the hair so that he could kiss her mouth. “Your other lover’s about due to charge in the door and find you with me.”
“Will he mind?” Jilly asked, finding it hard to care.
“I can’t believe he wouldn’t, but I don’t know. One of the teams developed most of this one. But at the very least, it would interrupt my mission.”
She reached behind her to touch his cheek and lifted her face again. “Better save it and get out of here, then.”
“Better had,” he agreed and kissed her. When he lifted his head, they were still in the bath. She smiled and so did he, and they kissed again.
“Maybe,” he said, “if there are no signs of Sera breaking down the door for need of you, I could fuck you again in the test lab.”
“Quick and dirty on the hard bench?”
“That would work,” he said breathlessly.
“You really want my badge to be impressive, don’t you?”
“Hell, yes.” His hand slid down her stomach and cupped between her legs. She gave a little moan of pleasure. “Or maybe we could fit just one more in here first. I don’t really want to move.”
She stroked the length of his arm down to his hand between her thighs and left it there, holding him to her. “Neither do I,” she whispered. There was another kiss, long and sweet, but his hand remained still on her pussy. It was curiously comforting as well as sexy.
“I’ll be good,” he said ruefully. “Try not to look too abandoned. Just in case Sera’s waiting for us.”
“I’ll try,” she said.
There was a pause. He frowned. A loud knock sounded at the hotel room door, making Jilly jump.
“That’ll be your lover, on cue,” Adam said. “Do you think you could try wishing to be somewhere else?”
“I don’t want to be anywhere else,” she admitted.
“Neither do I,” said Adam on the ghost of a laugh. “Which leaves us a bloody big problem getting out of here.”
A second knock sounded at the door, louder and more peremptory. “Madeleine, are you in there?”
“We could just leave him and go back to bed,” Adam suggested.
“Won’t he break the door in?”
“Let him watch.”
“Is there a program for that too? You really are a dirty bastard.”
“It’s up to us. We can do exactly as we like. There’s even a machine gun in the plant pot.”
Jilly began to laugh. “You mean we can shoot our way out?”
“Of course. It’s a computer game.”
“Naked?”
“If you want to.”
She sat up and turned to face him, and his eyes began to sparkle.
Chapter Fourteen
If Adam had imagined that being shot at by an angry lover and a bunch of ruthless gangsters would make it easier to wish himself out of the game, he was doomed to disappointment.
From the moment he and JK burst butt naked from the hotel bedroom into the wide hallway full of stunned, armed men, he knew it was just going to be too much fun. He blessed his team of programmers for working even this unlikely scenario into the game, for he and JK really did have the element of surprise, which enabled him to get the first shots in, sending the hoods diving for whatever cover they could find behind pillars and flimsy, decorative tables.
JK, in the meantime, seized the machine gun of the nearest gangster, kneed him in the groin to make him release it, and then forward rolled toward the stairs through a hail of bullets aimed far too high to hit her. Adam, not unreasonably distracted by the sight of her deliciously naked, tumbling bottom, left it a shade too late to leap for the stairs and felt a burning sensation in his arm. Ignoring it, he jumped over the rail onto the sloping banister just in time to meet JK, whom he hoisted up behind him. As they careered down the wide, polished banister, they fired wildly at the ceiling, dropping chunks of wood and rubble and a phenomenal amount of dust on the heads of their enemies.
Inevitably, though, the gangsters had left a watchman in the lobby below, and amid the screams of the respectable patrons, Adam felt the jolt of JK twisting and firing behind her before she hit the floor. Adam landed with a thud, narrowly missing her. He rolled backward and came up shooting at the hoods now running down the stairs after them. A few fell. He aimed at the chandelier and, with what turned out to be pretty good timing, let rip a burst of fire that brought