The Givenchy Code by Julie Kenner & Jaime Putorti

Author:Julie Kenner & Jaime Putorti
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2005-09-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 34

Oh. My. God.

I lay on the bed, enveloped in the soft cotton terry of the Plaza’s robe. My entire body was limp, sated. But at the same time, an electrical current seemed to shoot through me, filling me up and making every nerve ending tingle.

Wow.

Afterward, he’d rinsed me off thoroughly, guiding the removable showerhead over my entire body. He’d been slow and methodical, and I’d been in heaven.

And the bonus? My mind was now clear as a bell. I’d had a shower and the most intimate of massages. My confidence was renewed, and, more important, I felt completely alive.

In a nutshell, I was a walking advertisement for the joys of sex. Most important, I was primed and ready to crack this code.

Stryker was at the desk, wearing nothing but his jeans, the watch and Jenn’s laptop on the blotter in front of him. When I stood up, he lifted his head and smiled at me, and I swear I almost melted all over again.

No, no, no. Time to get back to work.

“Okay,” I said, pacing in front of the desk. “Let’s go over what we know.” I didn’t wait for him to answer, my thoughts were churning too fast. “A pocket watch set for fifteen after the hour and the initials PSW etched into the cover.”

“In other words, we don’t know much,” he said.

“Bingo.”

“The website?” he suggested. “Maybe we missed something the first time. A clue in the riddle that we missed?”

I ran my fingers though my still-damp hair. “Maybe. I don’t know.”

“What about the car? Could we have missed something? Maybe there was a clue other than the CD?”

“Maybe. But if we’re playing the game—and we certainly seem to be—then the watch should lead somewhere or tell us something.”

“Fair enough,” he said. “I’m still going to run the license plate.”

“Okay by me.”

He drummed his fingers on the desk, then held the watch up and stared at it as if it had been a hypnotist’s prop. “Let’s say we were online. What would you do if you were stumped?”

“Cheat,” I said, the word passing my lips without thought. And that’s when I realized. “Of course!” I said, moving around the desk and urging him out of the chair with my hip so that I could get to the laptop. “How incredibly stupid. A cheat, Stryker. We just need to call in a cheat.”

“A what?”

“Watch,” I said. “I bet I’m right. I’ve got to be right.”

As the laptop booted up, he rested his hands on my shoulders, looking at the screen over my head. It was a nice, intimate moment. If it hadn’t been for the fact that I was running out of time, I would have even called it perfect.

The computer finished booting up, and I pulled up a browser, then clicked over to the PSW website. Then I stopped, my fingers poised over the keys.

“What?”

“I haven’t played in years. I don’t even think my user name’s any good.”

“I’m betting someone’s reinstated you.”

I grimaced. “Reinstated me just long enough to kill me.

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