Ghostwalker 06 - Predatory Game

waited until she stopped trembling, until the little aftershocks lessened to small ripples. “Whatever you’re feeling, multiply that by a thousand, angel face, and that’s what I’m feeling.” He turned off the jets. “The water’s getting cold and we’re going to turn into prunes.”
    “Well,” she said, wrapping her arms around his neck. “We didn’t solve the world’s problems, but right at this moment, I’m not caring so much.” Because, could he really believe she would betray him if he made love to her so thoroughly? She kissed his throat and nibbled on his chin.
    Jess kept his arms around her, holding her to him. “You solved my most immediate problems, baby.I’m thinking we need to get to bed. It’s almost morning and we’ve had a full night.”
    She lifted her head from where she was tracing the line of his heavy chest muscle with her tongue. “I don’t have a bed right now. I’m not sleeping in that room.”
    “Of course not. I was thinking you’d be sharing my bed.”
    There was a small silence and she pulled back to look at him. Very slowly she slipped off his lap to move to the side of the Jacuzzi. “I’ve never done that before. Sleep with someone. Doesn’t it make you feel vulnerable?”
    “I wouldn’t know. I had sex with people, I didn’t sleep with them.”
    “You thought you were going to marry Chaleen, didn’t you?”

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    He shrugged. “We were together, but I don’t know that I thought about the future all that much. Maybe at first I thought we’d be together, but after a while, I didn’t push it. And no, we didn’t sleep in the same bed. I always made some excuse and she was always happy to accept it.That should have told me something.”
    She raised her eyebrow at him. “You think?”
    He slapped water at her. “You can look smug when you want to.”
    “I know.” She really hated the idea of turning her back on him to get out of the Jacuzzi. She didn’t mind being naked, but she detested him looking at her back. For some reason, she couldn’t overcome the shame, as if somehow she’d allowed the torture.They’d made certain she couldn’t touch them, but maybe she could have scared them into believing she would have hunted them down. Now that she was older, that was exactly what she’d do, but back then, she’d been so frightened, and what they wanted from her had been repulsive. She’d loathed herself and her capabilities.
    She waited until Jess shifted to first the stair and then the platform before she climbed out and made certain his chair was locked so he could swing into it. She caught up Jess’s shirt and pulled it on.
    “Chaleen was here tonight.”
    He straightened up in his chair, frowning at her. “I know that, Ken told me, but how did you know?”
    She tried not to look or sound smug, since he’d just accused her of it. “I went out reconning tonight and saw her.” She studied her fingernails. “Blew right past both of your enhanced supersoldier GhostWalker guards.”
    “You got past Ken and Mari? Both of them?”
    “It was a walk in the park.”
    Jess studied her face. It was obvious she was telling the truth. “Ken sent Chaleen packing.”
    “If the CIA sent her here, Jess, it means they have suspicions that you’re more than a SEAL, and if they think that, who knows who else does?”
    “You think a foreign government has sent someone to spy on me?” He thrust with his hands, powering the chair through the house toward the bedroom.
    Saber followed at a more leisurely pace, holding the edges of his shirt together around her. “Don’t you think that’s a possibility?”
    “I suppose. But I think my radar would have gone off sooner.”
    Saber put on a burst of speed and caught up to him, catching at his chair to stop him. She waited until he’d turned to look at her. “So, Jess, what if something else is going on here, something not all about Whitney? Yes, I think he orchestrated our being together, but for what purpose? Just to grab me? Why go to all the trouble of the two of us living together for a year? If he provided the opening for the job and knew I’d take it—and who else could have known?—then why not grab me immediately before you called in the other GhostWalkers.Whitney had to have anticipated that move, right?”

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    “Yes. There isn’t a doubt in