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Chapter 5

"Damn. What's the dress code for the day?"

Stephanie was working full time at RangeMan these days, dividing her time between RangeMan and shopping as it suited her. She was still bringing in skips for Vinnie, but she was doing a lot of other jobs now as well. Only bounty hunting wasn't challenging enough for her skills, so she trained some guys on how to do searches and then started serious security work. I certainly wasn't about to complain. I had enough money for the both of us and her shopping always resulted in a trip to Victoria's Secret. What more could I wish for? But her question about the dress code was justified as I had had her sitting in on meetings before, some of which she'd had to dress up for.

"Uniform." She would carry either way.

"Who's this guy you're interviewing and why do you want me to sit in?" She looked up at me, curious to hear my explanation.

"We're talking to Aki, or Phoenix as he's called now, and he's 28. That's about normal age to start at RangeMan. He's a potential employee and I want your spidey sense to feel him out. If you've got a bad feeling about him, I won't hire him, otherwise he's on." Guessing by the look on her face it was a safe thing to say that she hadn't expected that one. Besides, officially she was the main person responsible for new hires, but we'd decided to make decisions like this always with the entire core team. Especially after the disaster Sam had brought us.

"Who else is gonna sit in?"

"Whole core team."

"Who's gonna take notes and stuff? I hope you don't expect me to play secretary." That one gave me some serious ideas. Steph in a short skirt, hiked up around her waist, wearing only a garter and thigh highs underneath and bent over my desk. Damn, I was losing track here.

"Not necessary. I'll jot down the most important stuff. The rest we can get from the tapes."

"Are you gonna tell me more about him?"

"Nope. We want you to observe all these little things we usually don't notice. For that to be possible you can't get more than his name and age or your vision might get obstructed." I hoped she would understand the reasoning, as I didn't particularly want to discuss it any further.

"Okay, I can do that."

"Good, now let's get breakfast." I had heard Ella come in, undoubtedly leaving us something healthy for breakfast, but Steph would like it nevertheless. We had even had tofu before, although she didn't know it, believing that it was chicken nuggets. When I had told her afterward,she had been surprised, having enjoyed dinner immensely. After that she told Ella to cook whatever she felt like, she would eat it. My men had been laughing their asses off on that one, until I had Ella do tofu burgers for everyone. You just couldn't tell if you were eating meat or not. That had surprised them, but now they understood Steph.

By now we had gotten dressed in our uniforms, foregoing the utility belts for the moment. Steph went to tame her hair while I made my way into the kitchen to start the coffee and read the paper.

Ten minutes later Steph joined me. I looked up at her and appreciated her picture once again. She made her uniform look good, the tight French plaid she had her hair in adding to the powerful air surrounding her. She looked like she was ready to kick some ass.

"Hungry?"

"You gotta ask?"

She settled down beside me and dug in, chatting happily about the newest developments in the Burg and her family. She didn't expect me to answer and that was fine with me, but it didn't deter her. I knew that she thought I wouldn't really listen, but I was listening, content to hear her talk. She knew that she would have to sit still and listen in the meeting, something that was really hard for her, so she tried to get a head start on her talking.

Breakfast finished, we went to get the belts and then went down to the third floor to meet Phoenix and my core team.

"You ready for action, Babe?"

"Yup." Steph was bouncing on the balls of her feet, her excitement obvious. When we made our way to the conference room Tank and Lil were outside, waiting for us. With their mere presence they let me know that everything was all right and that Lester and Bobby were with Phoenix for now.

All four of them had looked through Phoenix' file. I had done the research myself, as I wanted Steph to observe unobstructed. We went in and shook hands while I made the instructions. When I introduced Steph I just said her name, not mentioning anything else about her. She looked different than usual and I hoped like hell he wouldn't recognize her as the Bombshell Bounty Hunter. I was afraid that if he mentioned it she might bite off his balls.

The guys nodded hello and we settled into our respective chairs, Steph on my right side, Phoenix opposite me. He was eying all of us curiously but didn't say anything. I was sure we were a sight to behold. All six of us in black and with heavy boots, armed to the teeth. But what was more confusing for him was probably Steph, a beautiful woman between dangerous men. He had no idea just how dangerous Steph was.

