“Absolutely not,” Alisa said through a clenched jaw, and then marched into the first room.
The temptation to laugh faded when I saw Jayden’s eyes light up.
Only after his oily presence receded down the hallway did I walk into my room. I closed my eyes when I heard the slow sound of a zipper in the adjoining room.
The walls were paper fucking thin.
I could hear every inhale of breath Alisa took. Every single note of the music playing from her phone, and her accompanying humming of the lyrics.
When I heard the soft thud of clothing meeting the floor, I couldn’t help a groan.
I couldn’t remember the last time a mission had even elevated my heart rate.
But this one might fucking kill me.
Chapter nineteen
Alisa
Dmitri’s irritated gaze met mine in the hallway.
“Something you want to say?” I asked, crossing my arms.
I’d changed into a dress that was practically nun-like in the concealment of my skin. I hadn’t missed the way Jayden had been eye fucking me.
“Anything amiss?” Dmitri asked quietly, his jaw set in a firm line.
“They went through my things, but didn’t find anything,” I said with a small smile.
Knowledge was power. So I’d been completely unsurprised that when I’d opened my suitcase, there were tells that a guard had gone through my things when he’d transported it to my room.
It appeared he’d been too busy fondling my underwear to find my secret compartments.
After I’d re-read the assignment briefing for the fifth time, I’d started planning which poisons to bring. My deficiency of knowledge regarding this particular type of mission had aninverse effect on the amount of poisons I’d carefully hidden in my suitcase.
I was prepared for anything and from the tension rippling from Dmitri, it appeared my intuition had been right.
A guard approached on our left, ending our private conversation.
We silently followed him through the cathedral height hallway, and I enjoyed the flow of central heating bathing me in warmth.
If I had to deal with the icy glares of Dmitri and the lecherous glances of the distributor who didn’t take me seriously beyond my body, at least I could be grateful that I was in a house that wouldn’t leave me wrapping myself in five layers of blankets because the heater was broken.
That was the only thing I had to look forward to this weekend.
“Alisa, you look lovely,” Jayden said from his perch on the couch. It was blatantly obvious he was mentally undressing my completely covered frame.
A wave of irritation rolled off Dmitri’s face before he masked it with indifference. I couldn’t blame him. The last thing I’d want is to be partnered with someone who had no experience in this type of mission and wasn’t being taken seriously at all.
When Jayden smiled at me and patted the couch cushion right next to him, I held in my cringe.
I selected the chair furthest away from him.
“Can I offer you anything to eat?” Jayden said, his tongue flicking across his utterly punchable lips.
“We didn’t come here foryour hospitality,” Dmitri said, his voice hard. “I want to see the ledgers.”
Jayden’s smile dipped for a moment. “Of course, you can follow me this way, Dmitri.”
