Tempting Bounty (Inter-Galactic Bounty Hunter Series Book 2) (3 page)

“Absolutely.”

“Well, since you will be seeing a lot more of me, let me show you what we use this room for before you leave.” He watched her stand up and walk over to the light switch. She dimmed the lights and the low beating music grew louder. He should leave. This could only mean trouble. He didn’t get up but sat there perfectly still instead.

*****

Lexi didn’t like her employees to use the backrooms. She wanted to bring the taste level up for the club but occasionally the waitresses or her dancers would sneak guys back there to perform private lap dances for a little extra cash.

Lexi hadn’t done anything like this in years but she was desperate to distract this bounty hunter guy. She needed to give Dan time to get far away from here. Then she planned to take a mini-trip to an island a friend of hers owned while things cooled off. She had asked her waitresses to keep the other two men busy. All she had to do was keep this one from leaving for at least ten minutes.

She slowly turned around moving her body in rhythm to the music playing. She moved her hips in side-to-side motions slowly.

“What are you doing?” His voice was deep and husky with desire.

“I’m going to give you a private dance.”

Chapter 4

She turned with her back to him and undulated her hips. She used all her belly dancing lessons to rotate her hips slowly from side to side. She looked over her shoulder and watched Vic's eyes, as they were glued to her every move. She smiled a secret smile to herself. Men were so easy sometimes.

Lexi turned her back to him as she continued moving and dancing. She reached behind her and unhooked her snaps to her corset top, one at a time. She could hear his breath catch.
Oh yeah, he was distracted all right.

“What are you doing?” he asked with a husky voice.

She turned, holding her bustier against her chest with one hand. She kicked off her high heels. “I’m demonstrating for you what this room is used for.”

Just as he was about to say something, she let her bustier drop to the floor.
Yep, that shut him up nicely.
She turned her back to him again, moving closer and shaking her ass. She hurriedly undid her pants and dragged them down to her hips with each shake. Then she bent over, pulling her pants down to her ankles before releasing them and standing back straight. After she kicked the pants off, she was left with nothing on but her G-string panties.

*****

Holy shit!
Vic was sweating. He didn’t know if the heat was rising in the room or if his own body temperature was skyrocketing with each of Lexi’s movements. Watching her dance was the most erotic thing he had ever seen. Until she dropped her bustier and revealed her luscious perfect breasts.

He should leave — he should have left before she had dimmed the lights. He found himself rooted to the spot where he shifted with an uncomfortable hard-on. Now she was removing her pants and the site of her tiny G-string disappearing between the two well-rounded globes of her ass cheeks had pre-cum coming out of the tip of his penis. Every Decaros instinct inside him screamed for him to mount her and make her submit to him. He gripped the cushions next to him to keep from reaching for her.

Lexi swiveled her hips side to side, walking backward until he had to spread his legs open to allow her to stand right in front of him, within arm’s reach. The scent of her skin had him growling in a low rumble. He was in trouble.

*****

Lexi lifted her hair up off her back, using both hands as she slowly turned to give Vic a side view of her body. She had him hooked. Nothing was going to get him to budge from his seat now. It was what she wanted, but she hadn’t expected her own reaction to the man.

There was something about Vic that was appealing. It had all started out with her trying to distract him so that Dan could escape. As she watched his amazing horns flare up and smelled his incredible scent, she found herself enjoying dancing for him.

Lexi had performed numerous lap dances for clients over the years. She hadn’t done one personally since she had opened her own business. There had been no need to. She had forgotten the thrill a dancer could get from the power she had over a male’s body. She could make the most conservative married man desire her if she wanted. She had never really wanted anything beyond keeping the man in his seat to make money.

This was different than anything else she had ever experienced. Maybe it was just because he was full Decaros. She had rarely seen one up close before. Those horns should be scary but she found herself fascinated with them. She turned around between his legs and smiled when his eyes rose from her swaying hips to her exposed breasts. She rose one knee, then the other, straddling him.

“What are you doing?” His breath hitched and his voice cracked a little.

“Giving you a lap dance. Haven’t you ever had one before?”

He shook his head. “I don’t think this is a good idea.” But his eyes were on her breasts just inches from his face. He licked his lips, which made her nipples harden. Then he growled and she felt herself grow wet with need.

