MB Chapter 9

Letting out a small breath she heard the elevator door opening and saw Lee walking out of it. "Lee!"

"Amanda, get down!" Lee yelled as the man pointed his gun right at her ready to fire.

Amanda dropped to the floor rolling as close to the wall as she could. She heard the gunshots close to her as a door opened and the woman yelled out when everything had finally went silent. She laid there on the floor with her face down fearing that if she looked up she would see Lee shot or worse.

"Amanda," it was Francine's voice not Lee's she heard.

"Francine, what are you doing here?"

"Saving you and Lee's ass it looks like. Come on let's get those restraints off you." Francine carefully rolled Amanda over and began to undo her wrists. Amanda looked up and down the hall but she didn't see Lee anywhere.

"Where is Lee?"

"He went chasing after some man down the stairwell as I got here and took down this lady who was about to shoot you. Do you know who she is?"

"She is the hostess from the resort restaurant; shouldn't you be helping Lee now?"

"Calhoun is helping him. Do you know what this about?" Francine asked as she helped Amanda to her feet as they headed toward the room across from where she and Lee were staying in.

"Francine, my room is over there." Amanda said as she pointed across the hall.

"Yes, I know but I don't have a key to that room and I want you some place safe." As the two women walked in the room Francine picked up the phone to get a hold of Billy to inform him that they had a dead body on their hands and Amanda back. Amanda looked at the other woman and tried to form some sort of a sentence; she never knew Francine to willingly go out of her way to be nice to her. "Thank you, Francine; I really appreciate it."

"I'm just doing my job; besides Billy wouldn't be the only one to kill me if I helped in losing a civilian worker." Just then there was a knock on the door and Francine opened it to Billy. "Billy, I was just going to call you, we have Amanda back, one dead and Lee and Percy are giving chase to the other man involved."

"Did you get the resort manager too?" Amanda asked.

"Mr. Hudson? I just left his office. I told him I thought Lee brought you here to kill you and wanted tapes of your floor."

"I don't know how he is involved but it was him, the hostess from the dining room, and a man that hit on me at the pool yesterday."

"Hit on you?" Francine said unbelievingly.

"No we just got here, we have no idea what was going on except that you were missing. Stay here Francine come with me." Billy and Francine went back down to the lobby to find that resort manager was gone. They found Martin and told him to get his Agency over to the resort they had a dead body and at least one suspect on the run.

"Make that two Billy and Percy here needs to see a doctor." Calhoun walked over to the three other agents holding his shoulder and looking pretty pissed.

"What happened?" Billy asked as Martin walked behind the front desk and began to make a call to his superior.

"The man went down the stairwell, Lee followed, I was following right behind, and Francine said she had Mrs. King after taking out the lady about to shoot Mrs. King. Once outside I went to flank him so Lee and I would be to cut him off and he fired before I did and I was shot, nothing serious."

The elevator doors opened just then with Amanda walking out into the lobby and scanning around until she saw who she was looking for grateful he was alive and looked unharmed. She went to walk toward him but he caught her first and was checking her over.

"Are you okay? They didn't hurt you did they? Did they give you anything?"

Running her hands up and down his arms she said, "Other than when they knocked me out with I wasn't given anything; they wanted to but I didn't take it and I didn't forget my cover either. I kept telling them I was Mrs. Steadman. That is what I was supposed to do right? Was that right Lee?"

Smiling at hearing her ramble he said, "Yes, that is exactly what you were supposed to do, Amanda. Now let's try and get this wrapped up." As they walked back over to the other agents Lee placed his hand at the small of her back to guide her and also to reconfirm she was really standing next to him.

A swarm of Federal Agents came flooding into the lobby and Lee went back into agent mode and began with informing Martin's boss and colleagues of the situation and where they stood. Martin joined in and explained he might know a few places that Mr. Hudson may have gone to when he left the hotel.

Maxwell Hudson watched from his location as Federal Agents invaded his resort. He knew that he messed up but he was going to rectify the situation before his Russian friends could catch up with him. He sat trying to form a plan when he heard from behind him, "Check mate." The gun fired and Hudson fell over dead. The gentleman from the pool pulled Hudson from the car and got in and drove off.

Later that afternoon when everyone had been debriefed and eaten lunch Billy announced that whatever was going on than the Florida office could handle it and that everyone would be on a plane in the morning to return to DC; Amanda asked, "What about Francine, Sir, isn't she still in danger?"

"We will be keeping a closer eye on her when we return to DC." Amanda smiled knowing that Francine could handle herself but was glad to know the Agency would be there for her as well.

"So, Amanda, what do you say we go do that sightseeing and shopping for your family like we had planned?" Lee asked.

"That sounds wonderful Lee but I think I would rather just go back to the room and rest a while but thank you." She stood and hoped he realized that she didn't want to rest alone.

Upon entering the room she went to the bathroom and began to undress and walked naked to the bed to lie down. Crawling in under the sheets she laid there for what seemed like hours before the door opened and Lee walked in. Coming over to the bed he sat down on the side of the bed and ran a finger down her exposed arm and whispered, "Do you always rest in the afternoon without any clothes on?"