We exchanged the usual pleasantries and than I started right in. "Phoenix, why RangeMan?"

He had asked me to call him Phoenix the first time I talked to him and I respected his wish, just like everyone respected Tank's wish not to call him by his given name, something I understood completely.

"I got out of the service and was looking for a job. Heard you were the best." My company was the best and with a military background he would fit right in.

"Which part?"

"Air Force." That would explain the nickname.

Steph was snickering next to me and Phoenix threw her an irritated glance. She was most likely amused about the short and terse answers he gave.

Tank spoke up. "Any other experiences that would explain why you want to work with us? Or specialties?"

"I have worked security and body guarding before. And I'm pretty sure I can learn anything I might need to know about computers quickly." Good answer, so I nodded. On to other important questions.

"Family? Wife? Anyone else in close relation?"

"My parents live in Boston and the distance between us is necessary. Neither wife nor girlfriend." He wasn't offended at the question, knowing why I was asking. But when he told us his marital status he glanced at Steph. Noticing it she moved her hands in a way that the sunlight broke in the diamond in her engagement ring. The message came across rather quickly.

"Strengths?" Just as I was asking Steph brought her left hand down, settling it on my thigh and squeezing gently. My reaction to her touch was instantaneous.

"Good with foreign languages. I speak and write Russian, French, German and Greece and am working on Swahili. And I'm pretty good with knifes."

"What do you consider 'pretty good'?"

"Trust me, you don't want to know the details." Good enough, but maybe he could teach Steph another thing or two. Just like she was teaching the core team how to throw darts and knives after the near miss our mission had nearly become.

"Weaknesses?"

He looked slightly embarrassed but sucked it up and answered anyway. "I had a rather wild youth. Drugs, alcohol, B&E."

Steph's hand was moving from my thigh to my groin, rubbing my boner through my cargos.

"Any trouble since you joined?"

"No." I knew that he was telling us the truth.

"Okay." Phoenix looked up in surprise, so I went on to elaborate. "Most of us had a rough youth. We don't judge people by what they did when they were young and stupid."

That was when Steph spoke up, catching him by surprise as she hadn't said anything before. "Here, it only counts who you are now and how you perform. Your past formed who you are today."

Phoenix looked at her, his gaze steady and you could see that he was thinking something over. "What's your role in this interview today, if you don't mind me asking?"

What she said next surprised me. "Gotta make sure you aren't a potential stalker." She snickered at her own joke. Then she glanced at me, letting me know she was okay with Phoenix being hired. I caught the eyes of my core team, receiving the same message. That settled it, Phoenix was hired if he still wanted the job which was very likely.

Meanwhile Phoenix stared at Steph, totally baffled and really surprised at her honesty. "Stalker?" The huge question mark was shining over his head.

Steph laughed, showing us her beautiful smile. "Do you have any idea who I am?"

Phoenix shook his head.

"Ever heard of the Bombshell Bounty Hunter?" Tank, Bobby, Lil and Lester were watching curiously as the scene unfolded in front of them. Phoenix was about to meet the real Steph, the woman underneath, for the first time. He didn't see her when she was stamped on by nearly everybody, when she had to defend herself against her mom and her so called failures. For Steph to open up to him like this meant a lot and it told all of us just how much she must already trust him. I just hoped that Phoenix would understand in time just how big this present she was about to give him really was.

"Yeah." he looked at Steph again and you could see the understanding dawn in his eyes. "You're the Bombshell Bounty Hunter? Wow!"

"I guess that means you know about my little stalker problem?" I wouldn't call it little, but oh well.

"Yes."

"See, I get this feeling around certain people that tells me if they mean me harm. Ranger wouldn't want to hire someone who might stalk me in the future, so we scan the potential hires."

Despite the conversation she was having with Phoenix she was never letting up the pressure she was bringing onto my hard shaft. Not one to feel left out I brought my hand to the juncture of her legs and started rubbing against the seam of her cargoes. I looked at her and saw the heat blazing in her eyes - proof enough for me that I was hitting the right spot.

Phoenix' eyes were switching back and forth between the two of us, obviously trying to figure out what was going on. My men were just grinning, they had probably guessed.

