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4.
COSTA GRAND RESORT & SPA, KAMARI, SANTORINI, GREECE… A FEW WEEKS LATER…
Enjoying the view as she took in the sun, taking a sip of her drink and relaxing by the pool; Riley lets out a sigh of relief.
“Man, I could get used to this.” Riley says.
“What, soaking in the sun while enjoying a fruit cocktail by the pool ? You don’t say.” Mac teases her, through the comms.
“You are only saying that because you’re in the room and not out here, Mac.” Riley whispers back.
“Well, you insisted I stay behind and watch your back through the hacked camera feed on your rig of the resort and let you handle this solo. I could help out there, Riles. You know that.” Mac tells her.
“Yes but this op is that simple, I think I can handle it by myself. Why else do you think Matty only sent the two of us for this mission ?” Riley replies.
Mac and Riley were currently in Greece - under the guise of being a couple on vacation at the Costa Grand Resort & Spa - for a very easy and simple op, with their room paid for by Russ, which Matty had insisted on.
Their target was Carlos Rodriguez; a shady Greek businessman with suspected ties to organised crime and smuggling weapons into other countries - who was on multiple law enforcement agencies most wanted lists.
Being given a tip by her contacts in the FBI, that Carlos may have evidence of his criminal activities on his phone - which he always has on him - Matty sent Mac and Riley on a two people op to Greece, where Carlos was currently staying in the Costa Grand Resort & Spa.
Get in close and hack all of the data off Carlos’ phone, quick and easy.
The Phoenix will handle the rest once Riley sends over the data.
And for Riley; all that was needed to get the job done, was for her to get close as guest at the resort and hack Rodriguez’s phone without him suspecting a thing.
Before she left her and Mac’s room; she got changed into a red sports bra, with a matching skirt and black sunglasses that very fitting to stand out in around the resort’s pool and bar.
She had saw the way Mac briefly stared at her in the outfit she was wearing and quickly hid her smile before he noticed.
She also set up her rig and hacked the resort’s cameras, allowing Mac to watch her back while they stay in touch through comms.
“By the way; you so much as do anything to my rig…” Riley whispers before Mac cuts her off.
“You’ll end my life with just two keystrokes, I know. Believe me; I have always known since the beginning to never mess with your rig.” Mac jokes with a smile, as does Riley.
About two minutes later; Mac spots Carlos enter the bar.
“Heads up, Riles. On your left.” Mac tells her.
Riley looks to her left and sees Rodriguez with two of his men standing at the bar, ordering a drink.
“I see him. Going in.” Riley whispers, finishing her fruit cocktail and heads over to the bar.
“Careful, Riley. He’s got two guys with him.” Mac replies.
“Don’t worry, I got this.” She whispers back before leaning against the bar - a few feet away from Carlos.
She notices a new bartender has taken over from the previous one that had served her before.
“Yes, my lady ?” The bartender asks in a Greek accent.
“Can I have a small glass of red wine, please ? Thanks.” Riley says.
“Of course. I just need to know what room you are in and see your keycard to prove you are a guest here.” The bartender replies.
“Room 26.” Riley says, showing her room’s keycard.
“Thank you. One red wine coming up.” The bartender replies.
As she waits; Riley discreetly gets her phone out and begins hacking Rodriguez’s phone - who was busy talking with his men to even notice her at first.
“Here you go.” The bartender says, handing Riley her drink.
“Thanks.” Riley replies, paying the guy.
She avoids eye contact with Rodriguez and his men - pretending to be a bystander at the bar who is enjoying her drink - as she keeps an eye on her phone.
“It’s at 40% right now.” She whispers.
“You’re doing good, so far. Keep it up.” Mac replies.
She watches her surroundings, being careful not to make Carlos or his men suspicious.
Unfortunately; Carlos starts to notices her and Riley can see through the corner of her eye, a grin forming his face.
That sent a small shiver down her spine… and made her slightly uncomfortable but she knew had to continue with the mission.
Without directly looking at him; Riley forms a small smile as she takes another sip of her drink.
She takes a quick peek at her phone and notices the data is almost done.
“70%.” She whispers.
“Come on, come on.” Mac replies.
A minute later; Riley hears a small ping from her phone and sees the hack has been completed.
She takes one last sip of her drink and makes a quick getaway from the bar, heading back to her and Mac’s room.
Just as she goes around the corner; Riley notices Carlos whispering something to his men, before finishing his drink and leaves them behind - heading in the same direction as her.
