Chapter 16
Two hours later, Paul pulled his motorcycle into the shop on his farm, shut it off, and sighed heavily. He waited until Petra dismounted, he thought about the activities of the day and heaved another heavy sigh.
“You okay?” Petra asked with her hand on his shoulder, looking at him in concern.
“Yeah,” he said as he reached up and laid his hand over hers. “You know how your mind runs through things when you ride?”
“Yeah, I figure out any problems, then get into the zone and it all goes away.”
“Yeah, it does the same for me, but not tonight. I kept thinking about what Paula went through, and it had me wondering if there are other women like her. Is Eddie behind it all, or is he part of a ring? Is he in charge of something bigger? Does he know of anything else going on with others like Paula? I can’t seem to shut my brain off on this issue. ”
Petra reached down and hugged him tightly.
As they entwined, they thought about what he had said.
Petra stood back up, and watched as Paul dismounted from the bike, go to the saddlebag to remove the plastic wrapped backpack, but he took it to a room he had installed weeks ago.
Once inside, he set the package on the work bench.
“Are you going to go through it tonight?”
“No, I’m going to sleep on it and go at it fresh in the morning.”
“Good.” Petra turned from the doorway and waited for him to join her. He locked up the safe room, and together they made their way to the house. Once inside, they removed their shoes, leather jackets, and Petra headed to the kitchen. “I’m going to get the coffee pot ready for the morning.”
“Okay,” Paul called after her and took his time to join her.
“I know it’s still early,” he said as he entered the kitchen and looked at the clock mounted on the wall above the kitchen sink.
It was shortly before eight at night. “But I’m going to call it a night.
I’m going up to my room for a hot shower, and maybe I can relax enough to fall asleep.
” He walked over and kissed the side of her head, then left the room.
Petra watched him go, finished getting the coffee ready for the next morning, and made sure it was programmed to start at six.
She walked around to make sure everything was cleaned up, and made her way to her own room.
While she showered, she let her mind wander, and came up with a decision.
With a grin on her face, she finished, wrapped a towel around her hair, and body, then paid extra attention to applying her favorite body lotion.
After that, she towel dried her hair, brushed it, and looked at herself with a critical eye.
She removed the towel, inspected her body, and liked what she saw.
With a nod, she donned her silk bathrobe, the one she only wore when she wanted to pamper herself, and walked out of the bathroom, looked at the bed, and walked out of her bedroom.
At Paul’s door, she leaned in to listen, and when she didn’t hear the shower, she knocked.
“Yeah,” Paul called out, and Petra drew in a deep breath, let it out slowly, and opened the door.
She paused when she saw Paul standing in the middle of his room with only a towel wrapped around his hips.
She sucked in her breath as she caught sight of his hard, muscular body.
She rubbed her thighs together when she saw his chest hair, and the happy trail that disappeared into the towel.
“What’s up?” Paul asked and it took all his concentration not to get an erection at the sight of her in her silk robe.
“Question,” Petra said, not knowing how else to ask him what she needed to. She always was honest in everything she could do, unless it would get her undercover assignment blown. But she had never lied to Paul since knowing he was one of the good guys.
“Shoot,” Paul said.
“Will you join me in my room tonight?”
Paul stared at her for several minutes, then shook his head as to clear it.
“Are you asking what I think you are? Because if we do this, then I will be sleeping in your bed every night. By the time you leave for work tomorrow, all of my things will be in your room. We will be a real couple in every sense of the word.” He watched the expression flit across her face, and tried to withhold his groan when her tongue slipped out and licked her lips.
“Okay,” she said, and laughed when he hurried up to her, picked her up, and walked out of his room toward hers.
Once inside, he tossed her onto the center of the bed and stared down at her. In the process her robe had come untied, and opened.
“Lord have mercy,” he whispered and didn’t bother to temper his erection.
He fell onto the bed beside her, losing his towel in the process.
He laid his hand on her flat stomach, and leaned down to kiss her.
It was several minutes before either of them came up for air, and he smiled at her when she squeezed his cock tighter.
“I’m impatient, as much as I want to explore you, I really, really want you inside me. We can always explore later.”
“A woman after my own heart,” he said with a smile, then froze. “Fuck.”
“What?”
“I forgot the condoms in my room.”
“In the nightstand,” she giggled at his shocked expression, then giggled harder as he lunged forward. This brought his chest within inches of her face, unable to resist, she leaned up and licked one of his nipples. When he jerked, she raised her hands to prevent him from crushing her.
“You’ll pay for that,” he said as he grabbed the condom, slipped it on and in no time he was poised above her.
He reached between them and swore when he felt how wet she was.
He leaned down to kiss her and with his lips locked onto hers, he gripped his cock and slowly entered her.
He winced at how tight she was, but he kept going until he couldn’t go any further.
“Thank you,” she said as she broke off the kiss to reach up and placed her hand on the side of his face.
“For?” he asked between clenched teeth.
“For not going slow.”
He smiled and kissed her again. This time he broke it off and before he did anything else, he rose up to be on his forearms to look at her deeply. He smiled again, and began to move. “I might not be as good as I was when I was younger, but I can make it last.”
