"You should have told me he was calling," I say.
"I know."
I state, "Before you answered."
"I know." She looks at her hands. Then up at me. "Are you going to hurt me?"
"Do you want me to?"
She exhales slowly.
"Are you angry?"
"Yes."
She nods. Then fear recedes as she leans across the console. She doesn’t ask permission, she just does what she thinks will cool me. Her lips find my jaw. Then my neck. I let her, but I don’t feel a fucking thing.
"Are you proud of me?" she murmurs against my skin.
I put my hand in her hair. Not gently. "You should have told me."
"I know." She pulls back enough to look at my face. Her lipstick is smudged. Her eyes are bright. "But I didn't give you up."
I grab her throat. “And if you do.”
She shakes her head. “I won’t.”
She takes my silence as permission, which it is, and I let my head fall back against the headrest while her lips do all the work. I look at the gray water and think.
Cody has the note now.
He's probably looking at a photograph of it right now in his father's immaculate house and filing it alongside everything else he's been quietly building.
He doesn't know it's me.
Not yet.
"Why are you still reporting to him?" My hand tightens slightly in her hair.
She pulls back and looks up at me through her lashes. Her tongue traces a slow, deliberate line down the center of my chest, and she holds my gaze the entire time.
"Because if I didn't," she says, voice low, "it would be bad for me. I don't want to be in the middle of this, Theo." She reaches for my waistband. "You know I don't."
"And yet."
"And yet." The smile again. "I'm still protecting you."
I look at her for a long moment. She keeps her eyes on me, kissing my V-line and licking it.
"Good girl," I say quietly.
She looks satisfied with that and pulls out my throbbing dick and starts working her mouth on me.
I look at the water, allowing her some fun.
Cody doesn't have the most important piece yet. He doesn't know the man in the library is the same person who put him in a hospital bed. What I love most about this is that Adela has no idea I’m Cody’s teammate. She hasn’t learned that piece of the puzzle yet.
I pull my pants down a little further, giving Serena more room to do her thing. She spits on my cock and works her hand.
