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some time…unless somebody with a twitchy finger controlled the trigger and then he just might get killed before the bastard even arrived. He would take his chances. Freedom meant the world to him; and he planned to reclaim his.
     

     
    “Hi, Jet.” Natalia gave him a devious smile. “How’s Akira?”
     
    “Shut up,” he smirked.
     
    “Well you are fashionably late today…again.”
     
    Jet chuckled. He had only been “fashionably late,” as Natalia liked to call it, three times in the past two months. He would admit that was out of character for him. He was never late. Technically since they didn’t have set schedules he still wasn’t late, but he was behind his normal schedule. Normally he was in by eight in the morning and today it was closer to ten o’clock.
     
    Akira hadn’t been very willing to let him leave the bed this morning, and she hadn’t let him get much sleep last night either. He wasn’t complaining. He wanted to pleasure her body all night long so that’s what he did. Eventually they drifted off to sleep. It was seven when he awakened. He was ready to shower and get off to work, but she had other plans. She pulled him back into bed and got him between her legs. Then, of course, they had to shower together. It made more sense to be environmentally sound and not waste water with separate showers so they showered together. That had been a mistake, as usual, because a simple shower had turned him on so much that he had to have her in there too. They had finally managed to get dressed but one kiss nearly led to being naked again until she pushed him away and told him to go to work. She had to go to her parents’ place and then she was going into the rink to skate for the day. He wished he could have gone with her, but he did have to work.
     
    Preston hadn’t checked in on Thursday night as planned. The second check in would be today and if he didn’t check in then they were going to have to go do recon and find him. They were all used to not being able to check in at the first check in time, but   if anybody missed the first check in the rules had changed after Micah’s missing in action event and they all knew to check in as soon as they could, even if that was before the second check in time. Preston hadn’t done that. If he didn’t check in today they were going to have to put something together, book a flight and get to Egypt. Maybe they should take the plane; it would make for a fast in and a fast out   if they needed it, but at the same time if Preston were in trouble it was going to be a three man mission and there wouldn’t be anybody to stay with the jet. Julian wasn’t available. He was on his last leg before retirement and he couldn’t escape duty to help them out this time. Either Jet or Micah would have to fly which meant one of them would have to stay with the plane while the other two went off on the rescue mission. Complicating things was that they would still need to find Victoria’s sister.
     
    “I was just thinking has anybody heard from Victoria yet? She was calling every day up until Preston’s departure.”
     
    Natalia shook her head no. “Either she has a huge crush on the man and was just calling to hear his voice or there was a sale at Neiman Marcus.” She laughed.
     
    “Her sister is missing.”
     
    She shrugged. “I don’t trust her. I think she has an agenda. So I stand by my huge crush on the man for all the phone calls, or a sale has distracted her so much that she’s not thinking about the rescue mission.”
     
    “Those are your only options?”
     
    “No…but I don’t typically think the worst of people…”
     
    Alex stepped out of his office, along with Micah out of his own. “Spill it,” Alex said.
     
    “I don’t know. I can’t explain it, but there is something about her that just…rubs me the wrong way. It’s not because she’s tall, thin and beautiful either…she’s just…je ne sais quoi,” she