Love at First Gunshot ?

The Party.

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I adjusted myself as the door was opened, "Don't scratch her." Anderson says to the valet boy, he nods nervously and takes the keys. He holds his arm open for me, I take it and smile at him.
"So the plan is to introduce you to the wife when I make myself acquainted too Kasnova, then we get closer with them through the night." He says to me, stopping me in the doorway, he takes off my jacket. He slides his off and gives them both to the man, he turns back to me.

I smile at him, "You ready?" I ask him softly. He smiles back and clears his throat, "As Ill ever be." He says back, he leans close and kisses my lips softly, I adjust his bow tie. I take his arm and he leads me through the crowd to a small table, a waiter approaches and asks for our order.

We begin to drink when applause is starting, we join along and stand. We see Kasnova and his wife join together on stage, they smile at the crowd. "Thank you, thank you! Welcome to the Ball of the Year! We are so glad you could join us! Now we ask all the married couples join us on the dance floor to get this started off right!" He says ghostly in the microphone.

The orchestra begins, Anderson leans forward, extending his hand out. "Come on there's eyes on us." He says low to me, I nod taking his a hand. He leads me to the side of the dance floor, We bow to each other. I smile, seeing him struggle, "Just follow my lead," he nods and wraps his arm tighter around my waist. "Why so tight?" I ask him softly, "you're the most stared at girl right now, I need them to know who you belong too." He says back, giving me a soft smile, he dips me. I start to feel nervous, then we hear applause, he leads me back to the table.

"Thank you for helping me, I certainly suck at dancing." He says to me, giving me a soft smile. "It's not a problem," I say before I clear my throat. "Well you certainly know how to turn heads mademoiselle...Kasnova Cooper." He says while taking my hand and kissing it, then he turns to Anderson and shakes his hand. "Steve Stark. The man who's saving my brother from prison!" He gives him a long pat on the back.

"I would like to speak with you in my office if that alright, I hope your lovely wife doesn't mind it." He says casting a look over me, I smile and push him gently to Kasnova. "Ill be fine love, I'll be right here waiting," I say and he gives me a fake smile while kissing me softly.

*Andersons POV*
I walk behind him on the stairs, glancing back at her. I hated leaving another agent alone but my eyes caught a glimpse of my team. I nodded to them and followed suit.

He leads me to a large room, dedicated to books, with a nice big desk, and a leather chair. "So here's this, that I'd like for you to see how my brother was framed." He slides me the file, and turns around to his drinks. "Scotch?" He asks cutting the silence, "Neat" I reply. I look through the file, and bring myself to place a bug underneath his desk. He turns and hands me the drink, "So what do you think? Do you think it will help?" He asks while sitting on the edge of the desk, "I certainly do, you know you could've just sent this too me." I say as I push the drink down all the way, then I stand adjusting myself.

"I like to do my business in person, and you seem like a respected man, so I knew I needed to meet you." He says with a smile, I fake a smile back, "Well if you'll excuse me, I do have a party to host." I nod and follow him out slowly, placing another bug on his bookshelf. I descend downstairs and find her at the table.

"So how was it honey?" She asks softly, the tone that everso kills me. I give her a small smile, "Oh you know business as usual," I say kissing her cheek. A woman wrapped in a silver dress brings herself over to the table, she extends her hand. "Rose, Rose Cooper, pleasure to meet you Stark," She smiles at me. I couldn't lie she was breathtaking, so I directed my attention to Young.

"Yes this is Rose, Kasnovas wonderful wife." She says looking up at me, as I smile down at her. "It's a pleasure to meet you ma'am," I say to her, "Business is taken of, Sì?" She asks. I nod to her and let the ladies converse, after a while. She turns to me, "I am getting tired love, let's go home." She says to me, we say our goodbyes, and walk out hand an hand.

We receive our keys, and get in. "So what happened?" She asks as we pull out of the driveway. I let out a sigh, knowing what was going to happen. "I only received a file about his brother so maybe if we get in closer then it'll help, but two bugs are in his office so our teams can listen in as well." She smiles and smacks my shoulder, "That's what I'm talking about." I look over and all I see is thigh. Something about her in something other than work clothes gets me hot. I turn and smile to her, "Wow I think that was the first time you were happy I did something."

She grimaced at me and goes silent, "Could you go two minutes without bringing up our past, and to think we were slowly making progress!" She exclaims. There it is, the anger I felt towards her, I take a deep breath. "We can't just SLOWLY move over something like this and you know it." I yell back at her, pulling into our driveway, "You know what! Forget it, forget I was EVER thinking about catching feelings for someone like YOU." She says to me, our faces inches apart, she huffs grabbing her heels. Exiting the car, and marching up to the house.
I follow behind, and lock the doors behind me. I hear her say something under her breath, I began to feel guilty, I was making her this way cause I couldn't let the past go. Maybe I could? I guess I could try. I go upstairs to the shower running, I decided to get undress and wait for her. The shower stops, and I hear the sink running, She opens the door. She rolls her eyes at me, "Ready for bed sweetheart?" She says to me with a certain lace of  poison in her voice.
"Yes but come here," I pat my leg. She doesn't take it and sits next to me, I sigh and pull her closer. I lean down and push the hair from around her ear. "I am sorry for doing this and making the case a lot harder on you. Please forgive me. I want to make things right with you." She leans to my ear, "You'll have to do more than that to get my forgiveness..babe."
She pushes me off of her and kisses me sternly, and goes to her side of the bed, while I stay put.
I was going to make things right with her, because this last month has been nothing but torture to not kiss her, to do anything to her.
With thoughts crossing my mind, I lean back into the bed and slowly fall asleep.