"Only when I am on assignment with you as your wife," she answered before laughing at her own statement.

"Amanda, Billy wants me to get a different room tonight?" He said as he kissed her collarbone.

Taking in a deep breath and pulling the covers back she asked, "What is it that you want?"

Standing Lee removed his shoes and clothing. Getting into bed next to her he lowered his head to kiss her as his hand covered her breast. "I want you right here and right now Amanda King, I want whatever bit of you that you are willing to share with me."

The slow sweet torturous sexual assault began as Amanda took him in her hand and began to stroke him to fullness and then she pulled him to her and guided him in her and Lee couldn't take it and took over. He slowly entered her and withdrew all but the tip of himself then slammed into her then stilled and didn't move making her whimper slightly. "Is this what you want?" He asked as he rotated his hips making her meet his thrust and moan louder.

"Lee," it was more of a plea than anything.

"Yes, Amanda, I want to hear you say it. Is this," he stopped again "what you want?"

"Yes, I want it. Give it all to me and more."

"More you say." Lee withdrew completely from her and rolled her to her stomach. Raising her hips he reached in front of her and toyed with her clitoris and began rubbing until her first orgasm began to hit her and then he slipped in from behind her. His thrusts causing wave upon wave to continue to crash Amanda's system. Lee continued until he felt and heard her final orgasm meet with his and they both collapsed into each other arms.

Lee held her and after a while he said, "Amanda, are you okay?"

"I am more than okay Lee I am wonderful. I had never done that before."

"Never before at all; not even with Joe, Manda?"

"Nope, that was a first for me and it was amazing, Stetson. You really out did yourself on that round."

Amanda went to roll over and kiss him when they heard a knock at the door and they froze then Lee said, "Screw it," and kissed her. He knew the door was locked and a do not disturb sign out so he wasn't worried about being interrupted in his goal to kiss her some more. He wasn't ready to go back to reality and that would happen as soon as one of them opened the door.

The next morning everyone met in the lobby and left together. Amanda sat reading her book she started when they left DC and Francine asked about her reading choice, "Well, Francine it really is the only romance that a woman like me gets in her life so I might as well make the best of what I have."

"What about sharing a room with Lee?" Francine said with a sly look toward the other woman.

"Sharing a room with Lee is as exciting for me as a root canal, Francine." Before Amanda went back to reading her she glanced in Lee's direction only to see his hidden smile and she knew she hadn't hurt his feelings or upset him.

At the airport Lee sat a few seats from Amanda reading the paper while he would steal glances at her as she read her book. He was still wondering how things were going to be when they got back to DC. He knew he that he still didn't want another man to be that close with her but he also couldn't blame her if she found a man to be in her life like she needed and deserved. He wondered if he could be a person she could trust for the long haul; his track record really wasn't in his favor.

Amanda sat reading her book, or at least giving the impression of reading by turning the pages every now and then. Her thoughts were on the man she had spent most of the last two days with in bed. She was so sure at first that she could handle just a casual affair with Lee. Now all she could think about was how she didn't want him to bring that excitement to another woman. She was jealous of just the thought of Lee being with another woman; doing what he did with her.

The announcement of their flight boarding had the five companions standing and walking toward the line to board. Billy noticed how Lee rested his hand at Amanda's back and guided her toward their destination and when standing in line how his hand would rub up and down her back stopping than come back to rest in the small of her back. Billy knew that the two became involved on this assignment. He never thought it would happen; he knew that Lee despite his protest of working with her was very protective of her. He knew that Amanda cared for everyone she came in contact with, even Francine. He was still surprised when Lee slipped the other morning about seeing Amanda leaving the shower and he knew for a fact that Lee never got another room last night like Billy had suggested; leaving him to wonder what a root canal for Amanda must be like.

On the plane Lee and Amanda's seats happen to be next to each other; Lee stepped out of the way and allowed Amanda to sit down next to the window. Amanda took her seat and went to put her seatbelt on and it was stuck, "Lee, could you help me with this please it's stuck."

"Sure, you just need to know how to work it, Amanda." She had a feeling he was making a reference to his suitcase zipper when she went to unzip it for him as they packed their stuff the night before.

"Funny, Stetson, keep it up."

As the plane began to take off he leaned in close to her ear and whispered, "Why don't you keep it up and then we can join the mile high club today before we make it back to DC." Smiling at her and watching her blush made him laugh heartily and deep. "Amanda King, after everything we have done that is what's going to make you blush?"

"If you think I am going to have sex with you inside an airplane bathroom you are crazy."

"I was only joking."

"Lee, you aren't crazy for suggesting it, you are crazy for suggesting it with Francine on this plane." She told him as they both began to laugh.

Lee noticed that as the plane began to descend into Dulles Amanda gripped the armrest until her knuckles were white. "Hey, we're just landing; everything is okay." He placed her hand in his and had her focus on his eyes. She took a deep breath and said, "Hey, could you give me a ride?"

"Sure, where to Arlington?" Lee asked.

"Eventually, I want to talk and finally answer your question now that we are back." She said and as he agreed she just nodded and adverted her eyes away from his; this made a knot form in his stomach and he knew what she was going to say, he just lost another good friend.