Chapter 10 - Enjoying Your Work
Amanda had made it back to the agency and filled Billy in on what Lee had found out. She also mentioned that Lee was upset with Billy for his part in her still being part of the agency. Billy's eyes twinkled as he listened to her go on about how he seemed so disappointed. After she was finished Billy said "Amanda, he will be just fine. He'll get over it. Trust me. Now why don't you go home and enjoy your family since he needs you to be there late tonight, okay?"
"Yes Sir. Thank you Sir." Amanda got up and started to leave Billy's office. She turned before she walked out the door and said "Sir, do you think that Lee will ever accept me working for the agency? I mean Sir; I really enjoy working here and I enjoy working with him. I don't want to have to start every case with him being unhappy about being paired with me. Maybe I should work with someone else."
"Mrs. King, I assure you that if I were to pair you with someone else, Lee would be a lot unhappier. Stop worrying about it. It will be fine."
"Okay, Sir. Thank you Sir." Amanda said as she left.
She spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up the house and then greeted her boys when they got home. Both of them were excited to see that she was home but soon begged to go to the park to play ball with the guys. Amanda agreed as long as they were home by 6pm. She had prepared her famous Meatloaf for dinner and was just taking it out when Dotty and the boys rushed in. "Right on time" She remarked and then said "Everyone go get washed up for dinner, it's ready."
They sat down to a nice dinner that was kept busy with the boys chatter. The boys went up to their rooms afterward to do their homework. Dotty told Amanda that she wasn't feeling well and was going to go to bed early. Amanda took the quiet time to work on paying some of the household bills until it was time to leave for the training camp. She left a note on the counter for her Mother that said she had to go take care of a sick dog.
Amanda arrived at the training camp just after 10:30 and waited outside the window that Lee had asked her to. It was cold standing there and she hoped he wouldn't take too long. Thankfully right around 11pm, she heard Lee call for her. She popped up in the window and startled him. It was fun to do that to him for a change. He handed her the film from his camera and told her to get it back to the agency so that crypto could check it out. She couldn't understand what could possibly be important about a football play and questioned him about it. He insisted that it was important and she said "What do I know? I'm just an assistant agent" and he corrected her by calling her an "apprentice agent." She called him a "purist" but was glad that again he seemed to be accepting her being there. As they were wrapping up their discussion, the coach suddenly appeared yelling for Newcombe. Lee grabbed Amanda and began kissing her in a forceful manner. She always thought that these covers were supposed to be faked but this kiss was real. Amanda was startled by the suddenness of it and tried to break it off but Lee stopped long enough to tell her not to move. She had never had a man kiss her like that. It was gentle but yet forceful at the same time and by the time Amanda let herself begin to enjoy it, Lee broke it off. Her hands had instinctively reached out to touch his arms but when he stopped kissing her, they went back to the window sill and she found herself reeling from the kiss so she grasped the sill until her hands were nearly white. Lee stood smiling very smugly at her and told her that he hoped she got what she came for. She couldn't believe that he seemed to be enjoying what he had done to her and that was when she realized that she was clutching the window sill a little tightly and abruptly pulled her hand away from it. The coach had come from behind them and asked her if she enjoyed her work. She replied "Yes, very much." Lee looked even more smug at her words as he clearly took them to mean that she had enjoyed the kiss. Well she would have enjoyed it more if she had known he was going to do it. As she was driving the film to the agency, she kept replaying the kiss in her mind while trying to sort out her feelings. She touched her finger to her lips as she remembered the electrical current that had passed between them as he kissed her. She couldn't help but think about what it would be like to really kiss Lee Stetson. She couldn't remember ever having that kind of feeling from just kissing a man before; definitely not with Dean. Well it didn't matter because Lee only did it as a cover. It wasn't like he had any kind of reaction from the kiss other than to be proud of himself for getting to kiss her. A playboy like Lee was used to kissing all kinds of women. Amanda was sure he hadn't been affected by the kiss at all. She sure wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of ever talking about it.
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