Chapter 9-In-depth Interview
"Sudden Death"
"Okay, I mean, what do I know? I'm only an assistant agent."
"Apprentice agent," Lee corrected with a grin. He found himself unable to resist goading her a little.
"Purist," Amanda muttered, but then in a more chipper tone, asked, "Is there anything else I can do?"
Lee's head abruptly turned as he heard a voice behind him, "Yeah, this," he said as he reached for her.
At hearing the voice, Amanda began, "Oh, n-" but her words were halted by Lee's lips on hers, his hand on the back of her neck pulling her to him as he tangled his fingers in her hair. She couldn't help the moans that escaped her at the feel of his mouth on hers, stirring the fire within her that only he could. She slid her hands up to his arms about to move them further up to his chest and was just beginning to really enjoy the firm pressure of his lips against hers when it was gone.
"I hope you got all you came for, Mrs. King, interview-wise, that is," Lee said loudly to her for the coach's benefit, but fixed her with a mischievous grin and a wink.
She pulled her hands abruptly from where she'd rested them on his arms. She was startled for a moment by the fact that the kiss had been about protecting his cover, not about his desire to kiss her. Even though she was irritated by it, she couldn't help but be a little unnerved by the way that Lee was grinning at her as if he wanted to devour her whole.
"Enjoy your work, do you?" the coach questioned her from behind Lee.
Amanda couldn't resist toying with Lee a little the way that he'd just toyed with her. Smiling broadly, she said, "Yes, very much." When she saw Lee nodding toward her with that infuriating grin, making her very warm in the cool night air, she then turned her smile to Lee and said, "Thank you so much." When his smile just became even wider, she went on, "I have a deadline to meet."
"What was that all about?" the coach demanded as Amanda crept away.
"That's...just...uh...good rapport with the press," Lee responded. "I promised her an in-depth interview." He grinned salaciously, however, inwardly, he cringed, hating the idea that the coach would have that kind of idea about Amanda in his mind, but it couldn't be helped. He had to protect his cover above all else, at least until he got to the bottom of things.
Amanda chuckled slightly at hearing these words as she walked away. "In-depth interview," she murmured with a smile. She hadn't made it very far before she head Lee's voice in the dark.
"Amanda," Lee hissed once he'd finally escaped from the coach intense scrutiny. "Amanda, you still out here?" He'd seen the startled look on her face when he'd kissed her and felt the need to explain, not to mention that that kiss and the way she'd responded to it had stirred an ache in him that he knew would keep him from sleeping until it had been eased.
Amanda, still wanting to play with him a bit for the way that he'd played with her, trotted away toward the locker rooms where she'd first seen Lee earlier in the day. She was careful to make certain that he'd seen her. She'd always heard from the girls in the steno pool that Lee liked the chase and she couldn't wait to see just how much that was true. Would he chase her? Was their kiss weighing on his mind as much as it was hers? Had it affected him the same way, leaving him with an empty feeling of wanting more? She didn't know, but she planned to find out.
What the hell is she doing? Lee thought as he followed behind her. I know she heard me calling for her. "Amanda!" he called louder this time. "Dammit," he grumbled as he hurried to try to catch up with her when he watched her enter the darkened locker room. He cautiously entered the room behind her, looking around for her, trying to figure out where exactly she'd gone. When he saw no sign of her, he began to get more frustrated than their thwarted kiss had left him. "Amanda," he called again at not seeing her. He walked by a bench where he found her jacket and purse, but no still, there was no sign of her in person.
"Looking for me," Amanda crooned in a low, raspy voice behind him as she placed her hands on his sore shoulders and pushed firmly down on them to urge him to sit on the bench in front of her.
Lee jumped, startled by the contact from behind him. "What are you doing?" he questioned uneasily as he began to turn toward her.
Amanda kept a firm grip on his shoulders. "Mm-mm, don't turn around," she whispered as she pushed again to urge him downward. "When we're undercover, you're not supposed to look at me, remember?"
"Oof," Lee groaned as he landed on the bench. With his sore muscles keeping him from fighting her, he was too weak to protest much further. His groan of pain soon turned into one of pleasure as Amanda expertly worked at the tense muscles of his neck and shoulders. "Oh, that feels good." Her hands on him felt incredible, soothing not only his battered muscles, but began stoking that internal fire within him in a way that only she could.
