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right arm and leg over his warm body and he pulls me flush against him.
    “Good morning, gorgeous,” he murmurs.  
    He lays a soft kiss on my forehead and I return the gesture with a lingering kiss on his scruffy jaw.
    “Good morning.”
    “I have to go to work soon.”
    “On Sunday!”
    He chuckles and the sound is so warm, I want to wrap myself in it. “I work every day. But I’ll be back in a few hours. Make yourself at home. The staff will get you anything you need.”
    I trace my finger down the middle of his solid chest, then I kiss his nipple. “I love … being in your house.”
    I pull my head back a little to watch his reaction. He’s wearing a soft smile as he looks out the window. I grab his chin and turn his head so he’s looking at me.
    “But I still feel like we’re hiding.”
    His smile disappears. “Of course we’re hiding. There’s a lot at stake here. No one can know my true identity. Your father doesn’t even know.”
    “But I just want to do something normal. I want you to take me to dinner or a movie or something. Isn’t that what you want? To feel free for a little while?”
    “Rebecca, I’ll never be free until this mission is complete. Once Tony’s out of the picture, you and I can go to any restaurant or movie theater in Manhattan. We’ll dance naked in fucking Times Square if that’s what you want. But right now, it’s not possible.”
    I lie back on my pillow and stare at the ceiling feeling utterly defeated. Knox turns onto his side and lays his hand on my belly.  
    “Okay, listen. I’m finding out today if everything is set up for you to meet your father on Thursday. If I get the green light, I’ll take you on a date tonight. Deal?”
    “A date? Like a real human date?”
    “A real human date. I’ll even bring you some flowers if you want.”
    I turn onto my side to face him again and he immediately reaches around to rest his hand on my ass. “It’s a deal.”  
    He lands a soft swat on my behind, then he slides out of bed. “How are you feeling today? Sore?”
    I gather the comforter between my legs to fill the void left by his absence. “I feel great.” I slide my hand between my legs to check how sensitive I am after last night’s lesson.  
    He tilts his head at me. “Are you touching yourself?”
    “Just checking to make sure everything’s okay down there.”
    I squeal as he pulls the covers off me and tosses them to the floor. “I’ll be the judge of that.”

11

    I decide not to hang around Knox’s house. I’m not one to lounge around and do nothing unless I’m with someone. So I ask one of his driver’s to take me to my apartment, then I change into my workout clothes and head for the gym. I need to make sure I’m in pique physical condition for whatever Knox has planned for tonight — and for many nights to come.
    I get lucky and find an empty elliptical machine right when I arrive at 11:30 a.m. I drape my towel over the display so I can’t see the number of minutes I’ve been on the machine. This helps because it allows me to keep going past a set time of thirty or forty-five minutes. I just keep going until I can’t take it anymore.  
    It also helps when someone accuses me of hogging the machine. I can say, “Whoops! My towel was covering the timer. Sorry.”
    I’m only on the machine a few minutes before someone calls my name from somewhere behind me.
    “Rebecca? Is that you?”
    I glance over my shoulder and find Lenny Pastore. Lenny worked for my dad until the shake-up in 2004 when Tony Angelo and a few of his guys went rogue. Lenny was about the same age as Marco when Marco’s mom, Melissa Leone, was killed by Tony in a bad deal. Tony was trying to get some information from Melissa. I never found out what kind of information he was gunning for, but he killed her in May 2004.
    The weird part was that he didn’t try to get away with it at first. He beat the crap out of her and stayed put until the cops got there to arrest