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"Look, how about tonight? You will have to come to Tabatha Bracknell’s place, for wine, Chinese… Ooh, I can make a curry."
Saff winced. "You know, it's better you don't."
"Look, it won't be my old place, my normal place, but if you come over I'll get to be me for a night. How's that?"
Saff nodded. "Still not letting you cook, but we can order from the curry spot around the corner."
"You have a deal. I love you, and I’m sorry I haven't talked to you sooner."
Saff frowned. "Don't worry about me. I'm worried about you. I don't want you bottling things up. I know that you tend to think that you can handle everything on your own. I'm just trying to remind you that you have a bestie. And married or not, she will ditch her husband any day of the week for you."
I grabbed her into a tight hug. "I love you."
"I love you too." She held on tight and then winced at me. "Are you using a new shampoo?"
I blinked slowly then backed away. "No, why?"
"Your hair smells different."
Fuck, I smelled like Gabe, probably. "Um, maybe it's Tabatha Bracknell’s perfume. Don't you like it?"
She shrugged. "I don't know. It's okay, I guess. It's just different."
I gave her a wan smile. "Let me go grab a quick shower."
She gave me a wave and then turned around. "Don't we have training in a few hours?"
"Yeah, but I'd like to wash Tabatha Bracknell off before I become me again, you know?"
She nodded as if that made perfect sense.
Fuck, I hated lying to her.
Then maybe stop lying. What's the worst that could happen?
"I'll see you tonight." And I would have to tap dance around not telling my best friend I was shagging her brother.
31
Gabe
The way I figured, it was an ambush I didn't see coming. But when I went back to my office, there my sister was propped up where Tabatha's face had been earlier. I stopped short. "Fuck, what are you doing here?"
"Hi, big brother."
"Saff, what's wrong?"
"I'm not sure. You tell me. Is it the fact that my brother, Ops Command, Mr. Control himself, is shagging my best mate, or is it the fact that she's hiding it from me, her best mate, or is it the fact that she's currently on an undercover mission that’s tied up in Oversight coming for us and your wannabe girlfriend has a real hard-on for her? Is it any of those?"
I winced. "She told you?"
She frowned. "That's the best part. She did not tell me. You just did."
I cursed under my breath. "Look, obviously, this wasn't something I planned on happening."
She shook her head. "No, you don't get to say that. For fuck's sake, this is Tabatha."
"You think I don't know that?"