"What are your food preferences if you don't mind me asking?"

The question startled him, but my men had to laugh. It wasn't a professional interview anymore anyway, so I didn't see it necessary to cut in. We already had decided to hire him, now we just wanted to get to know him better. But at this question I had to work to hide a smirk myself.

"Uhm, why do you ask?"

"Just humor me, okay?"

"I'm a vegetarian."

"Sweets?"

"No."

"Damn. Welcome to the club of health nuts. Don't tell me you eat tofu."

"Uh, why not? Tastes good."

She turned to me. "How do you find them? What do you do to have only health nuts apply for your jobs? Why can't you just once hire someone who will share a pizza with me or bring me donuts? Bring me candy? Why? Do you get word out to 'Only apply if health nut without appreciation for real food'?

I leaned down to lay a kiss on her, effectively silencing her. "Babe."

The constant pressure she was keeping up was driving me insane, but Steph was in no better condition than me. The rubbing of the seam of her pants causing them to get damp and she was squirming in her seat.

"Don't "Babe" me. You know what happens when I go off sugar." True. To get her mom to stop tippling she had laid off sugar about one month ago, reducing her intake even more than after her training and the results had been great, but exhausting. Steph had been on the cranky side and insatiable in bed. It had been too much for me in the end so I had secretly bought her donuts to get some sleep at all. She seemed to recall the happenings of this time as well, the gasp quite obvious. There weren't many places in this building where she hadn't thrown me down to have her wicked way with me.

I decided to put an end to the interview, no longer able to hold out and addressed Phoenix. "Welcome to RangeMan. The job's yours if you still want it."

He stood up as well. "I'd love to work here."

"Good. My men will take you to Ella to get your measurements for your uniform and then they'll show you around. I'll join you in the gym in an hour for the evaluation."

We shook hands and they went to leave. The last thing I heard was Phoenix: "Are they always like this?"

"Don't worry, they just got engaged yesterday," Lester was quick to answer.

The door was finally pulled shut and I pulled Steph out of her chair.

"Driving me crazy turned you on, didn't it? Making me mad with desire, not able to do anything about it?" Before she could even attempt to answer I pulled her into a rough kiss, sealing my mouth to hers, stealing both of our breaths. I kissed her with abandon, cradling her head in my hands as I changed the angle slightly so I could deepen the kiss. My tongue was exploring Steph's mouth, playing with her tongue.

Steph grabbed my ass, pulling me even tighter against her. She ground her hips into mine and I groaned, breaking our kiss. In the blink of an eye I had Steph turned around so she was facing away from me, and bent over the conference table.

I opened the fly of her pants and pulled them down, leaving them to bunch around her ankles, effectively immobilizing her. I ripped her panties off with a hard yank and roughly shoved two fingers into her welcoming heat making her shriek. Steph was wet beyond belief, and she had been a bad girl. That screamed for punishment.

"Ric, please."

"Uh uh, you've been a bad girl, Babe. It won't be that easy for you. Grip onto the edge of the table and don't move."

She did as I told her and I moved her feet apart as much as the bundled pants would allow.

Without any warning I brought my free hand down onto her ass, her yelp mingling with the slapping sound, leaving a red mark. I did it again and wiggled the fingers I had inside her. This time her yelp was followed by a moan. I spanked her a few times, letting my thumb rub rough circles on her clit.

The tremor in her vaginal muscles told me that she was getting close to the brink. I spanked her again and stepped back, withdrawing my fingers in the process, and left her hanging.

"Ric, please, don't do this to me."

"Do what, Babe? Drive you crazy? Spank you?" She was trying to rub her thighs together, a sure sign that her need had to be almost unbearable.

"Punish me, damnit. Shove your fucking dick into me and fuck me senseless."

Her wish was my command. I stepped behind her again and pulled her thighs apart. Before she knew what was happening I was inside her to the hilt, the tip of my cock brushing against her cervix, just like she wanted it, while I pinched her clit and slapped her ass.

Steph came instantly, screaming my name. Her walls were clenching around me almost painfully, trying to pull me with her. I was hanging onto my control by a thin thread as she was shaking and trembling under me and around me.

