Stash started chuckling and Chloe still didn’t get it.
Had she really not noticed? Was she that bad off on needing a man?
I glanced at Stash and grinned evilly since he was still chuckling, and said, “You know, you could help her with her problem.”
That shut him up real quick-like. He suddenly became very busy. Yeah, she was the sort that would scare him half to death. Revenge extracted.
“You really want to go today, sweetheart?” Cole was still pacing and chewing on a nail. He really had a thing for biting.
“I already said that,” I muttered and Brent turned around and held me from behind.
Stash disappeared out the door.
Brent whispered in my ear, “But, last night you said…” He didn’t finish. He didn’t need to. I know what I had said.
I petted his head and kept my gaze on Cole, talking to both of them, since they were both looking slightly panicked…and thoughtful? “Like I said, this will be different. I’ll get to find the bad guys. Not be one of them. It’s win-win.” I smiled.
They kinda stared, mouths slightly opened. Not really an attractive look for them.
I cut the smile out andwhammy,they came back to reality.Very interesting.
I smiled again. Just to…well, be ornery.
They blanked.
Ohhh, I could have so much fun with this.
Zane snapped at me, “Cut it out! I like my friends with brains that work.”
I pouted for real.
It didn’t have quite the same effect. Instead of blanking, they turned to Zane and glared like they wanted to rip him a new one.
I grinned at him. Then, tried not to snicker at his look of disbelief as he glanced back at forth between them.
“Jesus. They’re fucking pussy whipped, and their not even getting any,” he grumbled, walking toward the door. “I don’t even know how the hell that possible.”
“Hey!” Bas hollered, running after him and catching the door before it shut. We all heard his, “How do you know they aren’t having wild, kinky sex in that room?”
Zane grunted. “Believe me, pup. We’d all know if they were going horizontal.”
I blushed and the door shut behind them, muffling whatever Bas’s next comment was. Chloe and Peter pointedly starting picking up their bags, trying not to watch their bosses and the bright red girl staring at the closed door like we all wanted to run after Zane and pummel him. It’s not my fault that when I get excited things…just kind of erupt from my mouth. Or flustered. Or embarrassed.
Hmm, it’s best not to dwell.
***
Zane andBas were talking quietly by the elevator, waiting. They looked amused, too. I would have thought they would have gone to the lobby to wait. Or gone to get the enormous conversion fan their staff had driven down.
Oh, well.
When we all piled in the elevator, I was by the buttons so I pressed “L” and the doors shut.
Silence.
Then, a resounding ring of curses zinged around the confines of the elevator.Lots of curses.
I stared at two blown up pictures. One taped to the back of each elevator door. The one on the left was the first snapshot that Stash had taken of Brent reading and Cole typing on his laptop in my bed, looking very naked, except for the sheet that covered their waists. The one of the right was of them, taken from the chest up, sleeping peacefully, practically face to face. I was nowhere to be seen since I had been sleeping lower on the bed.Oh. This wasn’t good.
