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He growled again as he shoved a hand into my hair, grasping with just enough intensity to send a prickle of adrenaline down my spine. His taste was intoxicating, and I felt like I had stepped over the edge of control and into madness as our kiss deepened further with every passing second.
Then suddenly, a loud thumping on the door sounded, and we jumped apart.
Through labored breaths, Gabe muttered the words neither one of us wanted to hear. "We should never have done this."
8
Gabe
I may or may not have royally cocked that up.
What the fuck were you thinking?
I hadn’t been thinking.
I just happened to be looking at the security cameras at the same time she walked by, and Gennifer's words had been playing in my head.
She thought we had a mole. Which meant she was coming for my team. And I needed to make sure they were all covered.
If you think she’s full of shit, why cover your team?
Because I knew Gennifer Goode. Looking good to the Home Secretary was all she cared about. Her star was on the rise, and I had no doubt she’d be willing to burn my team to make it happen.
I could almost hear my sister in my head, telling me not to do what I always did. Try to control the situation.
But I was a creature of habit. Besides, I couldn’t tell the team. I trusted them, but every one of them except for Saff had a liability. King’s was his family. Saint’s was his father. Rook was clean, but his fiancée, Nissa, and her sister were wild cards. And then there was Tabatha. The idea of her betraying me, betraying us, betraying Saffron was too much.
She would never. But she had a lot of liabilities that could be exploited.
I usually preferred agents with no ties, but she’d been special.
You mean she’s always been under your skin.
I’d fucked up just now. I’d only meant to talk to her. Now the scent of her was in my nostrils, and I felt like it was crawling on my goddamned skin.
Get your shit under control, mate.
Ever since she kissed me in that closet, it was like my brain had bloody short-circuited. That was the last shit I needed to happen right now. There were more important things to think about.
Things that mattered to the safety and integrity of this team. If Gennifer Goode was coming for her, I needed to cover her arse.
Unless she’s playing you.
No. Tabatha might have been the most infuriating woman I knew, but she was no traitor. That much I knew in my gut. In my soul.
I needed to get this right if I was going to protect her.
You mean protect Rogues, right?
Yes, protect Rogues.
I needed to focus. But instead of staying focused, I was thinking about how close I came to shagging Tabatha in this office and the taste of her kisses.
I had known that one taste would be the end of me. Because like a moth to a flame, I’d fallen into that fire again. I was an addict after one bloody hit.
Who knew there would be this underlying sweetness and a hint of spice to my butterfly? I just—
Fuck me.