She began her grinding against his pants as she tilted her head back making her long blonde hair sway against her back. Why she stripped to nothing but her panties she didn’t know. Normally she made her dancers wear bikini bathing suits. For some reason she wanted to make this Decaros lose control.

As she rolled and ground down on him she could feel his arousal. Damn the man was huge. She needed something to hold on to as she continued her rocking against him and was reaching for his head. What she grabbed were his fully extended horns.

She couldn’t help but rub and massage them like she would his cock. His hips began to thrust up against her and she felt his mouth and hands on her breasts. This was where normal lap dances would end in her club. Clients weren’t allowed to touch the dancers. This wasn’t a normal dance. She didn’t want to make him stop.

Lexi was losing it. Vic used his hands on her hips to position her in just the right spot so that his clothed dick was hitting her entrance. “Yes!” She pressed down on him, rotating and moving over and on top of him, hard, while grabbing his horns harder and pulling… pulling…
pulling
…

“Lexi!” Vic roared as he came in his pants.

Lexi screamed her release soon after and collapsed against him.
What the hell just happened?
She had never climaxed from fucking someone with any of her clothes still on. This was crazy. The moment she laid eyes on the big guy, she had such a strong physical attraction to him. This was not like her at all. She wasn’t shy with men, but she was very particular with whom she was intimate. This guy was dangerous to her libido. She had to get away from him and quick or he might have her panting and begging for more.

*****

Vic was stunned and sat motionless. He had just shot cum in his pants like an untried youth. What would she think of him? What was he going to do about his employees seeing him like this?

“Ah hell.” Vic growled against her neck.

“Are you okay?” She pulled back to look at him. His eyes were dazed and his skin looked flushed.

“I need new pants.” he admitted. They both looked down at the front of his pants. She giggled and then he chuckled.

“Stay here, and I will go get a spare set of uniform pants.”

He licked his lips watching her breasts bounce as she moved, “I don’t think I can fit in any of your dancer’s outfits.”

She gently slapped his chest as she lifted herself off of him and stood to her full height. “It will be from my security team’s spare uniforms. It should take me just a few minutes.” She shuffled back into her tight leather pants and heard him sigh when she put her bustier back on.

“It’s a shame to cover all that beauty up,” Vic commented.

She smiled. “Maybe if you’re a good boy...you can uncover it again.” His eyes flared with desire instantly and she had to rush to the door before he pulled her back into his arms.

She had quickly grabbed a pair of spare clothes from the lockers before searching for her assistant manager. The further away from Vic she went, the more her head cleared.
What the hell was she doing?
This guy worked for the bail bonds company. Dan had forged her signature so she was in a lot of trouble with these guys. She needed to get out of here and fast. Stay away until the whole thing with Dan died down. She saw her assistant manager and good friend Roxy about to head for the bar.

“Roxy!” She waved for her friend to come over.

“Hey Lexi, sorry I was late getting here but I had to drop the baby off at my babysitter’s.”

“That’s no problem. I need your help.”

“What is it?”

She pointed at the other two bounty hunters who were looking ready to leave. “You see those two men?”

“Yeah. Good-looking guys. Are they law enforcement?”

“Sort of — they’re bounty hunters. There’s a third one in the blue room too. He’s a little indisposed at the moment.”

Roxanne raised an eyebrow at her. “Indisposed?”

“He needs a spare pair of pants after he got his lap dance.” She lifted the pants in the air.

Roxanne laughed. “You want me to deliver the pants?”

“Yes, but wait another ten minutes. I need to get out of here. I’m going away for a few days.”

“Are the bounty hunters after you?”

“They want Dan. He got my name involved somehow so they could take me in for questioning, too.”

“Got it. I’ll cover for you. Get out of here and be safe.”

“Thanks, Roxy.” Lexi turned and headed for her office to grab her jacket and keys. She felt guilty for leaving Vic vulnerable like that. He was the sexiest man she had ever met and he would have been a wonderful lover, but not now.
Damn you, Dan Stratford!

*****

Vic stood up awkwardly. His pants were still wet in the front and it made it hard to move around. He knew five minutes ago that Lexi had most likely fled. He hoped his pants would dry enough before he had to face the others. He froze when someone entered the room. It was a woman with red hair.

