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Pool.”
She laughed. “You’re excited. Come on. Admit it.”
He set her on her feet, but didn’t let her go. Up close, he could look into the blue of her eyes. She was very pretty, with enough curves to draw attention. She whined about being fat all the time, but dance kept her body toned and muscled.
After catching him with Adam, she’d offered to continue playing the role of his girlfriend. It let him keep his secret from his brothers, but it also kept her from going out and meeting a guy who would care about what she had to offer.
This whole setup was so wrong. “I hate using you,” he said.
“Do you want to have an epic breakup?”
“You deserve to date a guy who likes you.”
“So do you.”
Nick clamped his mouth shut and turned back to the path, slapping the next stone into place.
“We can stop if you want,” said Quinn. “I’ll go back to nightly screaming matches with my mother, you go back to screwing easy girls so you look like a total player.”
“Quinn. I was not—”
“Maybe you weren’t sleeping with them, but you were using them just the same.” At his fierce look, she gave him one right back. “They might not have known the truth about you, but it doesn’t make it any different.”
“I wasn’t using them.”
“Yes. You were.”
o;Collateral damage. Kate lost sight of our goal here.”
Gareth nodded. “It happens.”
And it did. Not often, luckily, but their connection to human-ity sometimes left them vulnerable to the weaknesses of others.
Silver had been doing this long enough to have lost any em-pathy for humans.
So had Gareth.
He gathered his papers and slipped them back into his briefcase. “Are you ready to get out of here?”
Silver nodded. “What is our plan?”
Gareth stood. “Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Make it look like you’re having trouble breathing.”
One thing Silver had always been good at—following orders.
He pressed a panicked hand to his throat and sucked in a long rush of air.
Gareth’s power latched on to that air, feeling it move into Silver’s lungs, making them expand, exchanging oxygen for carbon dioxide.
Silver felt that power. His eyes snapped open.
“Again,” Gareth said, keeping his voice even, reassuring. His power filled the air in the room. This was all part of his plan.
“I’m going to call for help in a moment.”
Another breath.
“One more,” said Gareth. He moved toward the door. “Hold it. Pretend you can’t breathe.”
