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“Damn!” muttered Riley. “So we’ll have to let her go?”

  “We don’t have a choice. She made a brilliant plan; I’ll give her that,” he said in a furious voice. “But as long as she doesn’t have any evidence, it wouldn’t matter if she were out. And if she does try to go to the police later, we could always take care of her later.”

  Riley sucked in a deep breath. The man was bloodthirsty. He wouldn’t just stop here. Whenever he got the chance, he would eliminate Tania to avoid the risk of ever getting caught. It wasn’t just enough to scare these people. They needed to put them behind bars. “You could call someone to go with you.”

  “That Jason guy is Mr. Hollywood. You think he would have the guts to try something on me in plain broad day? I don’t think so. No. This is easy and quick. I go out and collect the papers. You stay here, guard her, and, when the times comes, release her. That’s all we need to do. I trust you, Riley. You brought her in and now you’ve got to see this through.”

  Riley nodded, hoping his eyes didn’t betray him. “I’ll do it. She will remain in this room and would only move out when you call me.”

  “Good man!” Raymond clapped him on the back. “Needless to say, when all this is behind us, I would be happy to put your name forward as a member of the board.”

  “It would be an honor to serve as a high member,” he said in a voice that brimmed with honesty. Of course, there was a time when he wanted this above anything. He needed that prestige, but now all he wanted was to keep Tania safe. One thing, he was happy about: Jason’s idea to fine tune the plan was brilliant. The guy had worked on so many scripts that he sure knew what would work in a given situation. He’d assured them Raymond would do either of two things: he would send Riley out to collect the papers or else he would go on his own. If he’d sent out Riley, Jason would’ve called the man and said he wanted to meet with him personally. But Jason had been confident that Raymond would come himself because he wouldn’t want Riley to get his hands on such key evidence. Out of the two things, Tania and the evidence, the evidence was more precious to him and he would want to keep it in his grasp.

  “I should leave now. The guy didn’t give much time – seemed eager to get her back. He’s a really good friend.” He wriggled his brow. “It appears she may have been pleasing him in more ways than one.”

  “It doesn’t matter to me. That part of our story is finished,” he said in a calm voice.

  “Good for you, Riley. That’s what I like about you. Your priorities are clear.” Raymond glanced at Tania and then checked his watch. “I should go. Take care.”

  After Raymond left, Riley waited until he heard the sound of the car driving off. He rushed to the window and checked to make sure he had, indeed, left. Now, there was much work to do. Raymond was a paranoid man and didn’t employ any domestic help for fear they would betray him. Thankfully, this meant they didn’t have to worry about prying eyes.

  Tania rushed out to join him. “Check his study first.”

  Out of his pocket, Riley pulled two pairs of gloves and passed one to her. “This is going to take some time.”

  “Let’s hope Jason can keep him occupied until then.”

  Their plan hinged on Raymond going on and leaving them at his house. They needed to get the papers from his safe. “There has to be a safe,” he muttered as they marched towards the room where Raymond had gone to talk to Jason. As expected, it was his study. The safe was nowhere to be seen.

  For a moment, Riley was nonplussed. Where were the papers? He wouldn’t have kept them anywhere else! He didn’t trust anyone and would want to keep everything important in his possession. Riley’s gaze traveled to the walls while Tania checked the drawers and cabinets. She looked at the files and folders.

  “This isn’t anything we can use.”

  Riley’s gaze settled on the painting that dominated a wall. Raymond wasn’t an art lover, but this print of Van Gogh’s panting was, indeed, beautiful. He doubted the man as much as glanced at it once a day. Walking over, he took down the painting. “Bingo!” he said when saw the safe.

  “How will you open it?”

  He took out an electronic device from his pocket. Once more, it was courtesy of Jason who had used it in a movie once. Although it wasn’t available on the market, it was a custom made prop and was in Jason’s possession; he liked to hold onto them – they gave him a feeling of prestige. “Jason showed me. I just hope it works.” Riley had never done anything like this in his life. He put the device on top of the combination bar. It was a simple safe that needed a four-letter combination. After switching on the device, he punched a button and numbers and letters sprang to life. It was some kind of a mini computer that tried to crack the code. If the safe were manual, he had a set of keys in his pocket that could open it, but he’d guessed that Raymond was the kind of man who would need the highest security in his office. He wouldn't like a manual thing.

  Within three minutes, the computer guessed the code and the safe clicked open. Riley pulled the door and saw the sheaf of papers. He took them out and passed on half to Tania. “Read them to see which are relevant.”

  Quickly, they went through the papers. Tania was excited. “There is more here. They have done this before. See here and here.”

  “Grab this all,” he decided. “It wouldn’t hurt to present this to the police.”

  Tania gathered the papers. Taking out a folder from Raymond’s desk, she put everything in it. “Now what?”

  “Now we wait for his call.”

  “Are you crazy?”

