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“You sleepy?” he whispered into her ear.
“Hmm…”
Derek chuckled softly and Sophie felt his lips brush her cheek. He settled back and started stroking her leg. Her right leg was cocked in front of her giving his fingers easy access between her thighs. They nudged her panties aside and began to stroke her cleft. In her sleepy haze, Sophie felt her core twitch and her womanly dew pooled, making his finger strokes slippery.
She heard him groan into her hair as he pulled her panties halfway down and penetrated her moist channel with his fingers, using his thumb to massage her clit.
“Derek—”
“Shh… let me do this, Angel.”
In between the throes of sleep and lust, Sophie surrendered to the pleasure. She was climbing, climbing higher and suddenly Derek had her on her back, her panties disappeared and his mouth hit her between her legs and he ate her hard until she came on his mouth. Her sex pulsed with the force of her orgasm, but Sophie was too relaxed to do anything and she just rode the wave of her ecstasy. Vaguely, she felt Derek ease her back to his side before whispering in her ear. “Sleep, baby.”
And she did. Deeply.
A phone was ringing.It was her phone. Stephen had programmed a silly ring tone on it. She was about to reach for it when Derek reached over her and beat her to it.
He answered. Even in Sophie’s sleep-addled state, that annoyed her.
“Lockwood…Parker slow down. Repeat what you said…God fucking damn it! When did this happen?”
Her heart thud wildly in her chest. She sat up and turned on the lamp. The light revealed Derek’s furious face, a muscle twitching in his jaw as he listened to Stephen. Bad news again. What could it be now? Had someone finally decided to blow up her lab?
“I’ll tell her. Find out what you can,” Derek said.
When he ended the call, Sophie realized that Derek was breathing hard.
“Derek?”
He cast her a look that made her skin crawl.
“What is it?” Sophie asked. Her question sounded like it did not want an answer.
Derek pulled her into his arms and lay her head on his shoulder. “Angel, we’ll fix this.”
“Derek you have to tell me,” Sophie whispered into his shirt.
“Someone broke into EndPoint Systems and stole the cores,” Derek said flatly. “They’re all gone.”
13
“This thingwith Silver Fire has just gone to shit. Call me, Marissa,” Viktor said tersely. Ending the call, he threw his phone on the dashboard and broodingly observed the Loudon County police and detectives combing through the crime scene. Technically, Viktor had no right to be here, but agencies rarely question his presence.
The four guards on duty were knocked out by tranquilizer darts. The cores were scheduled for destruction the next day and were in secure storage, but the perpetrators were able to threaten the custodian-on-duty to give up the weaponized zefinium.
Another vehicle arrived at the scene—FBI.Great, this just keeps getting better, thought Viktor.
His phone buzzed. Derek.
“I don’t have anything yet,” Viktor said shortly. When Derek had called him about the stolen cores, Viktor immediately dropped everything to head to Endpoint Systems. This was bad for several reasons. This happened on AGS watch. Viktor had a gut feeling the CIA expected this. He was uneasy when Marissa was suddenly shipped off to parts unknown after coming down hard on AGS to bring Sophie in for questioning. And Viktor’s gut was rarely wrong. His relationship with the CIA was tenuous at best and if they fucked him over this, the relationship would become non-existent. “The place is crawling with cops and feds.”
“Where is Marissa?” Derek demanded.
“I left her three voice messages, no call-back.”
“This is becoming a jurisdiction clusterfuck.”
“No shit.”
