"I like him." D started the car.
"Yeah, so do I. He's young, but he's smart. If we can keep him focused, he'll do good." Jeremy clipped his seat belt into place.
"If he drops his obsession with you, he'll be good." D grinned as he pulled out of the parking spot, making sure Marshall was behind them before turning onto the road.
"It's hardly an obsession. He was only going to ask me out." Jeremy laughed.
"He stared at you all night." D bit his lip. He really shouldn't play the jealousy card, but it was hard not to point out the truth.
"You're jealous."
"Of course, I am. You're mine." D reached over and placed his hand on Jeremy's thigh. "He needs to find new eye-candy."
"He will. I'm not interested at all, and he should know that. Hell, I'm too old for him anyway. You have nothing to worry about. I'm all yours and have no plans on straying."
"Good thing. I'd have to hold you down and fuck you hard, reminding you what you were walking away from," D teased.
"I hope I don't have to walk away to get you to hold me down and fuck me." Jeremy laughed. "I was kind of hoping you did that because you like me."
"When I hold you down and fuck you, it's bordering on love," D said.
"Ah, the way to your heart."
D winked at him.
"Give me an hour or two so I can show Marshall what to do on the computers and you can spend the rest of the night falling in love with me." Jeremy covered D's hand with his.
"You won't hear me complain about that." D was ready to get away from the STK house for a few hours. They'd been pushing hard, working on organizing evidence and planning three more stings for the next week. "So I did something without talking to you about it first." D glanced over at Jeremy. He wasn't really worried, but as they were both in charge of the team, he should have brought it up with Jeremy first.
"What did you do?" Jeremy eyed him.
"You a football fan?" D asked.
"Um, yeah, but I've never been to a game. I mean, I'll watch them on Sunday if I don't have anything else to do."
"Well, that will change. I figured as part of the process of helping the team relax once in a while, it would be fun to give them tickets from time to time to go hit up some of the games in the city. I mean, we've got baseball, hockey, football. So, I went ahead and bought season tickets for each one. We can give them to the others or use them ourselves if we want. Once it's a little safer for me to go out anyway. The last thing I need right now is us getting caught on the kiss cam on the jumbotron." Sadly, in the past, that would have been something D would have been excited for.
Jeremy's phone rang and he pulled his hand from D's to answer.
After talking for a minute, Jeremy glanced over at D. "There's some guy at the door named Brad. He says you'll know him. Rani said he knew the password, but he's still hesitant to let him and the guy he's with in."
For a second D was confused, but then he remembered where he knew Brad from. "Tell him to let him in. He's fine. We'll be there in five minutes. Tell him to treat Brad like he would any member of the team."
Jeremy passed on the information and hung up. "Who's Brad? Should I be the one jealous now?"
"Well, Brad did give me the biggest gift of my life." D grinned over at Jeremy.
"Oh, he did, did he? I'm not liking him already." Jeremy folded his arms over his chest, playfully pouting.
"If it wasn't for Brad, I wouldn't have ever met you. He is the one who gave me my freedom. Well, technically, that was Carter and Bryon who did that, but Brad was the one waiting for me outside the jail when I was released. He got me to a safe house and helped me lay low for a few days before we came here." D owed Brad a lot. "I have no clue why he'd be at the house though. You said someone is with him? Maybe Rob?"
"Rani didn't say who the second guy was. Just that Brad insisted on talking to you."
D frowned. "I hope it's nothing serious. Could be as simple as he's in town and needed a place to crash for the night. Honestly, I'm not exactly sure what he does. I get the feeling he's more than just a friend of STK. He didn't talk much about it."
"Yeah, same as when Rob picked me up and brought me to Colorado. He seemed more like some special forces guy. I didn't dare ask. I was a nervous wreck already with all the shit going on," Jeremy admitted.
"Well, we're about to find out." D pulled into the driveway. Once they got out of the car, they waited for Marshall to park and join them before going in.
