Page 22 of Waggs

Aiden groaned, and she liked this sexy, playful side of him, but she wanted to know what was said at the meeting with his team before this went any further, and she couldn’t pull herself away from him. “What did your team say?”

Aiden stopped his lips on her neck and pulled away to look at her. “We doing this now?”

“I think we should, before either of us can’t remember our own name.”

“I already can’t remember my name. You scramble my thoughts, Wills.”

Willow cocked her head. “In a good way?”

Aiden sat up and pulled her feet onto his lap, his hands kneading the arch of her foot. She tried to avert her eyes from the impressive erection his sweatpants were doing nothing to hide and failed. A blush stole over her cheeks when he caught her looking.

“In the best way.”

“Good, because that’s how you make me feel too.” She wanted to add that he always had but knew it would be opening a can of worms she wasn’t ready to discuss.

She felt a shudder run through his body and wanted to ease his anxiety about them, but there was no way she could, because like it or not their future was uncertain. There might be love between them, but love didn’t always conquer all, God knew she knew that better than anyone.

“Jack hasn’t got anyone spare for a few weeks. We have this big tour that HRH is planning for Europe starting in October and it’s a massive security headache with the world the way it is. Once Liam has finished writing up his risk reports, and Deck has done the assessments on all of the people likely to be in close contact with the Queen, they’re free to help us out for a bit. Jack proposed that we, meaning me and Lopez, investigate from here until we can head back to Kentucky and look into the trucking yard. Liam will go in undercover as Ralph and Jerry both know me.”

“Is it safe for us to go back?” Part of her wanted him to say no, that she and AJ should move to the UK, but she knew he wouldn’t do that. He had no idea how she felt and would never presume to uproot her life.

“It will be. Deck and Liam will be with us, and I won’t leave you alone, I promise.” He looked her in the eye. “You and AJ are my priority. It took me a while to see it, but I should’ve never left you alone. Aaron would kick my ass for it, or at least he’d try.”

“I forgot how competitive you two were.”

Aiden grinned at her as he turned to face her, cocking his leg onto the couch. “From the minute we were born. We competed for everything, not in a horrible, hateful way, but I guess we were always testing each other. Pushing that alpha thing to see who would come out on top. Sometimes it was me and other times, Aaron.”

“Do you remember that time he bet you he could eat more jalapeno chicken wings?”

Aiden began to chuckle, throwing his head back, so the sexy column of his neck was exposed. “Oh, my God, I totally forgot about that.”

“I didn’t. I thought you were both going to puke.”

“I can’t believe we both ate the same amount before we called it quits.”

“Yeah, you two were ridiculously similar.”

“We both have the same scar from an operation when we were five. Aaron started feeling sick at school, and Mom rushed him to the doctor, who said he had appendicitis. An hour later, the school called because I became sick. We had beds next to each other on the paediatric ward. Then there was the time we went carolling with the school to the old folks’ homes. It was so damn hot, and we had winter coats on. I fainted, and as Aaron saw me go, he fainted too.”

“Your poor mother. How is she not grey already?”

“A good hairdresser would be my guess.”

“Hey.” She dug him gently in the ribs with her toe, and he grabbed it and began to tickle her. Before she knew it, she was on her back as Aiden tortured her with his fingers, and she begged for mercy. They were both out of breath, laughing, when the doorbell rang.

Aiden looked up, and Willow froze. “You expecting someone?”

He shook his head. “No, but it could be Bebe. She just got back from a job. She normally comes over when she’s done, and we share a pizza and beer.”

“Oh, okay.” Willow began to scoot out from under him as he leapt to his feet and dropped a kiss on her upturned lips.

“Green suits you, Wills.”

“Shut up.” Willow threw a pillow at him as he sauntered to the door, checking the peephole before opening it wide to a stunningly beautiful woman.

Willow instantly felt jealousy burn hot and bitter in her belly as the woman reached up and hugged Aiden. It didn’t help that she was wearing leggings and a plain pink t-shirt with no make-up. Patting her hair down, she tried to make herself a little more presentable as Aiden led the vision towards her.

She had perfect golden-brown skin, with dark mahogany hair that was thick and fell in waves down her back, curves to die for, and long-lashed eyes that were so dark they were almost black.