The moon was rising over the lake when Eliot woke up. He looked down at the women in his arms, God she was so beautiful! He had only meant to kiss her, not lose control and make love to her. He had only fell in love with one other women, and after that he'd sworn never again. Was Sophie and Hardison right, was he falling for her? He was confused on what he was feeling, it had been a long time since he let anyone close to him. Eliot got up, and picked Mack up and carried her to the bedroom, gently laying her on the bed. She frowned in her sleep, he just starred at her for a few minutes before climbing in beside her and pulling her into his arms. He couldn't help but think this is where she belonged.
"Please...please...stop..."
Eliot's hold tightened around Mack and pulled her closer to him 'Sshhhh, you're safe. I have you." He placed a kiss on her temple.
Mack shivered in her sleep but settled down. Eliot opened his eyes and looked down at her. He wanted to banish all demons that were terrorizing her. He hated that Jones was putting her through this. He knew that they were going to have a serious conversation about her running yesterday, he was still seriously pissed at her for scaring the hell out of him.
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Mack woke up to the smell of coffee, she laid in bed remembering the night before with Eliot. He was down in the kitchen making her coffee and probably breakfast. She was wondering how long she could lay there and fake being asleep before he came up stairs. She was sure that she was going to have a conversation with Eliot that was going to suck. She heard him coming up the stairs, she closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep. Eliot pushed her hair away from her face, she didn't move hoping to buy some time to gather her thoughts.
"I know you're faking being asleep, so you might as well open your eyes so we can talk."
"Oh crap" Mack slowly opened her eyes and looked up at Eliot. "So what do you want to talk about?"
"Get dressed and come down stairs for breakfast."
Eliot silently left the room. Crap, crap crap! This isn't going to be easy. Not only do we have to discuss me running, we have to discuss my plans on getting my life back in control without help, oh and about what happened last night. I hope he made a bunch of coffee because I'm going to need it.
"Do you want to hurry up Mack...breakfast is getting cold!"
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Tobias had been up since five am, Mackenzie had been in the wind for over sixteen hours. No one knew where she'd disappeared to, he had all his men looking for her. He was hoping that Eliot Spencer would make his job easier and find her and bring her back. As soon as she was back, he could put his plan into action.
If Nate's hacker was any good he would have also gotten the hospital's security cameras footage, gotten facial recognition on Ethan Mc Quire and the first step of his plan would be complete. Tobias pulled the 9 mm gun out of his desk drawer and smiled, it won't be long now Mackenzie my sweet.
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Mackenzie walked down the stairs and set down at the bar across from Eliot. She took a long drink of coffee and decided she might as well cowgirl up and just start.
"I'm sorry I left the hospital without telling anyone."
"Why did you run? You promised me you wouldn't?"
Mack looked down and a tear slipped out of her eye, she exhaled slowly. "When I woke up yesterday, the hospitals administer, HR, and lawyer were waiting for me. They strongly suggested I take a 6 month leave of absence to get my life in order. It became too much." Mack got up and walked over to the windows and looked at the lake "I didn't care anymore. I needed to get out, away and think. I needed to be by myself. Tobias had taken everything from me in the last nine months and I was done."
Eliot had walked up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist. "Don't ever do that to me again. I was out of my mind with worry...I didn't know if you were safe, or if he had you. God if anything ever happened to you..."
Eliot was interrupted by his phone ringing. It was Hardison telling him he had an ID of the kidnapper at the hospital from yesterday. Eliot and Mack finished breakfast and packed up and left for Boston.