Rory was awake by two, and as he fixed his breakfast he smiled to himself at the events of the morning. He hadn’t planned on showing his bare arse to Bond as a means of enticement just yet, but since it had happened, he went with it. He’d walked as seductively as possible back up those stairs. Bond couldn’t see the broad smile he was wearing. It stretched almost from one ear to the other. The shocked looked on Bond’s face when he’d seen him racing down the stairs almost made him laugh out loud.
He was out of the house by three, and another agent slipped inside to be with Bond until Rory’s stretch of duty began again.
At zero twenty hundred, Rory signaled the agent inside and they exchanged places. As soon as Rory was inside with the door locked and the alarm reset, Bond blurted out, “Man