Grabbing her around the waist to keep her from crumpling to the floor I slowly started to thrust into her with steady strokes, building her back up again. My breathing sped up with my thrusts and Steph was panting. The noises were driving me crazy.

Her inner muscles hadn't stopped clenching yet when she came again. This time she pulled me with her into orgasm and I felt my hot load spurt into her as I groaned her name. Steph's legs were shaking uncontrollably now. Mine were in no better condition, so I sank to the floor, pulling her with me. She came to rest in my lap with me still inside her, but I could feel myself going soft. I would need a few minutes before I was ready for another round. We were in no condition yet anyway. Our breathing was still coming in gasps and I could feel my heart beat against my ribcage.

"You okay, there?" I couldn't see her eyes, so I had no idea what Steph was feeling and how she was doing.

That was something I didn't want at that moment so I lifted her up, flopping out of her in the process, and turned her around until she was straddling me.

Instead of answering me she laid a kiss on me that made me forget what I was asking in the first place.

"Thanks."

"Huh?" I had no idea what she was talking about.

"Thanks," she said in her well-duh voice, "That was exactly what I needed. But did you scramble the cameras?"

She looked up into the corner. I followed her gaze and saw the green LED blink.

"Fuck."

"Uhm, yes, that's what we did." She was grinning at me.

"You know, we gave the guys quite a show." Only Tank and I had the possibility to shut off the feed to the control room. Tank was showing Phoenix around and I had been fucking her brains out.

"Is it bad that it turned me on?"

I looked up in surprise, never having pegged her as one to get off on knowing that someone was watching us. It just wasn't what one would expect from her, but then she'd done a lot of things nobody would ever expect of her in the last year. Like getting training for example.

Groaning was the only response I was capable of and Steph was laughing at me. I would have loved to show her who was really the boss, but sadly enough we didn't have the time to do so. The guys were waiting for us to get Phoenix' evaluation started.

"I would love to throw you down again, but we do need to get a move on."

Steph stood up to get redressed when she noticed the condition of he panties. "What am I supposed to do now, huh? I can't go and walk around without any underwear." She definitely sounded like she was trying to pout, but the orgasmic bliss had left her too mellow to care.

"You can go up to the apartment and get a new pair or you can go commando, which I'd greatly appreciate." I let my wolfish grin make an appearance, letting Steph get a glimpse of what might be in store for her later.

She pulled her pants up, effectively ending the discussion. We got ourselves put back together and headed out.

We met the core team and Phoenix in the gym and they were grinning like idiots. Seemed like they had witnessed our encounter as well. Made we wonder why Tank hadn't made use of his authority and cut of the feed.

Especially Lester was leering at Steph.

"So guys, did you like it?" Steph was grinning at them and from the way she held herself, at least Tank, Lester, Lil and Bobby should know that Volcano Stephanie was about to erupt. I was pretty sure that even Phoenix knew he shouldn't mess with her now.

"Sure did." Apparently Lester didn't know her as well as I thought.

"Les, you want to participate the next time? Make a nice sandwich?" That smelled of trouble.

"Sure, why not? Bombshell, you know you're hot. We would all love to get a go at you." Les was nearly drooling as the other guys stood back, watching the show unfold.

Suddenly her eyes got cold and hard as she looked at him. "You know Les, I thought at least my closest friends would keep their mouths shut. And you just made a move on your boss' fiancée. Not sure if that was your smartest move ever."

I certainly didn't appreciated it. I was pissed. Les should know better than to bait Steph. He should know by now that I would come up with a suitable punishment for him.

"Enough. Let's get this show on the road. There's more on the schedule for the day. And Les, we will talk about this!"

I guided Phoenix through the evaluation and Bobby made his training schedule. This guy was really good. Steph left at one point to go and do some searches. I took that as my cue to have a little heart to heart with Lester. Bobby was discussing his further training with Phoenix so I deemed it good to leave.

"Santos. My office. Now. Lil, your desk's waiting. Tank, Bobby, you finish here." Without waiting for a reply from either of them I strode out of the gym, making my way into my office. I settled down behind my desk, waiting for Santos to get his ass down here.

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