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out. We’ve intercepted some of your shipments going south. They’re all foreign made. If you sell them, you have to buy them from somewhere.” She gave a nervous laugh, “High capacity assault weapons don’t just appear out of thin air.”
     
    “Nothing appears out of thin air,” Zed responded softly. “And nothing disappears into thin air. Even after six years, it just keeps popping up.”
     
    “I was talking about guns,” Christie said.
     
    “I wasn’t,” answered Zed.
     
    “I want to put a stop to this flow of illegal weapons out of Nevada,” Christie said emphatically.
     
    “More than anything else?” Zed asked.
     
    “Do you mean more than us?” she answered. “Do I love my job more than I love you?”
     
    Zed stared silently into her eyes waiting for her to answer her own question. He had stood up from the chair and she had risen from the bed. They slowly moved toward each other in silence. Their faces were just inches apart when finally, she tearfully answered, “I thought I did.”
     
    Christie wiped her eyes with the edge of her hand and said in a shuddering voice, “But I was wrong. Even if your men hadn’t caught me, I would never have turned the video over to my boss. If they had ordered me, I would have had to, but nobody even knew I was there. I was going to just go back home and... and...” Christie fell silent, holding back the sobs which wanted to erupt from within her.
     
    “And do what?” Zed asked.
     
    She screamed, “Get drunk! Eat a gallon of chocolate ice cream! Cry! I don’t know!” She beat her fists softly against Zed’s chest and allowed the sobs to flow with her words, “All I know is that I left something wonderful six years ago and things can never go back to what they once were.”
     
    Zed pulled her into his chest and trapped her arms between them. “Some things haven’t changed,” he said and then he placed his mouth on hers. It wasn’t really a kiss. Their lips were pressed together. His mouth was slightly open, but it was as if he were staying at the edge of an actual kiss and leaving the final decision to her.
     
    Christie would never know for sure if it was her mind or her body which made the final decision as she pushed her mouth more tightly against Zed’s and slid her tongue forward to lick the edge of his lips.
     
    He had asked and she had answered “yes”. An intense heat immediately boiled up within both of them as they clawed at each other’s clothing. Christie could vaguely remember pulling the covers from the bed as they fell back onto the pale blue sheets.
     
    Zed’s lips burned across her skin as his mouth sought out her breasts. His hands stroked fire into her legs and back as they roamed across her body. She tried to pull him into herself, but he held back and continued to drive her farther and farther into the hottest flames at the center of the fire of her passion. Finally, his mouth returned to hers and he forcefully kissed her as his substantial member slid into her body.
     
    Six years it had been since she’d had a man. She had dated a few times, but had not gone beyond some kissing and petting. She knew that some of the people in the office called her “Agent Tease” or “The Ice Queen,” but neither name was true. It wasn’t that she was cold or cruel, it was that none of them had been Zed.
     
    Tonight it was Zed, and her body was responding with a fire that could melt an entire ice kingdom. She bucked and threw herself upward to meet to meet his thrusts. If she never got out of this captivity, at least she would have this one night with Zed. Her career—her life itself—might be forfeit, but nothing would ever be able to take this moment away from her.
     
    With a long, loud, guttural moan, she climaxed, shaking and shuddering under Zed’s continued movement. Soon he, with a much quieter groan, erupted within her.
     
    ***
     
    They lay intertwined on the bed, sweating and breathing heavily. Then