AllFreeNovel
Share Us
That was when the scheming and planning began.
Harper did an about-face and almost walked into Logan.
“You need to change,” he said.
Harper glanced down at his clothes. Blood streaked his jeans and shirt. It was still under his nails. Hell, he could still smell it.
He swiped his hand over his face trying to dislodge the grimace. “Yeah. Yeah, I’ll do that.”
“Do I need to bench you?” Logan asked.
Harper’s head snapped up, and he glared at his TL. “What the fuck?”
Logan leaned against floor to ceiling cabinets. “You know, I never thought I’d see the day you got twisted up over a woman.”
“Fuck you.”
Logan snorted and smiled. He fucking smiled.
Harper balled his hands into fists.
“That’s not a bad thing, you know?” Logan’s gaze bored into Harper, seeing more than Harper was comfortable with.
He cared about Robin. He loved her. She hadn’t been what he expected. And while he didn’t like knowing most of his relationship with her was captured on surveillance, he couldn’t say that he’d do anything different. Well, they’d have had a lot more sex, but everything else he wouldn’t change.
Harper didn’t know if he was capable of truly loving someone. He’d never truly tried. What he felt was the closest he’d ever come. Robin had slipped behind his defenses and become important to him. And now she was in danger. Would he really put his pride above her safety?
“I’ll ask again, can you work this? Or should I send you—”
“Let’s get one thing clear, I’m not going anywhere.” Harper had seen how Zora worked. He knew enough of how she thought to know that Robin could be chewed up, spit out, and left for dead because of them. He wouldn’t let that happen.
Logan nodded slowly. “The girls are going to get a kick out of this.”
“Shut up,” Harper mumbled.
Shit.
Robin? With the others?
Logan snorted a laugh.
Diha would take to Robin in an instant. Why did he like the idea of that?
Harper had set out to befriend the female tech for two reasons. One, their success relied heavily on her and having a good relationship with her benefitted their work. And two, she’d been so earnest and genuine, but most of all alone. A lot like Robin. He respected both Diha and Robin for many of the same reasons, but he didn’t feel the same way about Diha as he did for Robin. Diha was like a sister he’d never wanted but loved, anyway. Robin? Robin made him feel like he was at home when he was around her. She made him want things a guy like him probably shouldn’t.
“What’s the latest?” Harper asked. “Are they telling you anything?”
The operators had banned him from speaking to them after trying to get the man listening to the bug in the necklace to feed the audio through the speakers.
“There’s some business about a laptop.” Logan shook his head. “When I ask about how the hostages are, they maintain that they are fine.”
But for how long?
Harper wasn’t sure how Zora could command them to sit back and follow the plane for the purpose of listening to the conversation in the cabin. Daar had just killed his own brother. What made them think he’d hesitate when it came to Jessica, Saaina and Robin?
Logan reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Harper saw Zora’s name on the screen.
“Baruti?” Logan gestured the other man closer and together the three of them squeezed into the rear of the plane, as far from the others as possible. “Hey, Zora. You’re on speaker.”
