around you.” I laughed. He only blushed some more. It surprised me
because he wasn’t that young and innocent, was he? Most men I knew around his
age, who had his looks, were major players. I’ve been around enough of them
who wanted to sleep with me on the casting couch one time or another to know.
“Then
what are you nervous about?” he asked.
“All
this shooting, the explosion, people getting hurt…my stomach has butterflies
just thinking this is for real. This isn’t a movie set, and those are real
bullets flying, and real blood on those men I saw them take into one of the
rooms. Yes, I was watching the surveillance cameras too. Saw that clip from the
security camera showing Kenneth and some men take two wounded men to some
room.”
“No
Ma’am,” Luis said. “This isn’t a movie set like you’re used you. This is for
real, and there are some real bad people out there who think it’s okay to hurt
innocent people, plant bombs in places or steal people’s identities, or kidnap
people…you know. Well, someone’s got to stand up to protect the people, and if
you have the skills, talents, training, and disposition to do it, you should.”
I
laughed, pulling Luis in closer. He was like a great big muscular and sexy hot
teddy bear. I ran my hands over the top of his t-shirt, feeling the hard
muscles of his chest. He was rock solid, which made me nearly salivate. I’ve
haven’t had sex with anyone who came close to being this built. “I like how you
think,” I said, looking up at him and into his eyes.
Nat
said he trusted Luis with his life. That meant Luis must be pretty special, and
that was fine in my book.
“How
did you meet Na…Andrew?” I said, using Nat’s pseudonym?
“Long
story,” Luis said, looking down at me. His eyes had started getting darker as I
played with his chest. “He saved my life twice. Could’ve left me for dead, like
my partner, but he came back, risked his own life, to get me out of a difficult
and complex situation.”
“Ex-military?”
I asked.
“No,”
Luis said, “Ex-law enforcement. Down at the border near Mexico. I was sent in
along with my partner to bust up a drug deal that went sour. It got ugly, and
when I needed my partner to back me up, he pulled one on me. Turned out he was
on the take, and he had planned it so I was never going to report it. Right in
the nick of time, though, one of the undercover agents, acting like a dealer,
turned around, shot my partner, and freed me, helping me get out alive. Turned
out it was Andrew, working undercover, as part of an operation to bring down
the same crime lord who was committing cybercrimes while dealing drugs. I left
law enforcement since and came to work with Andrew, who I swear, was like some
modern Scarlett Pimpernel.”
I
was easing up. Luis was easing up. “The butterflies in my stomach is slowly
settling down,” I said.
“Good,”
Luis said, smiling, his eyes looking warmly at me. Boy, I took a breath. He
was handsome, and…my hand accidentally brushed against the front of his slacks,
very aroused.
His
eyes narrowed a bit as he moved closer. “How can I help make all those
butterflies settle completely?”
I
blinked my eyes. Was he attracted to me? He didn’t act like it at first, unlike
the other men at the Compound who gave me those appreciative looks I was used
to getting from men. Luis, he could have been built from a stone statue, the
way he didn’t even blink when I walked by.
“Could
you show me to one of the guest rooms?” I asked. “I’d like to freshen up, get
out of these clothes, maybe take a long hot shower to relax…” I looked into
Luis’ eyes and licked my lips. My hand moved down to the front of his slacks
and brushed against the large bulge there. “I think I need help scrubbing my
back in the shower.”
Luis
nearly shot straight up as he pulled me against him, and hurriedly led me
through Nat’s main living room, the zen garden room, and into a room