: A thought of yours, I couldn't resist.

Chapter 9

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The contractor looked at the facility he was building. It was almost complete, they had to build night and day to be on schedule. Their client had given them an aggressive schedule and they had met it, the finishing touches were being put and in the next fifteen days they would be able to hand over the facility to his client on time.

The challenge was to build it to the exact specifications the client had asked. Apparently it would be used to store some hi-tech military equipment his client manufactured. This was a massive storage facility with some serious security and it costed a hell of a lot to build it. The contractor was happy though, he would make his thirty percent of profit, the client had thrown money at him apparently they needed the facility in a fucking hurry.

That was one reason he accepted the contract with such aggressive timelines, the money was too good to be true. He had been skeptical in the beginning so he did his homework, he had looked in to this company before accepting the contract, he had never heard of this company before. 'American Metallurgy Inc.' it was called and they made weapons and ammunition for military and after a little more digging he found that this company was owned by one more company in Washington DC.

So he called a friend of his in the pentagon a classmate of his from school he would surely be able to shed some light on this company. He did, he said that the company was a serious player and was sitting on some fat contracts awarded by Uncle Sam.

The parent company was called, American Avionics.

***

"I better get you home" he pulled away reluctantly, they had started one more make out session, but he stopped pulling away. A guy could only take so much before combusting and they were not at a stage where they could take it forward a little more.

"Ok" she whispered huskily equally disappointed. He caused all kinds of funny feelings inside her, he reduced her to a putty in his hands and his lips should come with a warning label! They were lethal.

She had spent her evening trying to get some homework done and he trying to steal some kisses from her, he won mostly. Then they had ordered dinner and she had finally settled down and finished her homework after which they wound up on the couch which they were currently on.

She got up from the comfort of his lap and sighed, already missing it's warmth, turning around she started collecting her things but suddenly paused and looked back and found him busily adjusting his pants strategically. Which he stopped in a hurry as he saw her eyeing him. Goddamn boner!

"What?" he asked her, she had clearly turned to him with something in her mind.

"You never told me what Alex told you, for you to think..." she trailed off.

"Ah!" he said, trying to figure out where to begin "He mentioned he spoke to you in the morning and that the conversation might have come up to which you didn't react positively" he said trying to gauge her reaction carefully.

She narrowed her eyed and pulled her lips in to a thin line "So he played both of us."

Maxwell looked at her, she was right "I guess he did" he voiced grimly.

She had a look that said that there were wheels spinning in that pretty head of hers.

"What?!" he asked her, clearly she was thinking something.

"Don't you think it's only fair we get back to him?" she asked with her eyes narrowed.

"We?" he asked. As a team? That was...that was actually a wonderful idea.

"What do you have in mind?" he asked her.

She was biting that bottom lip of hers in deep thought. She looked so tempting. Oh! What he wouldn't give to be biting those lips and those...Stop! Don't go there, keep your eyes on the face...eyes up, straight up. Fuck! He was turning in to a... teenager with raging hormones.

"Max!" she broke in to his thoughts and the clouds of lust cleared from him.

"What?" He chirped nervously.

"Where were you?" she asked impatiently, he had not been paying attention to what she had been saying.

You have no idea babe, where I was or where I want to be he thought and before sliding back in to sweet tempting thoughts he focused his attention back to her "What did you say?"

"I said I have a plan" She responded

"You do?" he asked.

"Yep" she nodded her head eagerly.

"I am all ears" he said sitting straight up. Anything to get back at that bastard! As he listened to her plan his eyes widened in surprise. She was devious! Her little mind was devious!

And he loved it!

***

Alex opened the door in a hurry. The way Maxwell called him unnerved him.

"What was the fucking emerg..." he trailed off as he saw the room. The living room of Maxwell's suite was a mess, like a war zone.

"What the fuck happened here?" Alex demanded. Maxwell was sitting on the living room couch in a disheveled state. A state of shock, the look in his eyes...

"What's wrong Maxwell?" Alex whispered coming over.

"What have I done Alex" Maxwell whispered in shock and disbelief "What have I done?" he repeated rhetorically.

"What did you do?" Alex whispered back, his heart sinking. He had a bad feeling about this.

"My god Alex!" Maxwell whispered still not looking at him. He looked devastated.

Alex sat next to him "Max!" he gently touched him on the shoulder.

"What happened, tell me?" He coaxed.

"I" Maxwell gulped "I confronted her about what you told me" He confessed.

"Who?" Alex asked when the light bulb went off in his head "You mean Evy?"

Maxwell looked at Alex panic stricken at that name and then he looked over Alex's shoulder towards the closed bedroom door, stared at it and Alex turned and looked as well a sense of dread set in to him.

He turned back and looked at Maxwell still staring at the bedroom door.

"Tell me" He nudged Max.

"I confronted her and..." he paused and gulped "Shit! Everything went out of control and before I knew it my wolf was in control. He wanted his mate. He wanted to claim her." Maxwell trailed off.

Alex felt sick in his stomach. The earlier dread converting in to full blown panic. Fuck!

"She...I" Maxwell tried to continue.

"Where is Evy" Alex asked with a sinking feeling.

"In the room" he whispered, looking at the closed door.