“Prove it,” she challenged him and wrapped her arms and legs around him, cradling him close.
She met him thrust for thrust and it wasn’t long before she cried out from her first orgasm from him, and also her first one in years.
She smiled when he slowed down for her to enjoy it, then paced himself faster.
By the time they laid off to the side, both breathing hard, she had experienced three orgasms, each one more intense than the last, and he had shouted her name when he finally came.
“Damn, woman,” Paul said when he could catch his breath. He reached between them, held onto the condom, then rose from the bed to go dispose of it. While in the bathroom, he turned on the shower, went back to the bedroom, picked her up, and carried her directly into the shower.
“Eek! You could have let it warm up first,” she shrieked at him.
Paul only laughed. “Maybe I should check out the hot water heater sometime.” He turned so his back took the brunt of the water until it heated, then he brought her beneath the spray.
They didn’t linger in the shower, only staying long enough to clean themselves up.
When they returned to the bedroom, they dropped their towels, climbed between the sheets, and Paul wrapped his arms around her.
“Tomorrow, between breakfast and when you have to leave for work, I’ll move all my things in here. Is there room for me?”
“Yes, there are two closets, I only use half of one. There are also two dressers, again, I only use one. As you saw, the bath has two sinks, I only use one and the drawers beneath it. When we moved in here, I knew that eventually you would be sharing this room with me, so I kept that in mind when I unpacked.” She turned so she looked directly at him as she said this next part.
“I always knew we would be together, but I had to be sure, and after watching you weld that chain earlier today, I’ll be honest, it made me freaking hot. ” She grinned when he snorted a laugh.
“Thank you, I think, but remind me to stock up on the pain killers and either Ben-Gay or some other sort or topical pain reliever. I can’t be doing that with the chair every time we go out on a run.”
“Did you take anything after we got home?”
“Yes, I had just popped a couple of Tylenol before you knocked on my door.” He settled in the bed further and reached up to lay her head on his shoulder. They both sighed in contentment and it didn’t take them long to fall asleep.
They turned to each other twice in the night, so that when the alarm went off at six, they both groaned, but looked at each other with a smile.
They took their time getting ready, and at one point Petra hurried down to get them both a cup of coffee.
Back upstairs, she handed him his cup, and together they moved his things into her room.
It only took an hour and she carried his cup as he stripped the sheets from both beds and brought them down.
In the kitchen, she started breakfast as he tossed the linens in the washer.
As they settled down to pancakes and bacon neither spoke until they were halfway through the meal.
“What’s on your agenda for today?” Petra asked at one point.
“I’ll be out in the shop going through the bag Paula gave us.” He shook his head and sighed.
“What?”
“Remember when Warren went through Eddie’s pockets to get the key to the lock on Paula’s collar?”
“Yes, what about it?”
Paul grinned. “He happened to lift his wallet, and he dropped it in the pack we got from Paula. I’ll use our connections through the agencies to run a background check on the information from the wallet.”
“And the pack?”
“I’ll go over everything in it with a fine-tooth comb.” He shook his head when she was going to speak. “I’ll wear gloves and document everything. Did you see the contents of that pack?”
“Only a little. I thought I saw several rolled bundles of bills.”
“Yeah, I did too, I believe there are drugs already bagged, ready for resale.”
“Depending on how much, that’s going to be a felony, right?”
“That’s what I’m hoping. Depending on what else I find, I’m going to have to contact Kessler and Flynn to get this to them. I would like to have tests run on the type of drugs I spotted. Oh, and don’t worry, I’ll make sure I take pictures of all the bills, especially the serial numbers.”
“I know we’re just starting out here, but maybe we should talk to the big bosses about the possibility of having them reach out for someone from a local office to be as our go between.
” She shook her head and held up her hand.
“I know it will be hard to trust someone, but I would feel better if we had someone closer.” She sighed as she finished her breakfast then poured them each another cup of coffee.
“I know there’s an ATF office over in Des Moines, and I believe but don’t quote me on this, but I believe the DEA office is closed. You’ll have to look into it.”
“Thanks for that information, I will put it on my list.” He tapped the side of his head, then rose to clear the table. As he did that, Petra pulled the sheets from the washer.
“Do you mind if I hang the linens out on the line?”
“No, I actually like the smell of them drying in the sun all day.”
“Me too, could you remember to take them down before dark?”
“Yes, and I’ll even make the bed.” He waggled his brows and she laughed as she shook her head at him and took the sheets out to the clothes line. She cleaned the house and got something for dinner in the crockpot and before she left for work, she walked up to him and kissed him deeply.
“I’ll see you shortly after nine.”
“Okay, and I’ll let you know what I find, if anything. I’m going into this investigation of Eddie that today will be a fact-finding mission and the information won’t come trickling in until the end of the week.”
“Okay, please be careful, and remember to use gloves. You don’t know what type of drugs are in there. I know I don’t have to tell you this, but you might want to wear a face mask also. Just to err on the side of caution.”
“I agree.” He gathered her in his arms and gave her a kiss to hold her over and laughed when he had to hold her upright afterward. It pleased him that his kisses made her knees weak.
He stood on the front porch with a fresh cup of coffee as he watched her climb into her vehicle and drive away.