“Mac, I think he’s following me to our room. I noticed the way he whispered something to his men before leaving them there and headed in my direction.” Riley whispers, as she reaches halfway towards her and Mac’s room.
“You think you’ve been made ?” Mac asks, being concerned.
“No, I think he wants something else, which is why he left his men behind.” Riley tells him.
It doesn’t take long for Mac to realise what Riley is referring to.
“Oh, you mean…” Mac says.
“Yep.” Riley says.
“Well; that’s not happening. I won’t let him anywhere near you.” Mac tells her, which brings her some comfort but Riley knows she handle this and comes up with an idea.
“Hang on, coming in now.” Riley says, finally reaching their room.
Opening the door; Riley enters - getting Mac’s attention.
“Take out your comms and hide my rig.” Riley tells him, which Mac immediately does while she takes out hers.
“Ok, now… take off your shirt.” Riley instantly says, surprising Mac.
“Excuse me ?” Mac asks.
“Take off your shirt and give it to me. Now, Mac !” Riley says.
“Ok, ok.” Mac replies, begrudgingly.
Mac does what Riley says and hands his red flannel shirt over to her - giving her a nice view of his bare chest as Riley takes his shirt.
Mac thought he saw her form a smirk on her face for a moment - noticing she had stared at his chest.
She puts Mac’s shirt aside for one moment and turns to face him again.
“Ok, now this…” Riley says, beginning to fiddle with Mac’s good looking hair with her hands.
“Whoa, hey ! What are you doing to my hair, Riley ?” Mac asks.
“It’s gotta look just a tiny bit messy as if we just made out a bit.” Riley tells him.
“You want him to think we’re in the middle of something before he shows up ?” Mac says.
“We are here pretending to be a couple on vacation, after all. You got a better idea ?” Riley asks him.
“No.” Mac simply replies.
“Exactly. Ok; I am gonna head into the bathroom and turn on the shower. When he shows up; I’ll come out out. Just trust me on this and play along.” Riley tells him.
“I always trust you, Riley. You know that.” Mac says.
“Thanks.” Riley replies before grabbing his shirt and heads off into the bathroom, closing the sliding door behind her.
Mac patiently waits for a moment, hearing the shower being turned on as he did - before the knocking on the front door gets his attention.
He figured it was Carlos and so; here he goes again.
Pretending to be Riley’s boyfriend - only this situation felt more awkward and weird than last time, for him.
He opens the door and sees the look on Carlos’ face as they face each other.
“Who the hell are you ?” Carlos asks, surprised to see Mac standing in front of him - shirtless.
“Me ? I’m the guy who’s currently staying in this room with his girlfriend, while we’re on vacation. And you are ?” Mac asks firmly, folding his arms and not looking afraid of Carlos in the slightest.
“Wait, girlfriend ?” Carlos responds in confusion, but immediately after; the two of them can hear Riley’s voice - getting their attention.
“Babe, the shower is getting warmer ! You ready ?” Riley shouts as she opens the sliding door - coming out and turns in the direction of Mac and the other guy.
Upon seeing Riley come out of the bathroom; Mac simply froze as he saw Riley wearing only his red flannel shirt… and from the looks of it, nothing else.
Seeing Riley like this made his eyes shoot up in surprise and Mac felt like fireworks were going off in his head.
The top button of his shirt was purposely undone to show a tiny bit of exposed skin.
But that was nothing compared to her exposed beautiful legs that really got Mac’s attention.
The end of his red flannel shirt barely reached the top of her legs and that only tortured Mac even more.
“Oh, fuck…” Mac couldn’t help but whisper out of his lips as he stared at Riley in pure awe, who simply had a smile on her face.
“Oh, sorry. Didn’t realise someone was at the door. Babe, who’s this ?” Riley says, bringing Mac back to reality as she stood next to him - wrapping her arms around his waist as they turned and faced the guy.
They were playing the part as a couple on vacation really convincing.
Too convincing, Mac couldn’t help but think for a moment.
“I was at the resort’s bar not that long ago. You were there ! Do you not recognise me ?” Carlos says
Riley shook her head - pretending she doesn’t know who he is.
“Nope, sorry. I was only there to relax by the pool and have a quick drink. Don’t remember seeing you there.” Riley lied.
“What ? My lady; you stood at the bar where I was, close by and ordered a red wine. You gave me a quick look like you were trying to get my attention, I swear !” Carlos says.
