“Commander Asher would like to debrief with both of you in an hour,” Adam finally said as he pulled through the gates of the compound, but he seemed to hesitate as to which direction to go from there. “Where would you like me to drop you, Maddie?”
She glanced between Adam’s studiously bland expression and Finn’s shit-eating grin, and then turned to Jack. “My quarters would be fine. Were you thinking of taking me somewhere else?”
“Nope.” Finn’s grin widened. “Just checking.”
Jack had had enough of the odd behavior. “What the hell is your problem, brother?”
Finn cleared his throat and tried to smother his smile. “Just glad you two have finally worked out your issues. That’s all, brah.”
“And how exactly would you know anything about our issues?” Maddie asked, her cheeks flushing.
But before she even finished asking the question, Jack suddenly realized why they were acting so strangely. “Bloody hell. Who saw us?”
“Sawus?” Maddie echoed, her voice shrill.
“The jet has security cameras in the cabin,” Jack mumbled, feeling like an asshole of the lowest order for exposing Maddie to her fellow Templars.
Her eyes went wide, her mouth dropping open on a gasp. “Are you fuckingkiddingme?” Then she started smacking Finn on the back of the head, shoulders, anywhere she could make contact. “And you watched us, you little perv?”
“We didn’t watch.” Finn laughed, holding his hands up in surrender against Maddie’s onslaught. “When I saw what was going on, I tanked the footage. But, yeah, Adam and I caught a glimpse. Sorry—ow! Damn, Maddie. It’s not like we were expecting you guys to be getting busy in the jet. Shit.”
“You’re sure the security footage has been erased?” Jack demanded as they reached the building that housed the barracks for the initiates and Templars too new to have earned their own private estates within the exclusive gated community.
“If I’m lyin’, I’m dyin’,” Finn vowed.
In spite of his assurances, Maddie still pegged them both with an angry glare as she got out of the car. Jack hopped out with her, grabbing her bags from the back of the SUV before carrying them to the door.
“I’m sorry,” he told her sincerely. “I didn’t even think about the security footage. Please forgive me, Maddie, love—”
Without warning, she grabbed the front of his T-shirt and yanked him to her, laying a hungry kiss on him that left him speechless. She gave him a saucy grin, then sent a wink toward the guys in the SUV.
“Go brag to your boys, you sexy beast,” she told him, giving him a swat on the ass. “Theywishthey could be half the lover you are.”
He laughed at her playfulness and was shaking his head as he jogged back to the SUV and hopped inside. When Finn and Adam both turned in their seats to give him a questioning look, Jack lifted a single brow.
Adam muttered something in Japanese that Jack didn’t quite catch before turning around to continue the drive to Jack’s place. But Finn was far more pointed.
“Dude,” he said, his voice carrying a note of awe. “Dude. You aresomy hero . . .”
