The Billionaire Agent: BBW Mystery Romance (Alpha Male Romantic Suspense Short Story) Read online

  “What are you doing? Get off me!”

  Gavin noticed the bandaging on her hand and frowned with worry. “Are you alright?”

  She snapped her arm out of his grasp. “I’m fine. You want me to go look for your friend or not?”

  Gavin hesitated.

  At that moment Jenni had a realization. Gavin didn’t just drive out here to throw her away. The police force, no matter what position, just didn’t do that to people. Gavin was some kind of agent, and he was after something else.

  “This is about me, isn’t it?”

  “I made a deal, Jenni.”

  She eyed him cautiously. “About what?”

  Gavin’s eyes remained calm, giving him a serene and very attractive look. “I know what happened last night, Jenni, and I know that you have eight hundred dollars in your pocket.”

  “How?” Jenni exclaimed. “Who told you?”

  “No one told me. I figured it out myself. I smelled the blood on you earlier at the library, and I saw your bandaged hand. The crime reported last night matched your description. It was really rather easy. But I made a deal with Vince that I wouldn’t turn you in to authorities if you helped me solve a case.”

  “You mean this case that you’ve brought me to?” Jenni wondered. She’d tried to be sneaky, but she supposed this was the first time that she’d ever really created a crime scene.

  “That seems rather hasty of you. Couldn’t you lose your job doing something like that?”

  Gavin’s eyes went a little dark as he glanced to the back of the car and tightened the corners of his mouth. “Well, yes. But you can say I owe Vince a favor from some time ago, so I’m just repaying him.”

  “So what about me then?” Jenni wondered. “You said you’d reward me.”

  “You’ll get rewarded by being let off the hook, so long as you give me that eight hundred dollars you stole.”

  Jenni knew she wouldn’t get out of this. If she wanted a clean record, she would have to give Gavin what he asked for. But the rebellious side of her told her not to. Jenni had rightfully earned that money from that old coot, and she had already made plans on how to spend it.

  “I won’t give it to you,” she retorted.

  Gavin tilted his head some. “What’s that now?”

  “I said I won’t give you the money. I earned it.” Jenni started for the door again, but Gavin took her other arm and pulled her backward. She nearly fell into his lap in surprise. This close and with a hand on his jacket, she smelled his woodsy cologne and could pick out the intricate details of his face. He had a faint line of stubble along his jaw that wasn’t visible from far away and his eyes were baby blue. He had a dusty mop of hair that would look messy on anyone else, but gave him a charming characteristic that Jenni found strangely appealing. Despite his easygoing look, however, Gavin had an odd darkness about him that drew Jenni in. She was lost in his eyes, so much so that she’d completely forgotten what they had been arguing about.

  “The money doesn’t belong to you,” Gavin whispered.

  Jenni’s face was close to his, and she felt his warm breath across her neck. She parted her lips to speak, but was caught in a swift tide of sudden want. Before she knew it, her lips had pressed against his. He jerked back for a moment, but then seemed to relax at the sensation and wrapped an arm around her back to pull her fully into his lap. Jenni broke the kiss after a moment and leaned away from him.

  “I-I don’t know what I’m doing,” she admitted.

  He smiled some.

  Jenni felt the heat of frustration rise up inside her again, and she tried to push away from him, but his hands found hers and he drew her back in for another kiss, this time more forced than the last had been. Jenni wasn’t sure how to respond this time. She melted from the second kiss just as much as she had the first, but now she knew he was taking advantage of her befuddled emotions. Still...Jenni wanted it. Gavin was attractive, and he was sneaky like she was. She liked the secretive types.

  Gavin’s hands found her sides, and he brushed them downward. She gripped at them before they reached her pockets, but he eased his hands back out of hers and skipped the pockets to find the hem of her top. He pushed it upward to trail his fingers along her skin. One hand slipped up to her large breasts as the other teased just under the hem of her jeans.

