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This chapter is shorter than my normal, I'll do my best to make it up to you in my next chapter.
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Steph's POV
The next two days we walked along the beach and did more shopping. We spent time curled together on the couch watching movies, plus our time cuddled together in the bedroom. We had spent a lot of time talking when away from the hotel.
Our talks ranged from things that didn't particularly matter to emotional talks, we were still waiting to hear from Mr. Francs so we could get this mission going. We had bought some art for the walls at the house we purchased and ordered our gym equipment. Ranger had contacted someone he knew to set up the security system.
Everything was coming together I liked the hotel enough but would prefer the house much more. There was a possibility it would be bugged too but there we would be able to find more places they hadn't bugged and that's only if they found out where we were living.
I had just sat down on the couch with a cup of coffee when the hotel phone rang. I leaned over to answer it as Ranger came out of the bedroom.
"Hello." I answered.
"Mrs. Moreno is it possible to meet with you and Mr. Moreno today in say two hours at the same suite we met at previously."
"That sounds great." I told him.
"I'll see you then." He hung up.
I looked at Ranger, "Meeting with Mr. Francs, two hours, same hotel and suite as the last." He nodded and walked into the bedroom to get ready.
I had already showered and straightened my hair, so that left picking out clothes and a doing my makeup. I decided on a black strapless jumpsuit with wide legs, I paired it with Louboutin Jem Suede Peep Toe Sling backs with a 6" heel. I added Gold and Black Diamond Hoop Earrings with a matching necklace.
For makeup I did a bronze eye shadow, black eyeliner, and black mascara. I used a natural pink gloss on my lips and a light amount of powder. I took one last look in the mirror and I liked what I saw. I walked into the bedroom and caught a glimpse of Ranger in a black Gucci suit with a white shirt and black Gucci shoes.
We were the picture of money, which is exactly what we needed to be. He held my hand and walked us out to the car he had rented. He helped me in and buckled my seatbelt before going around and getting in on the driver's side.
We drove to the hotel in a comfortable silence wondering how this meeting was going to go. We had more people arriving tomorrow to help us get a line on the mini orphanages and do surveillance on Mr. Franc so we could find out who else was involved. We hadn't been here long and luckily I liked France since this would be a fairly long mission.
We arrived at the hotel and went into meet with Mr. Franc; we were escorted to his room where he was once again standing at the door waiting for us.
"Mr. and Mrs. Moreno, so nice to see you again."
"It is nice to see you as well, Mr. Franc." He directed us to the same table we had set at last time.
"We believe we have two children that meet what you are looking for, I have a folder for each of them for you to go over." He handed us each a folder and we both proceeded to look over them.
Part of what we needed to do was find fault with each child so we could catch Mr. Franc in the process of obtaining more children to try and satisfy us.
The folder I looked at was a Puerto Rican/Caucasian baby, it was two weeks old and there wasn't much info on the parents. Ranger and I traded folders and his was a Mexican/Caucasian baby, four days old and there was a bit more info on the parents but still not much.
Ranger took the folder from and handed it back to Mr. Franc, "We would like a child that is Cuban and Caucasian." Mr. Franc nodded.
"I don't have any meeting that right now but I can probably have one within two weeks." We both nodded.
"Call when you do, we should still be in France." Mr. Franc nodded and we left the hotel.
We met some of the guys that would be doing surveillance at a large restaurant and gave them what info we had as of now. We were still working and hoping to find something out. We had a man that had just been able to get into the organization, he would be giving us more information until we had enough to take down the baby smuggling ring.
We ate a rather large lunch with the men, talked about various things they were staying at random hotels throughout Marseille and would be asking around about missing children. It seems most of the missing children are under the age of five.
After our lunch, we went over to the house to check things out. The security system was almost finished and if everything went as we hoped, we would be moving in, in a couple of days. After a walk thru of the house, we headed back to the hotel, I needed to check in with my Dad and Ranger needed to check in with Rangeman.
After our respective calls were done, I pulled off my shoes and laid down in the bed for a little nap, I was beyond exhausted. I fell asleep shortly after my head was on the pillow and was woken up with feather soft kisses on my neck and face.
"Mmmmm…." I moaned.
A chuckled, "Babe." Was the response.
I snuggled back down only to have the blankets jerked off of me. I finally sat up, rubbing the sleep from my eyes, "What?" I know I Could have been nicer but being nice when being woke up is overrated.
"Get dressed, I'm ordering dinner." I nodded and crawled out of the bed and made my way to the bathroom.
I changed into a VS Cami and matching boyshorts in black. I walked into the living room and sat down on the couch while Ranger ordered our food. 30 minutes later our food was brought up we sat down at the table and ate our delicious meals.
After dinner, I felt like going for a walk, Marseille was pretty during the day but at night it was absolutely beautiful. I decided to throw on some shorts and a tank, Ranger was dressed in khaki shorts and a painted on t shirt.
We left the hotel and began walking, once we were a good distance from the hotel we started talking.
"How long do you think this mission will take?" I asked him.
"Not sure." I nodded.
"You ready to move into the house?" He questioned.
"Of course, the hotel is nice enough but the house will be better and a lot more private." He nodded.
"How about you, are you ready to move into the house?"
"Babe, the security will be a lot better." Go figure he turned this into something about security.
"France is beautiful." I told him.
"It is I'd like to take you to Paris at some point, maybe tomorrow."
"That sounds fun." He nodded, "Will we be shopping?" I asked.
"Is there any chance I could get out of it?"
I laughed, "Absolutely not." He gave me a half smile.
We held hands as we continued to walk around. Ranger was scanning everything around him, me, I was scanning but also taking in the beauty. As we made our way back to the hotel, we saw a park and stopped there setting on a bench.
Ranger wrapped his arm around me and pulled me to him.
"What's up Ranger?" I asked I could feel the tension in his body.
"Babe."
"Ranger." He chuckled.
"What's going to happen when we get back stateside?" He wondered.
"I don't know, but we have plenty of time to figure it out. We'll be here for at least two more weeks possibly months, likely months, and we have that house so when the mission is over we can take some down time." He nodded.
"So Paris, tomorrow?" I said.
He chuckled, "Babe."
"I'm going to take that as a yes and we do whatever I want while in Paris." I smiled my biggest smile and Ranger winked at me.
We got from the bench and headed back to the hotel for the night. I went straight to the bedroom and started getting ready to go to bed. I took my makeup off, changed into a silk night dress with nothing under it and pulled my hair into a messy ponytail.
I lay down and Ranger wasn't far behind me in crawling into bed.