Love don't live here anymore

Chapter 14:

'So all I have to do is spend the next forty eight hours in your company and you promise to walk away?' she verified.

'Try to keep an open mind Samantha!' he replied with a trace of irritation.

She lowered her head uncomfortably.

Can't he see, she was trying to protect him? To keep him alive!  She could do that if he stayed away from her. Her attraction to him did not matter.  Her body could live without the pleasures he filled her with.  If it meant she could ensure he lived a long and fulfilled life, but he was stubbornly ignoring the danger to his life.

She would need to amend her plans for the next two days. Firstly she had to call her Director and request two days leave. She was certain he was going to fall off his chair. Every twelve months he had to instruct her to go on leave. And now snap bang in the middle of an investigation, she was wanting leave.

And then she had to call "her manager" where she was a waitress and request additional leave. She was sure he was going to bite her head of. And what about her contact at the school that she supplied?

Does Blake have an inkling of an idea what his interruption entailed?

'Okay,' she inhaled deeply, 'we have a deal.'

'Yes!' he hoisted her up in his arms and swung her around.

She barely had a second's notice to quickly wrap her arms around his neck, to maintain her balance.

'You have to seal the deal with a kiss,' he demanded.

'Do I?' she teased innocently.

But he did not wait for her acquiescence, instead reached up and covered her mouth with his.

And of course the moon was to blame for her lips parting and her arms wrapping more tightly around his neck, as she slid down, but continued to respond to his demanding kiss.

'Check out of your hotel and come stay at my apartment,' he demanded huskily.

'Okay.' She responded, her body already weak and in dire need of his loving.

She would have had to check out, seeing that for the next forty eight hours she was not on official business to warrant incurring expenses with state funds.

'I'll need to get my gear from the hotel,' she reluctantly stepped back to inform him.

'Shall we go?' he draped his arm around her waist, impatient to begin his two day feast.

'Why don't I drop you off where your bike is, and meet you at your place?' she suggested.

'No.'

'What do you mean no? It won't take me long to pack and check out.' She traveled light and was trained to travel at very short notice.

'Okay fine,' he sighed, 'first we pack and check you out, and then we collect my bike, and I ride behind you to my place,' he instructed.

'What about the room you're using at the hotel?'

'I have an assistant here, I'll have him take care of it.'

Blake was amazed at the speed at which she was packed and ready to check out.

'I told you I won't be long,' she smiled.

'I'm impressed,' he murmured.

Blake drove back to Jordan's office, and Samantha got behind the wheel of her vehicle as Blake hopped onto his bike.

The minute he switched on the engine, she hit the accelerator pedal. So he wanted to follow her, did he? She would set the pace. With the pedal pushed to the floorboard, she spun out of the dockyard.