DISCLAIMOR: I don't own any of the characters in this story but Callie Taylor.. The rest I'm just having fun with...

-Chapter Five-

Callie & Bobby

Callie wasn't asleep. She pretended to be so Ranger.. would quit asking her questions and let her think. Hearing the news that Drew had escaped from prison was bad enough.. But to find out that the man who had been sharing her bed for the last few months.. The man who she had fallen in love with, who made her feel so safe, so protected and so loved.. had just used her to gather information.. Was almost to much to deal with.

But she had to know the truth. She had to hear it from his own lips before she would believe it to be true.

He was sitting there in the same chair Ranger had moved to the side of the bed when he was questioning her. Callie opened her eyes to see Bobby looking at her. At first she thought she saw some tenderness reflecting back at her, but then the cold look was back and she wondered if she had just been seeing things.

"Was it all a lie Bobby?" Callie's soft voice cut into the silence in the room. "Did you have any feelings for me at all? Or was I just a means to an end."

"It's what I do," he said quietly, getting up and turning away so she couldn't see the look of pain his lies made him feel. "I hunt down scum like your brother and bring them to justice...using whatever means it takes to get the job done. In this case.. You. We knew sooner or later he would try to contact you.. So we decided to put someone near you to keep tabs on you and grab him when he came to see you."

"And that someone was you. I hope they pay you enough for prostituting your body for the good of the job." she sneered feeling like a foolish idiot for falling for his lies. "So tell me the truth.. was sleeping with me part of the deal? Or was that just one of the perks of the job? Was I any good or did you just pretend I was someone else the whole time you were inside me?"

"Sleeping with you was a mistake that never should have happened," he replied coldly, turning to face her. His handsome features held a trace of anger. Anger at himself or her, she wondered. "I was only suppose to follow you around and keep an eye out for your brother. Then nab him when he came near.. But you spotted me following you so I had to come up with some other reason to be there. Pretending to be interested in you seem the best way to go. It allowed me to get closer to you then we could have ever hoped."

"Pretending to be interested.." she couldn't believe what she was hearing. Her eyes searched his face as if trying to find him in some lie, but the dark blue eyes that stared back at her were icy cold. There was none of the warmth and love she had witness there before. This man she didn't recognize. "I guess I got my answer. I thought women were the only ones who faked it.Was learning to please a woman part of your spook training or just something you pickup up along the way seducing little fools like me?"

He was about to do something that he knew was going to hurt her deeply, but he didn't see any other way. He had a job to do. He couldn't let his personal feelings get in the way. It was killing him inside knowing he was going to have to hurt her, when all he wanted was to take her in his arms and make all this go away. He wanted the life he'd been living for the last two months. Wanted it with her. But unless he could prove she was innocent of the charges they wanted to bring against her.. He didn't see how he could keep leading her on. He needed to cut the ties now. Even if it felt like thrusting a knife into his own heart.

"Stop it Callie!" Bobby looked angrier still. "It was just a job. It wasn't personal.. But if you really need to know.. Hell yes I enjoyed myself. You were good baby. Fresh and innocent was kind of a turn on.. and those little kitten like sounds you made when I was buried inside you... made me hard as hell. I didn't have to fake it. In fact seeing you bound to that chair is given me ideas... How about a quickie before Ranger comes back. What do you say..? One for the road..? Or how about old times sake! Is that what you want to hear? IS it?"

His words cut deep, like a knife slicing away large chucks of her heart. Her breath caught as a lump of emotion seem to settle there. Not even the pain she had felt when Drew's knife had been thrust inside her over and over, compared to the pain Bobby's words made her feel at that moment.

"I've been such a fool," she hissed softly, feeling like the world's biggest idiot. "You were good. I fell for your lies like Bait on a hook. I actually thought you cared as much for me as I did for you. I opened myself up to you and told you things I'd never told anyone else.. I trusted you.. but to you I was just a job. An easy mark."

She gave a short angry laugh. "You know.. if you or your boss had just come to me and asked me what I knew about my brother and his friends... I would have been more then willing to tell you everything I knew about them," she informed him, "I'm so tired of looking over my shoulder waiting for one of his friends to be there with a knife or gun ready to finish what Drew tried to do to me. I -want- my life back. To be free again to do what I want to do without fear. Without lies... Had you come to me and been honest... I would have given you all the records I stole from him dealing with his business..."

She looked at him, blue eyes filled with disappointment and broken dreams. Tears fell unchecked down her cheek as she watched him turn away from her.

"Tell your boss to get back in here and I'll answer his questions," her voice held no emotion. "I'll say this just once right now that I have never once sent or received an e-mail from Drew.. Nor have I ever gone to see him in prison.. and if you can't or won't believe that... Tough shit.. Right now I don't give a damn and you can go straight to hell."

Bobby went to the door, remoted it open and stuck his head outside. "She's asking for you." He told Ranger and cut a quick look to the Woman standing beside him. "Said she'll answer your questions now.. but that I can go to hell... I don't think she loves me any more."

"I'm sure you'll get over it," Ranger said softly as their eyes met and an one of these guy type messages pass between them. Bobby knew he was in for a talking too.

Stephanie shot an angry look at Bobby then pushed past him and entered the room. She moved quickly to Callie's side and began yanking at the leather straps until the girl was free of her bounds.

"It's gonna be alright now Callie.. I'm here and I'll make sure they don't hurt you gain..." her voice was soothing, but Callie wasn't having any of it.

"Too late.." Callie sobbed. "Between Drew and Bobby... I just don't care any more... Both are liars. I don't know which one is worse. Don't care... Let's just get this over with..."

She turned to Ranger, totally ignoring Bobby who was standing by the door. "What do you want to know?"

To be continued... Next up.. Stephanie helps Ranger get the answers...