  He was lecherous. Jenni didn’t expect this from such a seemingly charming man. He’d been just as caught up in the moment as she had. Yet she found herself wanting all of it. Already her body began to ache with the want of Gavin’s fingers all over. She wanted them between her legs.

  Gavin’s lips met hers continuously, and she felt helpless in his lap, clutched by his firm hands. His fingers pushed her bra upward so that they could mold around her nipple. She gasped into his mouth as he pinched her lightly. Gavin’s lips trailed kisses down her throat.

  “Relax, Jenni,” he murmured. “You want this now just as much as I do.”

  His shameless desire took over her. Jenni allowed him to slide his hand across her full hips and underneath her jeans. He found her panties and pulled them back to enter new territory. She gripped onto Gavin’s shoulders as he cupped her femininity and stroked at her underside with his middle finger. The sensation jolted up through Jenni’s stomach and down through her shapely thighs, slowly growing into a pulsing want. She lifted onto her knees as Gavin used his other hand to unbutton her pants and give himself more access. His fingers toyed with the folds of her center for a moment until she felt too excited to handle the teasing anymore.

  A sweet whimper escaped her lips, and Gavin smirked when he heard it. Two of his fingers slipped into her moist opening, and her body tensed with sudden pleasure. He hooked his fingers into her firmly and then jerked at her body, pulling her even closer to him. She gasped from the sudden tug. Gavin pushed her jeans down just enough to grip her backside with his other hand. The fingers inside her pushed deeper, and he inserted two more to widen out her cavity.

  Jenni’s eyes were glazy with passion as she gazed at the stranger. Gavin’s eyes had grown shady and mischievous, a smirk still spread over his lips.

  “You like this attention, Jenni?” he whispered as his fingers worked inside her. He pressed his thumb to her clit, and she bucked against his hand in shock.

  Jenni didn’t have words to answer him. She didn’t know what to say. All she knew was that she didn’t want him to stop.

  Gavin’s lips met hers in another kiss, and a sudden roar of a car engine came to life in the parking lot. Stunned by the sudden sound, Jenni climbed off of Gavin as he retrieved his hands.

  “W-What was that?” she exclaimed, trying to look out of the now foggy window.

  Gavin pulled her back against the seat and shifted the car into reverse, backing up and then driving out of the lot quickly.

  “Nothing good,” he said. “We stalled for too long. I wasn’t expecting anyone to be watching from the parking lot.”

  “Watching what?” Jenni gasped as she worked on fixing her pants.

  “Watching whether or not someone would show up to investigate what happened to Andrew Thompson.”

  “Is that the missing person?” she asked, her head still fuzzy from the strange connection she’d just had with Gavin.

  He nodded and hurried the car down the road. “We’ll have to wait until the car leaves the lot and then follow them. I’m sure they’ll plan on telling their head that someone is onto them.”

  “So we’ll get them at the source,” said Jenni.

  Gavin pulled into an alley and let the car idle, glancing at her. “What?”

  “You know. We’ll be right at their head honcho if we follow them, right? So why not just take care of the loser there?”

  Gavin smirked, his eyes glinting in the faint light of the street lamps. “I like your spirit, Jenni, but that isn’t exactly how it works. I can’t bust someone if I don’t know whether or not they have a hostage first.”

  “Well, obviously they have something or some
one if they’re cautious enough to spy on whoever is following them.”

  Gavin kept silent, watching his rearview mirror. The faint sound of a car motor could be heard down the nearby street. Gavin turned off his headlights and pulled out of the alley to follow the noise. It seemed the car headed down the street was the only other one in the neighborhood at the time. It was still much too early for most of the city’s residents to wake up and start going to work.

  “How do you know where this guy’s going if you can barely hear him?” Jenni asked.

  “Using the same principle I did when I heard you coming down the stairs,” Gavin answered.

  Jenni flushed at his words, and she wasn’t even sure why. It wasn’t like she was suddenly in love with a total stranger, but she did love to hear the tone of his voice. She liked the way he looked at her now...like he was hungry for her. She liked his lascivious behavior mixed along with his professional mannerisms. Despite Gavin working with the police force, Jenni couldn’t help but think he was a little crooked, and it only made her like the idea of him touching her that much more. There was just something about Gavin’s dark and cunning demeanor that made Jenni wish that she didn’t have to do this mission for him, and could just hole up in the car with him and have him stroke her again.

