“Fine, let’s go.”
I nodded and followed him to the elevators, acting totally cool as I exited the elevator and headed for my car. Now I just had to find a way to slip away from this guy. As we approached my car and I unlocked it, a call came in and he answered it. He was distracted, even turned away from me as he started talking. By what I could hear on my end, I was guessing it was his wife. I slipped inside and locked the doors, then started the engine. He spun around, pulling his gun, but I was already peeling out of the parking spot. I saw him standing behind me, but he did nothing and then I realized why. There was no way for me to get past the gate. I almost slowed down, but then I saw a car in front of me, most likely his wife’s car, and I gunned the engine. They were just opening the gate for her. I rammed her from behind, pushing her through the gate, panicking as I looked in the rearview mirror and saw Knight chasing me down with his gun out. Kate’s car surged forward and I spun around her, taking the chance that he wouldn’t fire at me when his wife was so close. When I looked in the rearview mirror, he was rushing to his wife’s side and completely ignoring me.
I decided to stick around town. My other option was to head to Pittsburgh, which I really didn’t want to do. Going back to the city would draw too much attention to myself. But I couldn’t very well just drive around town when I had just escaped from Reed Security. I drove around the country, just about five miles outside the city limits, and found a cluster of trees where I could ditch my car. I gathered everything from my car, even wiped down the inside to make sure I wasn’t leaving anything behind that could be traced to me. I stuffed the wipes in my bag and slung it over my shoulder to start the trek back to town. I would be lying if I said that walking alone in the country didn’t scare the piss out of me. I wasn’t a country girl by any means, so this was all foreign territory to me.
I started walking toward town, my boots way more comfortable than the shit I had to wear for the bureau. As I walked, I found myself smiling at current circumstances. I had gone from a law abiding citizen, defender of the constitution of the United States, to a criminal that broke into houses and stole data. Then I fled from a prominent security company and was now walking down a dark road all alone, with nothing to my name but the duffel over my shoulder. I felt kickass and for the first time in my life, I wasn’t really worried about a thing, other than digging into the senator and finding out what he was up to. If I couldn’t find justice at my job, I was sure as hell going to branch out on my own and figure it out.
I heard gravel crunching and light shone brightly behind me. I turned, putting my hand up to shield my eyes and moved further to the side of the road. I wasn’t about to take a ride from anyone. I had heard too many stories about women that accepted help from a stranger, only to never be seen or heard from again. Not that I was too worried about it. I had a few guns on me after all. The truck pulled to a stop beside me and the window rolled down, but I kept walking.
“Do you need help?”
“Not at all.”
“Are you lost?” the man asked.
“Nope,” I said with confidence. I had no clue where I was going, but I wasn’t worried. I could handle myself.
“Hey, ma’am-”
I spun, pulling my gun out and pointing it right at the man. He was handsome with dark hair that was slightly longer, giving him kind of a rogue-ish appeal that I found charming. But then Parker flickered through my mind, erasing any attraction I might have felt for this man.
“Do you have a hearing problem?” I asked.
The man held up his hand, his wedding band flickering in the moonlight. “Geez, lady, I was just checking to see if you needed help.”
“If I needed help, I would have said so the first time you asked.”
“Point taken.”
He rolled up his window and took off down the road, leaving me in his dust. I coughed, waving the dust from the gravel away from my face. I continued on my way, now only thinking about one thing, Parker. He was definitely built. I would know, I had felt his arm muscles as they wrapped around me when I was helping him to the car. And when I slipped my arm around his back, the way his back flexed under my fingers sent tingles down my spine.
I closed my eyes as I continued down the road and his handsome face flashed through my mind. He wore his hair super short, which I normally didn’t like. I wanted to run my fingers through a man’s hair when I fucked him, but on Parker, it was a good look. I could still see those dark brown eyes as he broke down my door. They trailed over my body like he was memorizing every inch of me. It made me wet just imagining him doing it again.
I shivered and pulled my jacket tighter around