He was starting to feel embarrassed and Mac and Riley could see that from the look of his face.
Their trick was working.
“Nope, sorry. You’re very sadly mistaken. I really don’t remember seeing you there and I most certainly did not flirt or lead you on. Quite frankly, I am insulted you think I did. I don’t know you, dude.” Riley hits back with a smirk - as did Mac.
“But, I…” Carlos started to say before Mac interrupts him.
“I think it’s time you leave. We don’t want to call security or even the police now, do we ?” Mac suggests, giving Carlos a firm look that he felt a little intimidated by.
“What he said. We don’t want to spend our vacation talking to either the security or the police about this and I think deep down, neither do you. Besides; I have some quality time plans in mind with my man here, as you can see.” Riley says - kissing Mac’s cheek.
Mac tried remain calm but feeling Riley’s lips on his cheek again, only sent off more fireworks in his brain.
“Is that so ?” Mac asks, his eyes turning to her and playing along.
“Mhmmm…” Riley replied with a smirk.
Carlos starts shouting off in Greek as he walks off furiously and in embarrassment - most likely swearing which neither Mac or Riley could understand but they willing to bet that was what he was saying in Greek.
Both couldn’t help but chuckle a bit as Mac closed the door in front of them, as Riley removed her arms around his waist.
“Thank god, that worked. Can’t believe that creep really thought coming here was gonna end well for him.” Riley says, as Mac turned to face her.
“Yeah, though I must ask can we keep this part out of the debrief when we get home ? I rather not talk about this with Matty, if you know what I mean.” Mac tells her.
“Oh, absolutely. But knowing Matty, she probably knows already. You know how she is.” Riley replies.
“True, true…” Mac says.
The two stared in silence for a moment - slightly nodding as both of their eyes tried to resist looking at the other’s bare chest and legs.
“And, uh… for the record; my flannel shirt looks good on you. It uh… really helped sell the part with… you know.” Mac says, feeling awkward a bit.
“Yeah, it’s uh… surprisingly comfortable.” Riley says.
The two nod slightly even more as silence begins to fill the room again.
“I’m uh… gonna jump in the shower real quick. The water is already running and after dealing with that creep, I feel like needing one.” Riley says, putting on a smile and breaking the silence between them.
“Right, yeah… of course.” Mac says, rubbing the back of his neck.
“I’ll give you back your shirt, just give me a minute.” Riley tells him before heading off to the bathroom, taking a quick peek at Mac’s chest without him noticing - as she walked away.
Just as Riley entered the bathroom and closed the sliding door, she took one quick smell of Mac’s flannel shirt and smiled.
She always loved that Mac’s colonge smelled like sandalwood.
She then starts to unbutton the shirt and takes it off.
Hearing the sliding door open, Mac watches his shirt being thrown gently onto the bed nearby.
“There you go !” Riley shouts out to him before turning around and closes the sliding door behind her - not noticing that the door just stops before closing fully, leaving a small opening.
“Thanks.” Mac replies back to her - heading towards the end of the bed to pick up his shirt.
As soon as he does; Mac’s eyes look up and immediately spot the mirror in the corner - showing Riley’s reflection just enough from the bathroom.
He couldn’t help but stare upon seeing Riley’s exposed back as she was using her hands to get her hair ready for the shower.
His eyes roamed down slowly - as if time had slowed down around him - as he took in her beauty.
It was only when he reached the end of her back and started to see her ass - he immediately moved away with his shirt in hand.
Riley thought she heard something and turned slightly, noticing the sliding door open, Mac’s shirt no longer on the bed and the mirror in the corner where she could see her reflection just barely.
Her eyes darted over into the direction where she was just a moment ago with Mac and immediately presumed he might have accidentally saw her through the mirror as he went to pick up his shirt.
Instead of being annoyed or offended by this possibility - Riley formed a smirk before completely closing the sliding door and headed into the shower.
At the same time; Mac felt his heart racing as he leaned against the wall near the bathroom, trying to remain calm and process his thoughts.
“God, she’s beautiful.” His mind told him.
“Yes, she is.” Mac whispers to himself.
“Part of you wishes you could join her in there, don’t you ?” His mind asks.
“Honestly ? Yeah.” Mac whispers.
“Deep down, you know you love her like crazy.” His mind told him.
“Absolutely.” Mac admits.
Continued in the next chapter…