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"Seeot your co "You two ," Aidan adhed ruefully "Isn’t that always the case with us? All in control and on the ready for whatever our job brings But when it comes to our personal lives and the wo"

"Fuck you I don’t need rescuing"

Mitch laughed

Aidan got out and shut the door

Lily rose to her feet and stared at hile lick He dropped his pack, took the bag she was holding and set it on top of his pack, and then he backed her to the front door and kissed her

Lily ainst his mouth, hot and sweet, and he curled his hand around the back of her neck and took what he’d been thinking of for four-plus straight days He kissed her until they both ran out of air and then as he pulled back, he tugged her lower lip between his teeth for a beat, unable to let go

She let out another soft sound of arousal in her throat and if he hadn’t already been hard at just the sight of her, and then the taste, that would have done it

So of course his phone went off with the tone of a five-alarm fire "What the--" He pulled his phone fro to kill Mitch for constantly changing the ringtones on ood tiood time to call yourLily flush to the door, Aidan thunked his head to the wood a few times next to hers "I’m alive and well," he said, "and you know it because you called my captain--twice--and he told you so And, by the way, he’s not real thrilled that you stole his contact info from my phone He wants you to lose his nu me? I used to babysit that man!" Char complained "He wasn’t potty trained until he was five He sucked his thurade He can answer my damn calls--he owes me"

"Mom"

"Okay, whatever, I’ll ‘lose’ his nuet to hear you’re alive from you"

"Duly noted," Aidan said

Lily snorted

Aidan aze Clearly she could hear every word and just as clearly she was enjoying this Her areat on her

"Thank you," his ht with Hudson"

Oh, Christ "Moht with Hudson," he said

"He told Gray about it So now you can tell me about it and also, while you’re at it, why you would lie to your rated his teeth Soo--"

"Fine Soon as you tell es lately?"

At her oddly innocent tone--and she was far from innocent--Aidan lifted his head and met Lily’s eyes

Her hands still fisted in his shirt, she bit her lower lip