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Please R&R.

"Steph, are you awake?"

"Yeah, what's up?"

"Nothing," Ranger said. Then he kissed my cheek and pulled me towards him. "How come you're taking me tomorrow night?"

"Because I want you there so he knows that I'm with you and won't go back to him. I'm yours, Carlos."

We pulled into the parking lot of Pino's right at 7. Ranger pulled me out of his truck and kissed me lightly on the lips.

"Are you ready?"

"Yeah, but you need to promise you won't kill him."

"Babe."

"Carlos."

"I promise. But if he tries to win you back I may not be able to control myself." I took his hand and laced his fingers into mine. I moved closer to him and my lips brushed against his as I spoke.

"Even if he tries, I'll never go back." We walked into Pino's like that. Joe stood up when he saw me and his eyes flashed anger when he saw me holding Ranger's hand. We made our way over to his table and sat down. The waitress came and took our orders, then flounced away. We all sat in an uncomfortable silence until the food came 30 minutes later. Joe made meaningless talk with Ranger about the case that RangeMan was working on with the TPD.

"Babe, I've been meaning to ask you. We need a decoy for the take- down set up. It's tomorrow. Can you do it?" I assured him I was capable and saw Joe's eyes narrow. I knew he what he was thinking. He thought it would be too dangerous and that I'd get hurt. The same thing he always says and that's exactly why I'm not with him anymore.

Once we were finished with eating Joe asked if he could see me outside to talk in private. I looked at Ranger and he nodded his head so I got up and followed him outside and stood with my back facing the window.

"Are you really seeing Ranger?"

"Yes."

"Christ, Stephanie. The guys fucking nuts! You'd be better off with me."

"No I wouldn't. We've already tried this before. You need to find a wife that wants the same things as you. We're just too different." Then I turned around, walked inside, grabbed Ranger's hand and pulled him out the door and into his truck. I kissed the nape of his neck and he cranked the engine over and we went back to Haywood. We went to the control room so I could look at the file and his team could brief me on what was going to happen tomorrow night.

I went back upstairs and Ranger shortly followed me. We were both sitting on the couch doing work for a few hours. I decided to go to bed, but 20 minutes later I wasn't asleep and Ranger wasn't with me. I got out of bed to find that he had fallen asleep on the couch. He looked so peaceful asleep and I didn't want to wake him up, so I picked him up to carry him to bed be he was heavier than I thought and we both fell down on the couch. I was on top of him.

"Babe," he growled. "If you wanted me you could have just…" I took the liberty to kiss him while his mouth was open. I slipped my hands down to his washboard abs and I pulled his shirt off. I started kissing my way down the length of his body. When I reached his cargo pants I slowly unbuttoned them and slid them off. I grabbed hold of his length and he flipped me over onto the coffee table and started taking my clothes off. He was going slowly tonight and not leaving and part of my body untouched. He had just gotten inside of me when we heard the door to the apartment being opened. Ranger had just enough time to pull his pants back on while I was sitting on the floor with a blanket wrapped around me by the time Tank walked in. Tank's glance went from Ranger standing in the middle of his apartment, half dressed and with a massive erection, to me, with nothing but a very small blanket covering my nipples to just under my hip bone. I slowly stood up and was about to turn around when Cal and Lester walked in. Their eyes traveled the length of my body. Ranger told them he'd meet them downstairs in 5 minutes to discuss the problem.

Ten minutes later Ranger came back into the apartment, removed his pants, and slid into bed next to me.

"What was that all about?"

"Nothing important. A complete waste of my time. I swear if they weren't remotely good at what they do and weren't apart of the mission tomorrow I'd fire them all for interrupting us."

"Well just because we were interrupted doesn't mean we can't continue." His eyes darkened and I climbed on top of him. Two hours later we were finished and managed to go to sleep.

When I woke up I found a note next to the Rex's aquarium in the kitchen.

Babe,

Had an early meeting. Dial 6 for breakfast. Be dressed and ready for the meeting at 6 tonight. Wear something black and slutty.

I decided to skip breakfast and go catch skips this morning so I could have more time to get ready this afternoon. I went to the elevator and took one of Ranger's cars, then headed to the office. There were 3 new skips in. None of them looked relatively hard and I had one of Ranger's Merry Men following me so I decided to let Lula do the filing.

It was 5:30 by the time I got all of my skips in jail. I called Ranger and let him know I'd be there in 15 minutes to change.

I walked into our apartment and made a beeline for the bedroom closet. I only had a limited amount of time to make myself look slutty. I walked into the bedroom to find a woman sitting on the bed and Ranger coming out of the closet buttoning his pants.

"What the hell is going on?"

TBC…

Hehe. I probably won't be able to update until Friday. Hope you enjoyed this chapter.