“Hi, I’m the assistant manager Roxy. I brought you these.” She walked over to hand him the pants.

“She’s gone, isn’t she?”

Roxy looked him up and down. Then she took a step back. That was the usual reaction he got from human females. This was the reason he usually only shared sex with Decaro women when he visited his aunt and uncle.

She bit her bottom lip. “Are you going to hurt her?”

“Never. I am after her ex-husband, Dan.”

Roxy rolled her eyes. “That man is a worthless piece of shit. I don’t know what she ever saw in him except for his pretty boy good looks.”

“Did she go to her house?” Vic began to unbutton and remove his ruined pants and almost laughed when Roxy quickly turned her back to him. He didn’t wear underwear so he pulled on the spare pair of pants. They were too short and a little big in the waist, but it was wearable.

“Lexi is a good woman. I don’t want to see her hurt.”

“Neither do I. The man that her ex is involved with is very dangerous. It would be better if she stayed away from here until her ex is brought back in for judgement.”

“She’s gone. I don’t know where.” Roxy turned to leave but stopped when Vic touched her arm gently.

“Would you tell me if she returned?”

“No.” Then she left.

Vic walked out into the main space of the club over to where Blade and Isaac were sitting. Both men looked him up and down and their eyes lingered on the khaki pants that he was wearing that were clearly too short.

“Don’t ask,” he warned them as he motioned for them to follow him out of the club.

“Wouldn’t dream of it, boss,” Blade said with a smirk.

Chapter 5

Lexi threw half her dresses on the bed. She stepped back and looked at her medium-sized suitcase and the clothes piled on her bed that were clearly not going to fit. “Fuck!” She shoved most of the dresses to the side, except for a couple that she threw into the suitcase, then concentrated on matching her pants and shirts. A few lingerie sets, her two best bikinis and beach towels. She picked a couple sets of shoes and she was ready. The rest she could buy if she needed to. Besides, she was hoping to be gone for only about a week, at most.

As she closed her suitcase, she realized she had forgotten to grab her hairbrush. She ran into the bathroom to retrieve it. On her way out, she bumped into the wall. Only it wasn’t a wall, but a tall barrier made of muscle. Her arms were grabbed in a painful grip.

“Going somewhere, Mrs. Stratford?”

Lexi struggled as she looked up into the eyes of a stranger. She opened her mouth to scream but a fist hit her in the chin. Darkness followed.

*****

“What do you have for me?” Vic asked Isaac.

“My sensors indicated that one person entered Miss Tanner’s home about ten minutes ago. Then multiple individuals showed up just a few minutes ago. None have left the premises. It could be Stratford with a friend.”

“Blade, how much longer before we get to Miss Tanner’s apartment?” Vic had a bad feeling about those other individuals.

“Pulling onto her road now. Should I park a few houses down?”

“Yes, but be careful not to alert anyone to our presence. It could be Stratford and we don’t want to have him getting away again. Is there another way in besides the front door?” Vic checked his weapon and tucked it into his arm holster. He glanced at the five-story apartment complex. It was in a nice, quiet neighborhood.

“Miss Tanner’s apartment is on the third level. There’s a window on the fourth level directly above her bedroom window. The only other exit is through the basement of the apartment building,” Isaac told him as they scanned the area.

“Isaac, you monitor from the van and let us know of any movement you detect. Blade, you stay out by the back door and I will go in through the open window on the fourth floor and take the stairs down to the third.  I will set up triggers with electric shocks at the door of the apartment first, then I will come back and enter through the bedroom window. Anyone coming out of the apartment will be stunned. Don’t come in unless I give the call. Let’s get going.”

Vic and Blade jumped out of the van and separated once they got close to the apartment. Vic could see shadows passing by Lexi’s apartment windows. He ducked down as he made his way around the side of the building. One of the trees surrounding the building reached nearly as high as the roof of the building. He climbed it easily to the fourth floor and got a leg on the sill of the open window. He entered the apartment quietly. Luckily, it seemed no one was home. He exited the apartment, leaving the door unlocked, and took the stairs quickly down to the third floor. He set the triggers then returned to the fourth floor apartment. He lowered himself down and jimmied the window until the lock broke and he was able to lift it up. He was in great shape. He did a lot of rock climbing back on his home world Decaro when he visited with his cousin Jagger. He peered inside the darkened room. It was a guest bedroom, which was good news.

