couldn’t wait to finally make it to bed with him. To see if it would be as explosive as she thought things would be with him.
Sam pulled open the shower door and let the water run over her hand to test the heat. She hated getting into the shower before the water was good and hot. She loved being warm.
She’d earned more money than she could have imagined on her game. Sam planned to build her own house from start to finish and she knew one thing for sure. Her master bathroom would have a minimum of two shower heads and heated tile flooring throughout to keep her toes warm. Maybe a heated towel rack and toilet as well. Why not go all out?