“I’m calling security.”
“Be my guest. They love us already.”
Of course they fucking did—goddamn dolphins.
“Well.” Diego pushed to his feet. “Confident or not, we gotta go get a read on these waves either way.”
I groaned, knowing he was right, when my phone buzzed on the nightstand. I saw the name on the screen, and my whole body went stiff.
Diego, the brains of their operation, noticed and left the room. Tanner followed, pouting and takingmypillow with him for no reason at all.
“Thirty minutes,” I said. “Outside.”
“Yes, sir, Captain, sir,” Tanner replied, walking backward. “Tell her I say hi,” he added with a wink.
No way in the Mariana Trench was I doing that.
The door clicked shut. I answered before it could go to voicemail.
“Hey, Mai.”
“You sound like you just woke up.”
“I just woke up.”
“Typical Chase. Don’t you have a competition in a few days?”
“Yes, but we aren’t talking about that. What’s up? Why the call?”
“Nothing! I’m allowed to call my big brother just because I want to talk to him. Don’t make it weird.”
“I’m not making it weird.”
“You’re making it weird. Bet you did that thing where you swam for five hours straight and acted surprised your human body was sore the next day.”
“It was six hours, actually.”
She laughed softly, as she always did. She was always one step ahead of me.
“I’ll give you the medical part on Sunday. That’s the deal.”
I didn’t like it, but I wasn’t going to fight her. “Fine, then why the call?”
A pause filled with the sound of a machine beeping on her end that I didn’t ask about.
“I saw Marcus this morning.”
The room got smaller.
“Yeah?”
“He’s doing the pool work now, the resistance stuff. His shoulder’s better than they thought. Way better.”
“That’s good.”
“He says hi.”
I didn’t have anything to say to that.