“I’m in,” he whispered through his earpiece.

*****

Lexi’s head hurt badly. She felt throbbing in her chin and cheek. “What happened?” She opened her eyes and frowned. Why was she lying on her bed? She tried to sit up but found her arms and legs had been tied down.

“You are finally awake. Good, we can now get started.” A man’s voice called from her bathroom.

“Who are you? What do you want?” She tried to keep the panic out of her voice. She was tied down to her bed by a stranger... make that several strangers. She could see movement at the bedroom door and heard someone in her kitchen. This was not good.

The man coming out of the bathroom was short, a little pudgy with a scar across his face. He wore glasses and was clearly going bald. She would have laughed at the thought of this individual as a killer, because his physical appearance was nonthreatening. If he had approached her in some parking lot, she wouldn’t have reached for her mace right away. In any other circumstance the idea of him being a killer was laughable. However, it was the evil look in his eyes as he stared at her from the foot of her bed with the shiny knife he held in his hands that assured her that this man was dangerous.

“I’ll be asking the questions, my dear.” He sat on the edge of the bed next to her, and reached for the zipper on her leather jacket. He slowly lowered the zipper, revealing her bustier.

“What do you want to know?” She didn’t take her eyes off his hands or the knife he held.

“Where is your husband?” he asked.

“I’m not married.”

The man took the knife and placed it at the top middle part of her bustier. “You are playing words with me? I don’t like that.” He pressed the knife down hard, cutting away her bustier and leaving her chest revealed. He moved the knife, placing it against her tender, exposed nipple.

“Please don’t.” Her voice was shaky.

“Your ex-husband, Dan Stratford. Where is he?”

“I don’t know.”

He pressed the knife down just enough to make a small cut. “Where is he?”

“I don’t know!” Her voice rang out with pain.

“Did you see him recently, hear from him?” He made another cut on her other breast.

“Yes! Stop, please!” Lexi had always considered herself a tough person. She had seen some bad shit in her life. But she had never been tied down and hurt in this fashion before. This man was cold and methodical. She had no doubt that he planned to kill her when her usefulness was done.

“You saw him?”

“Yes.”

“When?”

“A few days ago he came by my club wanting some money. I told him I didn’t have the money he wanted. I told him to leave.”

“Did he tell you why he needed the money?”

She had to think quickly about how much to tell the guy. “He just said he was in a lot of trouble and needed to get off the planet. When I didn’t give him the money he wanted he took off.  I haven’t seen him since. I most likely won’t ever hear from him again.”

The man laughed a cold, hard laugh. “Oh, you’ll see him again. A man doesn’t leave a woman like you alone for long.” He leaned down and licked the small droplet of blood from her breast. Lexi had to fight the nausea that rose up into her throat.

“He’ll be back for you. He won’t find you here.”

She gulped. “Where will I be?”

“My boss wants me to bring you to him. We’ll make sure that word gets to your ex where he can find you.” A loud thump made the man leap from the bed.

“What was that?” He asked the man that stood outside her bedroom door.

“I don’t know, Ted. It could be a tree limb hitting the roof.”

“Well, go find out!”

Lexi could hear the other man as he shuffled off to find out what the sound was. How did she get into this situation? The man named Ted gave her a brief look but his focus was on the sounds going on from the other room. A loud crash close by let her know something was happening in her guest bedroom.

“Damn it!” He shut her bedroom door locking it. Then he wedged the dresser over in front of the door. He pulled out a gun from his pants pocket and pointed it at the door as he backed slowly toward the bedroom window. He reached behind him to unlatch the window and started to slowly raise it up.

Boom!
Lexi jerked at her ropes when she heard the sound and vibration of
something hitting the bedroom door hard. She looked over at the man named Ted who had cut her. He looked scared. She wasn’t sure what was on the other side of that door but it had to be better than dealing with an evil ass like Ted.

“Help me!” She screamed as loud as she could.

“You’ll be seeing me again, beautiful. Let your husband know we’re coming for him.” Ted glared at her as he turned and jumped out of the window. At that same moment the bedroom door crashed open and her dresser went sliding across the room. Lexi looked up at a very angry full Decaros with his horns fully extended. For a moment he looked like the very devil himself. He took one look at Lexi’s exposed and bleeding chest. Then he let out a roar so loud it almost hurt her ears.

