The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 23
“Hi,” Isabella touched his chest.
“Hi, can I come in?” Cam eyed her curiously as she subconsciously blocked his entrance.
“Yes,” she stepped backwards as she realized she barred the entrance and led him inside. Casper, at the top of the stairs let out one annoyed bark and then trotted down the stairs to plunk on the bottom step to eye Cam critically. “He’s irritated you’re disrupting his sleep.”
e so beautiful.”
, “I have no make-up on, I’m in a ratty old NYU
. Your eyes are sparkling and I’m very much aware of what is under the shirt.” He smiled wickedly, “and your hair makes me want to bunch it up in my fists.”
ght with you.”
ther,” she whispered as she curved her cheek into his palm.
rect and to the point,” she made a face.
me?”
oment though is to hold you while we sleep.” He motioned to the stairs, “let’s go.”
d and looked at Casper. “Um, Casper sleeps in the bed with me. He’s never slept anywhe
can a tiny dog take?”
followed him down the hall.
n her bedroom, other than when her brothers and dad had moved the furniture in here and set up
?”
an’t walk into her room without tripping over her entir
ill had to get up, put my laptop away and in the drawer away from view. I abhor untidiness.”
wnstairs tidy but it’s all you.”
y cleanliness habits?”
she pulled her sheets back. “I’m glad to see you have a king-sized bed and not a little double.”
for my legs just so I can sleep on the edge while my eight-pound dog takes up three quarters of it.”
“He has his own access ramp?”
door he can access in the back with his special collar, so he doesn’t pee in the house. I can’t have him trying to get to the door by jumping.”
undings, even when sleeping.”
es he sleep?”
ted to the pillow on the far side. She climbed on the bed and adjusted Casper’s pillow, so it was nestled on the bed but clos
g them on the chair near the desk. “Are they okay here?”
sibilities aren’t so tightly wound a few clothes will make me crazy.” She noted he was completely naked and unashamed in her
beside her.
“this is huge for me.”
ant me to go?”
tmares. With the crap with Evgeni and the fight with the mugger tonight, my emotions are a bit off, which is why Casper still hasn’t gotten on his pillow. He’s waiting for me to settle.”
ere something
ou’re in my space and this is new, well, if something happens, I just want you to know you don’t need to do anything. Casper knows how to wake me, c
ealized she was telling him she needed space if she woke up scre
ds tucked under her cheek as she watched him settle into her pillow. He rolled to his side and looked at her,
sorry for la
ing to keep me safe.”
he’s become. Against every ounce of my better judgement, I’m going to let you take control but I’m begging you to keep me in the loop.”
’ll try to cut you some slack. I know you deal with dangerous situations all day every day and so you’re always looking at the dark side of life. Clara does too and she trusts me and my judgement Cam. I need you to do the same. Don’t underestimate us because we’re women.”
e slid his hand under her and pulled her closer and kissed the top of her head as she rested her head on his shoulder. “It’s not because you’re a woman Isabella. I’ve been doing security work since I was twenty-two. I’ve been with people who have had assassination attempts made on them. All of them have a common denominator and it’s one crazy bastard who thinks they’re owed something, and Andropov is an entitled son of a bitch.”
e is. I also know he is not the same man I dated three years a
in long sweeping motions. Cam looked over in amazement as Casper reached across his pillow to the nightstand and used his paws to tap the base of the lamp and s
ofa.”
genius.”
if happy with the compliment, Casper let out a big sigh.
”
t, Cam.”
exactly how long she’d be
phone from him. She answered it, “Hey Lacey, are you okay?”
one, are you?”
her hair off her face as if they were the cobwebs clouding her brain. “No.”
I call it in, I’m wondering if you could verify my work.”
nformation. “Absolutely I can. I’m just going to go log into my computer. I have it here in my bedroom.”
y.” She pulled her glasses and laptop from the locked desk drawer and pulled it to her lap, facing Cam so he couldn’t see anything on her screen while she sat in the chair.
nd send me the information you want me to review.”
several minutes, being certain to keep her face neutral and impassive. “Lacey, you were absolutely correct with your analysis of the situation.” Lacey had finally cracked the code to a trafficking operation in South America they had been chasing for weeks. With this breakthrough, it was only a matter of hours before Bell
un.”
re right to get the second opinion. Call it i
d from where he was propped against the pillows eyeing her critically.
ys but often en
s a relatively new hire trying to prove herself. Sometimes Clara gives her special projects. She’s good at what she does but she second-guesses herself frequently. She’s terrified of getting Clara out of bed needlessly. I mean, we all are, but the new recruits doubly so.”
why call you?”
of the time.”
ideon.”
He chuckled and pulled her
e probably did was check to see if the car was still there.”
echniques were in order. Mutually beneficial ones.
ix. Seems kind of pointless for us to go back to sleep for,” she checked her watch, “forty-five minutes. I wonder what we could do to fill in the time?”
an intricate pattern on his chest.
g. We haven’t really properly made up.”
ing out to stroke his n****e.
ly down his hard chest towards his waist hidden under her sheets.
simply sayin
pped around him with a firm grip. “You are waking the beast.”
’ll let me be in control for once.”
further down the sheets to find the parts of him covered by blankets, her lips warm and wet against his torso and abdomen.
m from where she was with blankets pulled half over her head.
I do.”
mind as Isabella thoroughly distracted him from every coherent idea in his brain. It was a hell of a workout.