  He laughed. “Now we get out, of course. I’ll call Jason and tell him to skedaddle from that place.”

  “It wouldn’t take Raymond long to figure out that Jason was lying, that he never had any evidence to hand out,” she said.

  “And then he would wonder as to why we went through this hassle.” Carefully, he closed the safe and put the painting back. He took a look around to see if anything was out of place. “He would come here and we would be gone. He would come in this room and everything would look all right.”

  “Do you think he would open the safe to see if his precious evidence was locked inside?”

  Riley led her out of the room and closed the door. He put a hand on the small of her back as they went out. Opening the main door, he stepped outside. “Paranoid as he is, he would surely check.”

  “I hope he doesn’t have a heart attack.” She sat in the car. Riley joined her. “I sure would like to see the look on his face when the police arrest him.”

  “We’ll meet him in court,” Riley assured her. Once they were out of his house, he called Jason. “The work is done. Get out of there.”

  “Right,” said Jason.

  Riley wondered what excuse he would give Raymond for walking away from the meeting. He didn’t care. They were home free, and they had enough evidence in their hands to nail Raymond and the whole gang. The man trusted no one and, yet, he was the one who ended up betraying his club. Because of his carelessness, he would send them all to jail. They all deserved the fate. Riley might’ve forgiven them for blowing up that place, but not for trying to kill Tania. Now, they would pay the price for it. He didn’t mind.“We should go straight to the police station.”

  “We need to first see Jason and show him this. He will guide us. And if he goes with us to the station, it would be great. The police would take him seriously,” said Tania.

  Soon they reached Jason’s house. The maid let them in; Jason wasn’t home yet. When he didn’t come in, Riley began to worry. What the hell? Where was he?

  Just as he picked up his phone to call, the front door opened and in walked Jason.

  He was carrying a bottle of champagne in his hand. “Time to celebrate, my friends.”

  “You moron! We were worried.” Tania ran to hug him. “We got him.”

  “We sure did.” Jason grinned. He shook hands with Riley. “Did it go according to plan?”

  “As smooth as making pie,” he assured him. “Wh
at about you? What did you tell him after I called?”

  “I sad that I was going to the bathroom, and he should order coffee. He didn’t seem happy but since I was the one who was supposedly carrying the evidence, he didn’t have much choice.”

  “We got him good,” said Tania.

  Riley laughed. “I wonder how long he waited there, and when he realized you’re gone for good…”

  “He would rush home and get another shock,” said Jason.

  He put the bottle down on the bar and opened it. “This was exhilarating, to say the least. For the first time in my life, I actually dealt with a gangster. Before this, movies and books…it wasn’t real.”

  “Well, I can only hope that I never get embroiled in such a thing ever again,” Tania said as she accepted a glass of champagne. “I have to admit I was scared.”

  Riley ran a hand over her cheek. “You don’t have to be scared anymore.”

  It wasn’t true, though. This wasn’t over as yet, not by a long shot. Raymond wasn’t the kind of man who admitted defeat so easily, and especially now when he was made a fool of, he wouldn’t just sit back and let it go. He would do his utmost to destroy them. But now Riley was ready. He would do whatever was necessary to protect the woman he loved.

  Chapter Three

  Back at Jason’s house, Riley breathed a sigh of relief. He wasn’t sure if they would make it, but now Tania was safe and they managed to get the papers. It was a double bonus, and he had to thank her and Jason for it. Without them, this scheme couldn’t have been a success.

  “Jason isn’t back yet,” Tania commented as they climbed up the stairs. “I hope Raymond doesn’t follow him here.”

  “Even if he does, Jason is clever enough to fool him. Once he’s inside this house, he’s safe.”

  “It was too easy,” she said.

  “Ah! Now you say it when all is over. Trust me, my heart was in my throat most of the time,” he admitted.

  “I was frightened, too. If that guy didn’t believe us…well, it ended with a good result and that’s all that matters.”

  They went inside the room and he closed the door. Riley took her in his arms without a moment’s notice. His lips claimed her. Frightened and scared wasn’t how he would’ve described his feelings. In Raymond’s house, he was petrified. If anything happened to Tania, he wouldn’t have forgiven himself. Now he could breathe easy knowing that no one would hurt them anymore. Once they handed over the papers to the police, there wasn’t much the gang could do to them.

  He pushed all thoughts from his mind as his lips roamed over hers. When her lips parted, he thrust his tongue in her mouth and tasted everything as if they were doing this for the first time. Like always, the desire that skidded and slipped through his veins was unstoppable. The need that burned through his gut had a life of its own, and he was now a prisoner of this primal urge, picking her up without breaking contact with her mouth.

  When he set her down next to the bed, neither of them wasted any time. She tugged off her dress while he fiddled with the buttons of his shirt. Reaching behind her back, she unhooked the bra and took it off. The sight of her heavy, firm breasts spilling out of the delicate material sent a tingle of passion straight through his stomach and down into his cock that rose to the occasion. He stripped off his trousers while she slipped out of her panties.

