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Finessing around the subject wasn’t going to do either of them any favors. “There were listening devices in both.”
“What do you mean listening devices?”
“High-tech micro-sized microphones that transmit to a receiver.”
“I know what a listening device is.” She gave him a look that said she wasn’t impressed. “I just don’t understand how you’re telling me there was one on my purse and phone stand.”
“Someone has been spying on you.”
Jenna’s lovely features leached of color. “No. That’s not possible.”
“Yes.”
“But how could you know?”
No doubt Konstantin would expect Dimitri to lie, but Dimitri knew that Jenna wasn’t going to put her BFF at any more at risk than the rest of them would. She wasn’t going to go calling Nataliya the moment he and she were done talking.
So he told her about the leaks and Konstantin’s certainty they were somehow coming from her.
“You’re saying Prince Konstantin thoughtIwas leaking stuff to the press, aboutyourfamily and Mirrus Global?” Jenna asked in a flat tone he’d never heard from her before.
“He wasn’t convinced it was you personally, but yes, he knew it was coming via you. Somehow. And it did,” he pointed out. She couldn’t be offended at the truth.
Jenna was far too pragmatic a woman to be that dramatic.
“Youthought I was the leak, and you slept with me?” Her tone wasn’t flat now, but near shouting.
“Clearly not. I wouldn’t have been searching your handbag if I did, or have my security searching your apartment.” What did she think? That he didn’t know her at all?
“You have security men searching my apartment?” she asked, sounding even angrier, certainly not mollified by that news. “How did they get in?”
He just looked at her.
“Fine, they have their ways.” She stared around her like she was horrified, and having a difficult time taking his words in. “I can’t believe you’ve had strangers pawing through my stuff without even telling me first.”
Jenna was focusing on the wrong issue here, and it surprised him.
“They aren’t strangers,” he assured her. “It’s my personal security team. You’ve met them before. You talk to them.”
He didn’t mention he couldn’t risk telling her if she was the actual leak. Her current reaction indicated that wouldn’t go over well. At all.
She was responding with unexpected emotion. He’d thought she would be hurt, but because she was being spied on, not because he was trying to figure out what was going on.
“Oh, that makes it so much better.” Her tone said the exact opposite.
“Jenna, if you just look at this situation rationally, you’ll see I took the best course of action.”
“No. No. No.” She shook her head. “You are not standing there telling me you had sex with me to figure out if I was some sort of spy and that it was thebestyou could come up with.”
“Of course not. I had sex with you because I want you. You want me too.”
“You used it as a diversion to get me out of my apartment.”
He couldn’t deny that, but it was not the whole truth, or even the most salient truth. What could he say that would not dig him deeper in this pit he had never thought he would find himself in?
“You and I were both done dancing around this attraction between us.”
The expression on Jenna’s face said those were not the right words.