"It could feel a lot better if we get this bulky sweater off you," Amanda suggested as she tugged at the bottom of it, encouraging him to raise his arms so she could pull it off. "What is it with you and the layers, anyway?" She shook her head. How many times did they have to have this talk anyway?
Lee turned toward her and retorted, "Hey, you just said you didn't like the vests and I'm not wearing a vest."
"Well, you're not wearing the sweater now, either," Amanda parried pointedly as she tossed the offending garment aside, and then did the same with the polo shirt he wore underneath it. With those thick barriers out of the way, she began to knead at his shoulders again, relishing the low groans emanating from his as she did so.
"Ohhhh," Lee groaned. He found that the warm pressure of her hands on him was both exhilarating and exciting him, especially after the kiss they'd just shared. "God, Amanda, you are way too good at that." How exactly had she gotten so good at that, he wondered. Was this another thing that she had done for her ex-husband. He quickly tossed that thought aside. He did not want go down the path to imagining what else she might have done with him. He leaned into the gentle pressure of her hands and decided to just enjoy it while it lasted.
Amanda leaned in close as she continued her ministrations, "You know what you really need,' she whispered low in his ear.
"Hmmm?" Lee murmured, half-question, half-sigh of contentment. Amanda stopped what she was doing, walked around to face him, then knelt in front of him, her hands slowly sliding up his thighs toward the button of his jeans. "Amanda," he hissed as her fingers barely brushed his manhood. She wasn't going to do what he thought she was going to do...was she?"
Amanda, thoroughly enjoying the look of anticipation on his face, took his hands in hers to urge him up. "What you need is a nice, hot shower. That'll ease those sore muscles in a hurry."
"I've already had my shower," Lee told her with a grin as he rose, throwing the words she'd used to deflect the horny football players earlier back in her face.
"Oh, but this would be strictly a therapeutic shower," Amanda teased as she led him toward the showers.
Lee pulled his hands from her grasp, pushed her roughly against the nearby lockers, and growled low in her ear, "It would be more therapeutic if you joined me in that shower," just before he lowered his lips to her neck.
Amanda squealed in delight both at the contact with his lips on her skin and at her ability to get him right where she wanted him. "I...I...uh suppose I could take one for the team." She gasped as she felt Lee's hands working the buttons on her blouse loose and his hands caressing the bare skin beneath. Before she knew it, he had relieved her of both her blouse and her bra and had one nipple in his mouth while his hand was kneading the other. "Oh, Lee," she moaned with a shudder before pushing him away slightly and nodded and said firmly, "Shower." She then stepped out of her heels before moving to unfasten his jeans, her fingers just lightly grazing him. She gained a great thrill from teasing him as she pushed his jeans and boxers down to his ankles.
"God, Amanda, what are you trying to do to me," Lee groaned. The anticipation was building and he couldn't help wishing to God that she would just touch him already. How much more could a guy take of her teasing before it would be too much to bear?
Amanda nodded downward, "Shoes," she ordered.
Lee sighed and obediently untied his sneakers, toed them off, and then kicked his pants and boxers aside, "You satisfied now?" he asked with his hands poised on his hips as he stood naked in front of her.
"Mm-mm," Amanda shook her head as she began running her tongue along her upper lip to continue enticing him. "Not yet. Someone promised me an in-depth interview, Mr. Newcombe."
"You heard that?" Lee questioned. Was that why she was slowly torturing him to death? When Amanda nodded, he crooned in a husky voice, "Well, I think that can be arranged," as he reached for her, crushing her against him as he captured her lips with his own in a searing, open-mouthed kiss that took her breath away while he dropped her skirt to the floor. He then moved his mouth to nip at her earlobe, knowing that it drove her crazy. "See how much easier it is when you wear skirts," Lee murmured against her skin as he ran his hands up her thighs and hooked his fingers in her panties to yank them down.
"Oh, much easier," Amanda agreed as he began to stroke her. She found herself giving into the sensation for a moment until she remembered her ultimate goal. She wriggled out of his grasp and sprinted to the shower.