  “Are you doing alright?” Gavin asked her after a couple of minutes.

  Jenni looked at him. “Yeah, just...thinking.”

  “About?”

  She shook her head. “Nothing in particular.”

  Gavin chuckled. “You may be a thief, but you’re not a very good liar.”

  Jenni blushed even more. “I was just...wondering what that was back there. You know, the kissing and stuff.”

  “That’s what we call interrupted foreplay.”

  Jenni felt like her face couldn’t get any redder. “No, I meant between you and me. Why did I even kiss you? I don’t know you.”

  “Jenni, right now I think there’s a bigger situation we should worry about than our lust for each other. As much as I would love to pull you into the back of this car and have my way with you, I do have a job to do first. We both do.”

  Jenni dropped her face toward her lap, biting the inside of her cheek and doing her best to not look too turned on by Gavin’s words. He spoke so casually, but there was a spicy hint in there that proved to Jenni that he wasn’t just playing around.

  Gavin stopped on the side of the road and turned the car off. He nodded his head to another tall office building half a block away. “That’s where our friend is going, and where we’re going. This time I won’t be so stupid about where we park.”

  “So you’re coming with me?” Jenni wondered.

  “Of course. You’d have no idea where to look. Believe it or not, I can be about as devious and sly as a thief.”

  Gavin opened his door, and so Jenni followed suit. They made their way through the early morning dark, avoiding the glow of the street lamps, and approached the office building vigilantly. There were no lights on in the building, but Jenni recognized the model of one of the cars parked out back. It was the same one that had started up its engine back at the other building.

  Gavin led Jenni to an entrance opposite the one that the suspect car was parked by. He jiggled the handle.

  “Locked. Of course.” Looking at Jenni, Gavin reached into a pocket and removed a couple of long picks. “Know how to pick locks?”

  “What do you take me for? An amateur?” Jenni retorted while taking the picks from him. She set them to the lock and worked at it diligently. Eventually, the lock clicked and the door handle slackened.

  “Good girl,” Gavin commended before opening the door slowly. “You know in this state you can get heavily fined for what you just did.”

  “How about you keep legal matters to yourself and just stick with the praise?” Jenni hissed.

  Gavin led the way, walking down the hall as silently as possible. He’d been right. Jenni couldn’t hear his footsteps, and even in the silence of the hallway, she couldn’t hear his breathing.

  Gavin gestured for her to follow him down certain hallways, steering clear of the elevators. It was difficult to see in the dark, but Gavin’s jacket was just light enough to make out even in the nearly opaque shadows.

  “Why aren’t we taking the elevators?” she whispered.

  Gavin glanced back at her like she was stupid. “You want to walk right into your death, that’s the best way to do it.”

  She raised her hands innocently to claim her ignorance.

  Gavin opened the door to a stairwell and began to climb. Jenni was quick on his heels. There were no more words exchanged between them as they scaled the staircases. Jenni knew things were about to get grave when she watched Gavin reach into his jacket pocket and retrieve a compact handgun with a silencer attached. She’d been around the city and had seen her fair share of guns from other street rats and thieves, so this didn’t surprise her.

  Gavin tried the handle of the fourth floor. “Locked,” he whispered, and so Jenni came forward to pick it for him.

  “How do you know we need to be on this level?” she asked in a hushed voice.

  “Call it a hunch if you would, but I heard an elevator ding somewhere around here.”

  “I didn’t.”

  “Well come on, girl. Get keener hearing then,” Gavin joked.

  Even in the seriousness of the situation, Jenni found it bizarrely fascinating that Gavin could kid around. Even with a gun in his hand.

