Previously- "Okay. Then you will do everything that I tell you to do. All or nothing!"

"All Sir!" He grinned.

Warning-Mild Smut

Chapter 2

"To begin, you will run every morning at 0700 for a total of four miles. Two miles to your destination and two miles back. You will not eat fast foods, confections, or sugary drinks. You will eat lean meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, grains and healthy dairy products and drink lots of water."

"Uh sir, confections and drive-thrus are the only food groups I know. Where do I come by these fruits and vegetables and grains and lean meats. You're not going to make me whack my own chickens and shit are you?"

"How the hell did you end up with Ranger. He suffer brain damage in the line of duty or something?"

"I resent that sir. He thinks I'm amusing."

"No doubt. Poor dumb fucker. These techniques won't do you a bit of good unless you get yourself in shape. Don't even be thinking about cheating. You'll be getting your finger pricked and pissing on a stick every night to check your blood sugar and ketosis levels. Comprende?"

"Jeez, okay sir", I snarked.

We walked back out and he read the riot act to Lula too. We walked out of class with our tails between our legs. "Got any more bright ideas Lula?"

"That dude could use a doughnut and a enema or somethin'. He's a grouchy fucker."

"Are we going to try this or what?"

"I guess we could try for a week." I dropped Lula off and headed to my apartment. As soon as I got into bed, I heard my locks tumbling. Shit. I forgot about the GPS and I lied to Ranger. I closed my eyes tight. I heard the rustle of clothing and then felt the bed sag. "I know you're awake and you're up to something Babe. The wheels squeaking in your head are as loud as Rex's wheel."

"Are you spying on me? What if I had a date tonight? You just came right in."

"You didn't. You had a headache remember? Where is the bag?" He brushed his hand over my breast.

"Bag?"

"Your goody bag from the Pleasure Treasures." He ran his hand down my stomach.

"Nuh..uh. No way buster are you looking in that bag." Oh shit his hand slid inside my panties and stopped right before he hit the target. Maybe if I scoot up a couple inches. I started wiggling and his hand clamped down on me.

"You didn't make those purchases to share with me Babe?"

"I'm not saying. The enemy got their hands on too much information today already." He chuckled as I began to wiggle upwards again.

"The enemy? Am I the enemy?"

"All you're getting is name, rank and cereal number." He laughed.

"That's serial and I can make you talk Babe." He rolled me on my back and moved his fingers those last two inches and began massaging my sensitive little nub. He licked my lips and gave me a smoldering kiss, then licked the shell of my ear and sucked the ear lobe before biting down and sucking my neck right before I was about to climax and then he stopped. What?

"Why did you stop?"

"Talk to me."

"I can't talk. I can't even think right now."

"Talk and I'll give you what you want."

"No. I'll do it myself then." I moved my hand down to finish the job he started and he grabbed it and snapped a fuzzy handcuff around my wrist and then raised my hands over my head and locked the other wrist in.

I was shocked. "You broke in my car and went through the bag?"

He pushed my shirt up and took a swollen nipple in his mouth and sucked it. "Yes I did. We'll discuss the items you bought later. What is a copy of the 'Art of War' doing in your car?"

"Let me run some random words by you Ranger, intrusive, invasive, meddlesome, nosy, presumptuous, prying, snoopy…" He took my mouth and slid his tongue inside and rolled on top of me and began to rub his erection hard against me. The climax began to build again and I moaned and right before I was about to get my release, he fucking did it again. Rolled right off me.

"No you didn't!"

"Talk."

"No." He rolled out of bed and dressed and started out the door.

"Oh so now you're leaving. I'm handcuffed here. So who's playing games now?" He just kept walking and the door closed and he was gone. Dammit.

Good thing he didn't lock me to anything at least. I got up and turned on the light and looked around for the key. Went in the living room and kitchen and checked. Crap. I slid on some shoes and grabbed my car keys. I went out to my car and grabbed the Pleasure Treasures bag. On the way back to my apartment, bright car lights flashed on me. I stomped over to the car. "Give me the damn key!"

I stopped dead short of the car. Shit! It was Carl Costanza and Big Dog in their police cruiser. Carl was snickering. "We were just cruising through Stephanie. Looks like the timing was perfect."

"Oh shut it! Since you're here you can make yourself useful. Do you have some kind of universal handcuff key?"

Big Dog laughed. "What's in the bag Steph?"

"None of your beeswax. Now are you going to help me or not?"

Carl got out with a key and reached for my hands. "Morrelli cuff you or did you just try these on for size?"

"No smartass. Morrelli's not here." I grabbed the cuffs and shoved them in my bag and reached out and grabbed his key. "I'm keeping this and thanks. There is nobody here."

Carl looked at the bag. "Oh, I get it. You got one of them fake dingers in there don't you? Going for the whole solo fantasy thing hugh?"

"No! Degenerate. Now go funny guys." They were both guffawing.

Big Dog said, "Nice pj's. I like the bunny wabbits." Shit, I forgot I was wearing boys shorts and a tank and my ass was probably hanging out there jiggling. I huffed and turned and stomped back to my apartment and slammed the door.

