Taking Shots (Assassins, #1)(94)

“Kick his ass out,” he scoffed as she giggled.

“We only have seven more days.”

“It seems like a life time away.”

“Yeah, it does,” she agreed just as the bus pulled up.

“Shit babe, I gotta go. The bus is here, do you want me to call you when I get to the hotel?”

“No, call me in the morning before you go to practice. I have an early morning so I’ll be up, I’m going to bed.”

“Alright, baby, I miss you, oh did you get my email? The playlist?”

“I did, thank you, I do miss you more Shea.”

“I don’t think so, but hey listen to number eight, that’s how I’m feeling right now.”

“Home, by Blake Shelton? I’ve already listen to the list four times Shea, I know it all.” He smiled, feeling good that she enjoyed his list and emails, “I want you home just as much as you want to be here. Get some rest hot stuff, goodnight.”

“Goodnight baby,” Shea said as he hit end, and walked towards the bus. Everyone was loading up, grins everywhere since they had won. He felt good, a win, a goal, and a goodnight call from his girl.

Life was good.





When the bus pulled up to the Hilton, Shea should have known that Jakob would start bitching. “I wanted to stay at Disneyland!” he complained as they walked off the bus, taking their room cards from the receptionist that stood at the door waiting for them.

“Jakob, we’re here for a night, why does it matter where we sleep?”

“Cause I like Disney. I wanted to see Mickey!”

“You’re hopeless, dude,” Shea said with a laugh as they walked towards the elevators. “I’m so damn tired.”

“Me, too, good game though.”

“It was,” he agreed as they loaded the elevator with a couple of the other guys, heading up to the floor that held their rooms. After getting off the elevator and entering their room, Shea promptly made his way into the bathroom since he had won the coin toss to take a shower first back in the locker room. After getting all cleaned up and shaved since Coach had bitched about the up keep of his face, he came out to see Jakob gawking at his computer.

“You alright, Jake?”

“No, dude. I can’t show you, because that would be rude. But let’s just say Harper took some pictures for me,” he whistled through his teeth, “Some hot pictures.”

Shea laughed as he put a shirt on, “That’s nice, I guess,” he said, and he had to admit, he envied Jakob. He doubt Elli would ever do that for him and if she did, he would probably have a heart attack. Maybe he would ask her to do it for him, since having something he could look at every night before going to bed would probably help him sleep a lot better. Jakob got up, taking his computer into the bathroom with him and Shea laughed as he shook his head. It didn’t take a lot to guess what Jakob was up too.

After getting under the covers, he brought his laptop out of his bag, and loaded it up. He wanted to send Elli an email before bed, so when she checked it in the morning it would bring a smile to her face. He also wanted to send one to Ryan, since Ryan loved getting email’s from him. When the computer loaded up with a cute picture of him kissing Elli’s cheek, her eyes bright with excitement, he clicked on his email, and waited for it all to load.

He heard the shower start up just as his email came up saying he had mail. He clicked his inbox and saw it was from Elli, with a title of ‘For you’. He clicked the email, and then clicked the attachment for it to download as he read the message.

Miss you a lot, hope you enjoy.

Love, Elli.

Love? Hmm. Should he read into that, or was that just a simple closing? When the computer ding saying his attachment was downloaded, a picture of Elli in a bright purple lingerie came up and Shea’s jaw dropped.

Holy Shit.





Chapter 18


Elli had woken up early and went for a run before heading into work. She felt refreshed and ready for the day; she had a full morning, and hoped that Shea would call before things got crazy. Elli had two newborn sessions that morning, and then two weddings late that night. She would have had the assistants cover the newborn shoots, but the two women requested her since she had done their engagement, weddings, and pregnancy pictures, so of course Elli obliged. She was walking into the studio when her phone rang; it was Shea, which surprised her, since it was six where he was.

“Hey!”

“Are you trying to kill me, Eleanor Fisher?” Elli stopped where she was, turning the lights on.

“Um, no, why?”

“What did you think was going to happen when I opened an email from my beautiful girlfriend in nothing but lace?”

Air rushed out of Elli as she braced herself against the doorframe.

Harper! She was gonna kill her!

“I mean, hot damn, baby, I was hard all night! Couldn’t sleep at all!”

“Oh…sorry?”

“Oh, hell no, don’t be sorry, you are just lucky we are over 2,000 miles away from each other, cause if not, I would have you on your back so damn fast your head would spin.”

“Jesus, Shea!” she laughed, but she did get a little hot.

“No baby, really, I’ve been staring at the damn pictures for hours, I even put them on my phone. You’re so freaking hot baby, so hot.”