“Vic — the sirens are getting closer. We got to go!” Someone called from the other side of the door.

Lexi trembled as Vic stomped over to her. He yanked the ropes that tied her down and ripped them easily with his bare hands.
Damn he was really strong.
Those ropes were tied really tight and she had a little rope burn trying to free herself. He lifted Lexi in his arms like she weighed nothing and carried her out of her bedroom.

Lexi was so stunned to be held by him again that she forgot that her chest was still exposed. When she heard a gasp and then Vic growling at someone, she looked down and pulled her jacket as close to closed as she could. The other part of the zipper was caught between their bodies.

“Where are we going?” Lexi asked as they went out the apartment door. He took her down the stairs fast without missing a beat.

“We have to get out of here before the local authority shows up.”

She looked up at him. “Don’t we need the report those creeps to the authority? Do you think they plan to kill Dan?”

Vic shook his head. “If they take him with them he will eventually be killed. These types of criminals never leave witnesses. At this point we don’t know if the ones after Stratford have help inside the authority. Our presence here won’t be tolerated well and if you want to save your ex-husband’s life, we need to keep out of the local authority’s eyes.”

“You’re going to help Dan?” She doubted his intentions toward her ex were that honorable. He had saved her, though.

“We are the only chance he has of surviving.”

Lexi didn’t question him any further as they loaded up in a van. She was in the back with Vic while the other two sat in the front and drove. She quickly zipped up her jacket. It wasn’t until they hit a few bumps in the road that she noticed how painful the leather was against her cuts. “Ouch!”

*****

Vic looked down at Lexi and frowned. He had forgotten she was injured. He reached for the zipper of her coat. “Let me see.”

She tried to shove his hands away. “No way.”

He snorted. “I’ve seen you topless before. Let me look at your cuts.”

“Fine.” She released her tight hold and allowed him to unzip her coat. She turned her head and looked out the window. Her breath caught when she felt the heat from his fingers touch her breast. He gently touched the cuts and she winced.

“The cuts aren’t too deep. Blade, toss me the first aid kit!”

Vic caught the kit and opened it. He found a healing ointment and pulled it out. He squirted a bit on his fingertips then reached over to her and began rubbing it over the cut. The healing gel healed her wound immediately. He couldn’t help but notice how her skin was so soft and silky. Her tips tightened and he heard her catch her breath. He lifted his head to stare into her bright blue eyes but didn’t stop his ministrations in applying the ointment even though he had covered the all the wounds.

He couldn’t resist pulling her nipples. Her eyes sparked with desire. He looked at her nipples with longing. He wanted to suckle her in the worst way.
Damn, she was a sexy woman.
He was on a job and he couldn’t let himself get distracted. He reluctantly zipped her jacket back up.

“The ointment is fast healing. You shouldn’t feel any pain and there’s no sign of scars because we healed it in time. It could have been deeper and a lot worse.” He felt rage that someone would do damage to Lexi and her beautiful body. He had to get this person off the streets so that she would be safe again.

“Hey Vic, where are we headed, man?” Isaac asked from the driver’s seat.

Vic looked into Lexi’s eyes. He watched as she bit her bottom lip and could tell she was trying to decide if she could trust him. He didn’t say anything, but just waited. She finally spoke.

“The marina, pier 57.”

He nodded at her and repeated the directions. Vic hoped that he got to the ex-husband before this drug dealer did. Otherwise, they might not even find a body. He knew that Lexi would be upset by this. He hated that she was involved and especially the fact that she unfortunately still cared about Stratford. He pushed his confusing thoughts aside and tried to concentrate on the job at hand. First thing he had to do was find Stratford.

*****

Lexi watched Vic secretly. The man who tenderly treated her cuts could not be the same devilish-looking one that had barged into her bedroom a little while ago. Somehow those two individuals were one and the same. On top of that, this was also the same man who had made her orgasm at the nightclub like no one ever had. This individual beside her was calm and serious looking. Was it just a façade for what truly was lying within him — something darker, more dangerous? She shivered as she realized that she may not like the answer to that question.