  He couldn’t wait to take her in his arms. When he rested his hands on her shoulders, Riley felt a fission of excitement. His hands slipped down the smooth, bare skin of her arms while his gaze rested on her tits, slowly beckoning him to take them in his hands. He rested the tips of his fingers on her nipples and watched her shudder.

  Riley helped her lie down on the bed. She expected him to join her, but he bent down and nestled in between her legs.

  “Please,” she begged.

  He grabbed her hands and held them against the bed sheet while he pushed his face in between her legs. The sweet scent of her arousal drove him crazy. He licked the lips of her pussy and she gasped. Holding her down, Riley took his time as he tasted and relished the velvety center ripe with need. His tongue swept over her bud and she groaned.

  He thrust his tongue in between the lips of her pussy and she climaxed with a loud scream. Her muscles shuddered and quivered as he rose. She was breathtakingly beautiful and now, when he’d just shown her a piece of heaven, she looked even more gorgeous. He was lucky to have her in his life. The woman was all that mattered now.

  He joined her on the bed and felt her arms band around his back. Dipping his head, he captured her nipple in his mouth. She gasped as he paid homage to her breasts. His tongue caressed and fondled the hard bud until she was a mass of frayed nerves. Her nails raked over his back. She was close, he could feel it, but she pushed him away.

  Surprised, he rolled over and watched as she slipped down his torso. Her hands held his thighs, making it difficult for him to move – not that he wanted to. He could tell what was on her mind, and he wanted it more than anything ever before. She cupped her balls and caressed them, and he moaned. Riley never liked giving over the power in bed to a woman, but with Tania, he felt comfortable doing so. She was special, more than he could describe.

  Her tongue caressed his cock and he writhed under her. It was her turn to make him squirm. Her tongue twisted around his cock and fondled and teased until he was the one clenching the sheets. She licked and kissed the head, and Riley thought he might burst any time.

  She rose over him and before his over-energized mind could figure out what she was up to, she took position over him and lowered her hips, taking him into her pussy. Riley groaned as he grabbed her hips. She was like a force of nature, unstoppable, uncontrollable. She moved up and down, taking him in and out, and he couldn’t do anything to stop her.

  There was nothing else he wanted other than to find the release that stayed tantalizingly out of reach. The pleasure that skidded through his veins was stormy and wild. Over and over, her pelvic bone slapped into his until she was a blur of motion on top of him. Their hips moved in unison for what seemed like an eternity. He cupped her breasts and squeezed and she came with a mighty scream. The orgasm rippled through her faster than she thought possible, and she shuddered.

  Turning her over while they were still attached, he thrust inside her, once, twice – and then finally he exploded inside her. Riley collapsed. It was one of the most exhilarating experiences of his life. Every time he made love to Tania, it was as if they did it for the first time.

  “It still seems like a dream,” she gasped, her body splayed on the sheets next to him.

  “To me, too. Let’s do it again to see if it was real,” he winked.

  She laughed and stood. “I wasn’t talking about that, you moron. The fact that we stole papers from Raymond’s safe…that was surreal.”

  “Not for him.”

  She stretched as she glanced down at his magnificent body. “Tempting as it is to snuggle into bed with you, I think we’ve got work to do.”

  He pouted. Riley stood. “Ah! Work. That never comes to an end. We should go to the police and finish this story once and for all.”

  She marched into the bathroom. “Hey, Jason has been thoughtful enough to leave his clothes for you.” Tania went into the shower and quickly rinsed off. She emerged and got dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. “We should go with Jason to the police station. They will take him seriously.”

  “But would he want to get involved in such a sordid tale?”

  “Let’s ask him. I hope he’s come back.”

  After Riley took a shower and got dressed, they marched downstairs. Much to their relief, Jason was in the living room. “So what’s the verdict?” he said.

  Riley smiled. “Got everything.” He showed Jason the papers and the two of them went over them. “This isn’t just enough to nail them on the warehouse, but also on a couple of other accounts of fraud. The police will have a field day, especially when Tania slaps in the kidnapping.”

  “I don’
t think you should add that in,” said Jason.

  “Why not?” Riley bristled. He longed to send those people away for a long time. They could’ve killed Tania, and kidnapping was also a serious crime. “We could get them.”

  “No, you won’t be able to. She doesn’t accurately remember the people who were in the room, and she doesn’t know the location. Be glad that you’ve got these papers. It should be enough to send them in for a few years.”

  Riley rubbed a hand on his forehead. “I don’t like it.”

  “Neither do I, but it’s the best you’ve got so flow with it.”

  Tania licked her bottom lip. “You’re not coming with us to the police?”

  “I don’t want to be identified with this right now. When I write this story into a dynamite script, I don’t people to start drawing comparison with this particular incident.”