At 7AM there was a loud banging at my door. I had hit my snooze alarm about ten times. I went to the door and opened it. Lula glared at me. "You're not even ready yet girl. This is just bullshit!"

"What is it with you and Gordon and bullshit? Give me a a couple minutes."

"We were out the door in five minutes and huffing toward a nearby park. When we got to the park, Lula said, "Okay so how many miles was that?"

"Zero. We won't have a mile done until we get all the way around this duck pond."

"Are you shittin' me girl? How we supposed to know how many miles we runnin'."

"We need to get us one of those pedometer things. Let's just keep going around the park until we can't run any more. Today, that will probably be in yards not miles." We went around the duck pond two more times and Lula was complaining about cramps. "Don't runners supposed to stretch or warm up or something. I got a cramp in my ass."

"Let's head back for today Lula. I'm about done too."

We grabbed bottles of water and collapsed on my couch. "So what are we going to do today?"

"We'll see if Connie's got skips and we'll get one of those pedometer things. Gordon was just rude. He thinks we can't do this and I want to show his smug ass otherwise. He actually said Ranger must have suffered brain damage to be with me." Lula burst out laughing. I rolled my eyes.

Lula and I had cereal, banana and juice for breakfast and I even went light on sugar in my coffee. After she left, I took a shower and fed Rex and headed to the bonds office. Connie was reading a new Cosmo. I turned my head to look at something on the cover. 'Ten steps to getting your guy and keeping him.'

"Hey Con, I definitely want to borrow that when you're done with it. Got any skips?"

"Got one." She pushed a folder to me.

As I was reading the file, the door opened and my neck began to tingle. He wrapped his hand around the back of my neck. "Babe."

"Morning Ranger." He handed Connie some body receipts and told Connie he would be back in a few minutes. "A word Ms. Plum." He was guiding me out to the alley.

"Gonna' feel me up and then leave again?"

"Babe, you have been lying to me since the deal was consumated? Why?"

"That's not true. Actually I lie a lot. I'm good at it. You just don't catch me. I lie to you on average once or twice a week…"

"Babe. You didn't go to your parents house and you didn't have a headache last night. Why did you lie?"

"I used to have a thing called privacy. Ever hear of it?"

"Are you uncomfortable with me now?"

"No."

"Did you have a problem with that night?"

"Nope. It was okay."

"It was okay. If it was just okay then we need to work on our technique some more." He moved in and placed his thigh between my legs and rubbed against me.

"I think the debt is paid. You can't use sex against me to make me do things. So, stop being a…a pussy teaser." He laughed.

"You're right. There is no more debt. No price for what we give each other ever again. Do you want to talk about anything?"

"Nope." He pulled my chin up to look in my eyes and kissed me.

"Can I come see you tonight?"

"I'm sorry but, I really do have plans every night this week until the weekend."

He smirked, "Morrelli."

"No. Ranger we were fuck buddies for one night and I don't have to tell you my business. Are we finished here?" His blank face went up and he stepped away from me. Boy I sure do hope I'm playing this right. I just need to keep him in a holding pattern until I get my real plans together. I don't know what the hell I'm doing. He likes my bait. I just have to learn how to reel him in without losing him. I gave him a finger wave and walked back to the bonds office to wait for Lula.

We couldn't find our skip, Barney. We went by the mall and window shopped instead and found a pedometer and ate a healthy lunch of grilled chicken, apple and berry salad with raspberry vinegrette dressing. My yum yums were less enthusiatic but still it was pretty good. At least the pecans on top were sugared.

Lula was the one groaning and making a face after every bite. I looked at her. "You going to be okay girl? You want to try something else?"

"No, but I expect my body is gonna' go into septic shock or some shit from eatin' this rabbit food." She sighed. "I'm tryin' girl. I put some carrots and apples and bananas in my bag and I'm makin' it so far."

"Lu, we should be really proud of ourselves. We did good our first day. Give me five chick." Slap. "Yeah, girl."

Lula drove to the fight studio that night because I knew I was being tracked. True to his grouchy word, Gordon made us pee on a stick and drew blood from both of us. Lula made sure every person in the room saw her boo boo. He came out with a grin on his face and commenced to torture us for two long hours. We dragged our asses to her car and back to mine at the bonds office and I drove home.

I was so tired, I couldn't do anything but, make a straight shot to my bed and fall in. No dreaming, no tossing, just lights out.

The snooze was beeping and I swatted at it and cursed. And slowly got up and shuffled to the bathroom. When Lula knocked I was ready. We slowly jogged off to the park with our pedometer and headed around the duck pond. She asked me two dozen times how far we had gone before I said just two miles. She groaned and we kept going until we hit another half mile and we headed home. I said, "Baby steps Lu. We'll get there."

We made big fat omelets and had some fruit too. We were surprised that we were full and kind of energetic after our meal. I think we just might find our groove. We snatched Barney that day without too much hassle and patted ourselves on the back and took the rest of the day off. I read Connie's Cosmo that afternoon and wasn't too much the wiser. None of that crappola was going to work on Batman. Where do I find an article for 'How to get a super hero and keep him'.

TBC