  The door unlocked. Gavin nudged her out of the way to open it gradually. He waited a moment after holding the door cracked and listened. Jenni heard faint voices down a hallway, though she couldn’t make out most of the words. Gavin remained attentive, his mouth parted just slightly as he focused and strained his ears to listen to the nearby conversation.

  Gavin pressed the door open a little more and slipped out. Jenni followed him. Gavin stepped down the hall opposite the voices and made a hard left for a nearby door. He checked the handle of that one, and it opened with ease. With a swift glance over her shoulders, Jenni continued to trail behind him as he walked inside.

  A muffled whimper hit her ears from the corner of the room near an office desk. Gavin raced over to untie the man strapped to the swiveling chair. He looked horribly abused, at least from what Jenni saw in the dark. The room smelled like blood. She closed the door as quietly as possible.

  Gavin removed the duct tape from the man’s mouth. “Andrew, are you in too much pain to walk?”

  The man shook his head. “Good to see you, Gavin. I’m fine.”

  “How did you end up here?” Jenni wondered.

  “We’ll talk about it once we’re all safely out,” said Gavin. “First, Jenni, I want you to escort Andrew out using the same route that we took to get up here. Understood?”

  “But what about you?” Jenni wondered as Gavin walked Andrew over to Jenni.

  “I’ve still got some investigating to do. I need to know who we’re really dealing with,” he answered.

  Jenni didn’t like the idea of navigating the office building without him as her guide, but she was pretty good with directions. Taking Andrew’s arm over her shoulders, Jenni started for the door. She was just about to place her hand on the handle when it suddenly burst open, and Jenni came face-to-face with a stranger holding a gun.

  *****

  “Get down!” Gavin exclaimed. Jenni felt his weight on her as he pulled her to the floor with Andrew. A gun went off. Jenni was too caught up in dropping her head to the floor to know who’s gun it was, but from the loudness of the bang, it didn’t sound like it had a silencer like Gavin’s did. There was a struggle above them as Gavin seized a hold of the attacker and pushed them out of the way of the door.

  “Go!” he shouted to Jenni. “Run!”

  Jenni took Andrew’s hand and escaped the room, racing for the stairwell. Andrew tripped but was quick to reclaim the ground under him as Jenni opened the door leading out and began making her way b
ack downstairs. There was another gunshot from the fourth floor as she headed down to the base level. Jenni forced open the exit leading out of the building and raced down the block. Andrew gasped and huffed to keep up with Jenni’s quick pace and darting steps. She only stopped when they were back near Gavin’s rented car. Andrew dropped his hands to his knees, wheezing.

  “Sorry,” Jenni panted. “I probably could have stopped back there, but...”

  Andrew shook his head. “You did what you were supposed to. And you did well.”

  Jenni looked back at the tall office building in worry. She hoped Gavin would be all right. She wasn’t entirely familiar with agent work, but she didn’t recall them ever getting into serious combat all by themselves.

  “Don’t worry about Gavin,” said Andrew. “He’ll be alright.”

  “How do you two know each other?” Jenni wondered as she looked back at the battered man now leaning against Gavin’s car.

  “It’s a long story. I worked as security for his family. They’re a very wealthy bunch, but due to a disability, I had to give up that life,” said Andrew.

  “I’m sorry to hear that. But if he’s that rich, why is he a cop?”

  Andrew was about to reply, but footsteps neared, and he and Jenni rushed around the other side of the car and ducked in case it was an enemy. A couple seconds later, Gavin showed up, sweating and gasping, but very much okay.

  “Come on, get into the car, both of you! Quickly!” he urged.

  Jenni climbed into the back, and Andrew took the front seat next to Gavin. Gavin tore back down the road as fast as he possibly could.

  “What happened to the guys up there?” Jenni asked.

  “I took care of what I could,” was all Gavin said. “I’m going to drop you back off at the library and then get Andrew to safety.”

  “Don’t worry about me,” Andrew spoke up. “I’ll be fine. Just drop me by the police station.”

  “I’ve already called them. They’re headed out right now,” Gavin explained.

  Andrew didn’t argue. Jenni watched him uncertainly. He seemed to be in serious pain.