"Amanda," Lee groaned in frustration as he heard her turn the water on. He shook his head at her brutal teasing yet he knew he'd been left with no choice but to follow her. As he stepped into the already steam-filled shower, he paused for a moment and his breath caught in his throat at seeing her wet, naked form before him. Her back was to him, displaying her taut bottom, the curve of her waist, and he found himself mesmerized by the water trickling down her back.
Knowing he was behind her, she goaded him in a sultry tone, "Are you coming?"
"Not yet," he responded mischievously as he reached for her hips and pushed her up against she shower wall. He pressed his erection against her as he clamped his lips down hard on her neck and slipped one finger into her causing her to cry out. "Is this in-depth enough for you?" He whispered low in her ear.
"Not yet," she repeated his words as she sighed at the feeling of him stroking her inside. She pushed back against him just enough to free herself, turned, dropped to her knees and guided him into her mouth.
"Ohhhh," Lee groaned in a combination of surprise and enjoyment. "You are way too good at that too," he complimented in wonder her as he threw his head back at the feeling of her suckling him, "Oh, Amanda." When the pleasure became too intense and knowing that he was going to lose it way too soon, he yanked roughly on her hands, pulled her to her feet and pinned her against the wall again.
"Don't you want me to finish what I started? Isn't that what a good apprentice agent should do? See it through to the end?"
"I did promise you an in-depth interview," Lee reminded her in a husky voice as he lifted her up and plunged into her.
"Oh, Lee," she gasped at feeling his hardness inside her again. She pushed her back up against the wall to push her hips downward against him as she locked her legs around his hips and her arms around his neck.
"In-depth enough for you now," Lee queried as he drove up into her again.
"Oh, yes," she replied as she dug her hands into her shoulders while meeting him thrust for thrust. "Oh, it's so, so in-depth."
"Yes, it is," he said in response as he tugged at her hips. He continued pushing himself into her as deep as he could in long, slow strokes as he captured her lips again, probing her mouth with his tongue as he continued to probe her body with his shaft.
Amanda moaned into his mouth, a flurry of sensations taking her over, the hot water cascading over her, his tongue tangling with hers while he relentlessly plunged inside her until she felt herself tumbling over the edge. She tore her mouth from his, clutched at his shoulder and cried out, "Lee! Oh, Lee!"
Hearing her screaming his name and feeling her nails digging into his skin while her body tensed with spasms around him, sent Lee spiraling out of control right along with her. "Amanda," he growled as he felt himself exploding within her, pumping his warm seed inside her until there was nothing left, but their heavy breathing and the mutual shaking of their bodies that were still locked together as they clung tightly to each other and rode out the wave of release. Once his breathing had slowed to a more normal rate, he let her down on still-shaky legs and with an impish grin, joked, "I hope you got all you came for," echoing his earlier words.
Amanda grinned back and echoing her own words, responded, "Thank you. I have a deadline to meet," as she slipped past him and back into the locker room.
"Hey, wait a minute," Lee said in irritation. He turned off the water and followed her to find her toweling her wet hair. "Was that all this was about? Just playing your cover?"
"Well, you wanted me to get that film back to the agency, didn't you?" she reminded him as she slung the towel over her shoulders and began to pull her clothes back on. "I'm just being a good assistant agent...right?"
"Yeah...right...the film," Lee mentally cursed himself for his orders to her, wishing to God she could stay longer. Curfew for the players be damned, he'd like nothing better than to drag her back to his bed and spend the rest of the night making love to her, maybe even tease her a bit to pay her back for so mercilessly teasing him.
"So, I'm just gonna'..." She gesture dramatically to indicate her state of half-dress. It made no sense considering the fact that she'd just been screaming out his name while he'd been screwing her senseless, but she was suddenly feeling uncomfortable with the way he was looking at her. It was as if he were a hungry wolf and she were a defenseless lamb. That look told her all too well, that if he had his way, he'd spend the rest of the night devouring her. She shivered a bit at that thought. As much as she might enjoy it, she did have to get back to the agency and at some point, back home to her children.
"Right," Lee nodded. Disappointment was flooding through him as he watched her dress. He felt a slight bit of amusement as well though, thoroughly amazed that she'd just made him do the unthinkable. He never in all his life had chased after a woman the way that she'd made him chase her tonight. If a woman didn't show an interest right away, he usually just moved on to the next one. For the umpteenth time, he couldn't help but think Amanda was...different.