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Yet they were both smiling, too. Well, the corner of Irish’s mouth had a little uptick, not like the wide smile on Cass’s face.
Eveline was missing something, but she didn’t have the brain space to worry about it.
“I’m sorry, but you can’t dictate if I’m going to stay in my job or not. It’s not you who had your head bashed into a wall. And it’s not you whose apartment was violated in a way that you never want to set foot into it again. All of that happened to me.” She poked a finger in her chest. “Me.”
By the time she’d finished her tirade at Angel, Kyle was beside her, pulling her chair away from the table and lifting her to a standing position. His fingers brushed away the tears she hadn’t even known were trickling down her face.
“No one is going to make you do anything you don’t want to do.” He hooked an arm around her, bringing her flush against him. “This meeting is over,” he said, then had them moving toward the door before anyone could say anything.
The trip to Kyle’s office was quick, and the second he seated her on the couch, Eveline finally took a breath.
“I don’t know why I cried,” she said after a few moments. “I didn’t even know I did it.”
“Nothing to apologize for. I’m the one who should be apologizing for what Angel said, and trust me, he’s going to hear from me again that his idea is not one to consider. Cass is on the job; she’ll find out what we need.”
Eveline recalled how tired the other woman had seemed. Not to mention that she probably hadn’t been feeling well recently, according to what Kyle had asked her when she first arrived.
“It shouldn’t just be up to her. I can help. I want to. No, I need to help.”
With the way they all relied on Cass, Eveline had to assume that her computer skills were impressive, and while hers were adequate, she was more than likely not up to Cass’s skill level.
Angel’s words came back to her. Was he right, though? Would it be better if she stayed with Triple Z and got information from the inside to help with blowing wide open what Gerald was doing and making sure that people didn’t get unnecessarily hurt?
“Why is he doing it?” she muttered. “Why is Gerald hurting his clients?”
“That’s the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question, isn’t it? Apart from the monetary benefit of providing extra services, there’s a chance that people will talk, and it will get out that his security services aren’t stellar if his clients are getting injured.”
“Right. It doesn’t make sense. What’s motivating it? The business was doing well, as far as I could tell, there’s no possible reason for him to stoop to something like this.” Even talking it out with Kyle, Eveline still couldn’t see a reason for her boss’s actions. “Do you really think he sent someone to hurt me and then wreck my apartment?” Eveline asked, the question burning in her mind the more she thought about Gerald and his business practices.
“I don’t want to scare you, but yes I think he did. I think he knows that you took the information. Maybe he was hoping that you’d come back to work and own up to what you did.”
“As if I’d do that,” she scoffed. “What he’s doing is wrong, and he should be exposed. You should do it. You should expose him. It’s not fair to clients or fair to the security industry.”
Kyle tensed. “Why do you want me to do that?”
No matter how much Ox wanted to believe that Eveline wasn’t playing him, she’d just said the words he’d been fearing would come from her. The very reason he’d been reluctant to believe she was part of a bigger ploy.
Yet if she was, she’d go back to her job, not have yelled at Angel the way she had.
It was pointless going back and forth. Ox had committed to trusting Eveline and believing that she wasn’t part of a bigger plan, and he needed to stop letting his past override him.
Yes, Viviana had played his Delta team. Given them intel about the group of terrorists they were after, while at the same time feeding information about them and their plans to the very group they were there to eliminate.
Eveline wasn’t Viviana, and he had to keep remembering that.
“I already said why—it’s wrong what Gerald’s doing. I think most of the guys are in on it too. There’s been a lot of turnover recently, and the new guys coming in aren’t like the previous security guys we’ve had. They seem…I don’t know… rough. Edgy.”
Ox went over to his desk, grabbing a notepad and pen. He handed them to Eveline and sat beside her again, this time not quite as close. “Write their names down, and I’ll get one of the guys to run a background check.”
“I’m pretty sure they already had checks done prior to Gerald employing them.”
“Did he though?” he countered. “Besides, this is for us and your case.”
Eveline pressed the pen against her lip. A completely innocent gesture, but it drew his attention to her mouth, reminding him of the way it’d felt beneath his. The tiny moans she’d made as he kissed his way down her neck. The way her body fitted perfectly against his.
Stop! Not the time.
His mind may think that, but his body had other ideas, especially his cock that was now hard.