Alex got up in a flash and turned to the room and for the first time he noticed something, something the couch had hidden when he walked in. Behind the couch were cloths strewn around, woman's clothes....her clothes...Evy's clothes. Holy fucking god! This was bad!

Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Alex mind kept repeating it like a mantra. He was shaking with fear of what he would see on the other side of that door but at the same time quickly walked to it.

Just in front of the door was a bra, laying haphazardly on the floor. Fuck!

Alex's mind wouldn't function, he side stepped the garment and with shaking hands he opened the door and took a deep breath.

What he saw...what he saw...

What he thought he saw...confused him. Either his brain or his eyes were malfunctioning.

Because Evy was sprawled on the bed in a hotel robe smiling impishly at him.

"Hello Alex" she smiled coyly as he was having an apoplexy in front of her.

Stunned he looked at her, what he felt was like forever as his mind raced in confusion and then he looked back at Maxwell. Who was leaning on the wall casually his earlier demeanor all but disappeared and smiling without a care in the world.

He looked back and forth between them until his mind started piecing it together. He was not dumb, he caught on.

Ha.Ha.Ha...funny guys! He deadpanned.

Feeling anything but, well this was karma biting him in his ass. But he was glad, it was only something to get back to him. Not real, he was so relieved he could feel any other emotion. He was just so glad that this was not real. He didn't know what he would not have done if it was not.

Relieved, he stepped back out of the bedroom and stopped.

He looked down at the bra lying on the floor, staring at it for a minute. A slow smile spread on his face. Well a dog is a dog he thought about himself.

He looked up and saw Maxwell's narrowed eyes as he saw what Alex was staring at. He turned back and looked in to the bedroom where Evelyn had moved to the edge of the bed curious as to what he had been staring at. He looked at her and saw a blush appearing on her cheek as she saw him staring at her bra on the floor.

Alex looked back at Maxwell again who was looking at him murderously. His grin grew, looks like he had a death wish.

He again stared at the bra until he heard a low growl coming from Maxwell and he turned back and looked at Evelyn and said calmly "34C is it?"

"GET OUT!!!!" Maxwell roared and lunged at him.

Before Maxwell could reach him Alex bolted to the door laughing evilly and beat a hasty exit.

Calmness settled in the suite. Max was now standing near the bra and he stared at is similar to what Alex did earlier. How did he know? Just by looking at it? If there was a label on that damn thing it wasn't visible to him.

Evelyn calmly got up from the bed, she secured the knot on the robe and quickly came out and started picking up her clothes, not that the show was over. Maxwell's eyes followed her, especially her ass, which the robe accentuated every time she bent down...want an ass!

"How did he know?" He blurted out, he was still curious to know. Pushing the thoughts of what he would like to do with that ass of hers, for now in to the background.

She turned around, with all her clothes in her arms.

"He didn't" she calmly said. Heading to the bedroom door and pausing near the door.

"What do you mean?" he asked confused following her.

"He was playing" She calmly said looking at him "Trying to get a rise out of you, trying to have a last say. Basically he was being Alex"

"So" Maxwell said, realization dawning on to him "he fibbed!"

She nodded her head.

He looked at her and asked for conformation "So you are not 34C?"

"Nope" she said with as much straight face as she could manage.

He paused and asked "Then, what is your size?" a small smile appearing on his face and his eyes darting to her chest involuntarily.

How she kept a straight face she did not know "That's for me to know" she said and with a devilish glint in her eye added "And for you to find out" and with that she promptly shut the door on his shocked face.

Find out he shall. Yes, he liked this finding out business. Finding out sounded perfect. He shall find what no man has found before.

***

Maxwell walked Evelyn to her porch, he had accompanied her back home. Holding hands they walked gently to her door, their pace slowing down as the door approached, both trying to prolong the separation.

"I had a good time" Maxwell broke the silence.

"Me too" she confessed.

"I think we make a good team" Maxwell added, their plan at getting back at Alex did work.

She smiled in response. As they finally reached her door.

"So" She said, not ready to let him go...yet.

"So" he responded back, not willing to go either.

"Goodnight" She responded, having nothing else to say.

"Goodnight Evelyn...do have naughty dreams about me" he said slyly.

She looked at him and smiled coyly "Maybe I will."

"Maybe?" he whispered moving closer to her.

"Yeah, Maybe" she said, closing the distance between them. They were now standing in front of each other with barely and distance between them.

"How about I turn that maybe in to certainty?" he whispered leaning down.

"How?" She whispered back craning her neck up at him, their faces inches from each other and her eyes unconsciously darting to her lips.

"I thing I have an idea" he murmured, closing the distance between them and planting his lips on hers to which she responded eagerly.

He deepened the kiss closing his eyes, pulling her in to his arms and she went in readily. She in turn put her hands around him neck gently putting pressure on his neck deepening the kiss further.

They were so involved in making out that they did not hear the door open and someone come out.

A throat cleared. No response.

It cleared loudly. The face sucking continued.

Someone clapped loudly near their faces and they jumped apart.

Evelyn's heart was beating erratically, her breaths coming out in short breaths, her lips were swollen from the ministrations. Her mouth agape she looked at the person who interrupted them and her heart jumped to her throat.

Looking totally unimpressed, his eyes narrowed, Jeff stood at the door staring down the lovebirds.