“Oh, my God. Did I seriously fall asleep on you again?”
She looked appalled but Kong grinned. “What can I say? I’m like a Serta Perfect Sleeper.”
Grudgingly, he disentangled himself from her. “Why don’t you get ready and I’ll go get us some breakfast?”
“Okay.”
“Any requests?”
She shot him a shy smile. “Surprise me.”
“I can do that.” Leaning in, he kissed her before she knew what he was about. It was brief and chaste for the most part but he pulled back with a wicked grin. “Surprise!”
Katherine laughed, a becoming blush staining her cheeks. “I meant, surprise me with breakfast.” But she was smiling and looked quite pleased with him.
“Oooh. That’s what you meant?” he teased. “Okay. One surprise breakfast coming up.” Kong moved away from her before he gave in to the urge to kiss her again, more deeply this time. That quick taste hadn’t been nearly enough to satisfy his craving. Willpower, man. Willpower. “See you soon.”
“See you soon.”
Kong nearly groaned as he left her room. The way she’d been looking at him as he left… There’d been so much emotion in her eyes. He was done. Gone. Any chance of him staying rational and not getting his hopes up had been blasted out of the water. He wanted a future with her. He wanted everything with her.
He was whistling as he jogged out of her building, feeling lighter than he had in a long time.
“Kong!”
He halted as Matthew Davies, the general’s son and Black Bay’s head of security jogged over to him. The guy was slightly out of breath when he reached him – too much time in a desk chair monitoring the external camera feeds.
“The general sent me to find you. Cleary’s on the move.”
Kong bit out a curse. He’d shut off his phone so it wouldn’t wake Katherine and then forgotten about it. “How long ago?”
“Roughly twenty minutes.”
“Did our team lose him?”
“No. They’ve still got a tail on him.”
Good. He looked back toward Katherine’s building. Breakfast would have to wait. But he didn’t want to leave Katherine hanging.
“Hey, Matt? Can you do me a favor?”
Chapter Sixteen
“This guy’s fucking hilarious,”Kong heard Jace say as he entered General Davies’ office. Leo, Erik, and Perrin were also there, with the general seated behind his desk.
“Sorry I’m late,” he said, joining them. “Bring me up to speed?”
Jace chuckled. “Cleary thinks he’s a stealthy super spy.”
“Okay, that’s enough.” General Davies looked at Kong. “Earlier this morning, August Cleary left his house and drove to a busy McDonald’s.”
Leo snickered. “He needed that McMuffin.”
The general glared at him for the interruption but continued. “He went inside, ordered, and spoke to several people. After eating, he went to the men’s room and was shortly followed by another patron.”
“Let me guess,” Kong inserted. “He swapped clothes.”
Jace started laughing again. “Ball cap and sunglasses too.”
