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“I think they breached our lab and had another one of my stealth drones trailing us. The units still struggle to penetrate dense tree cover, and the infrared mode isn’t fine-tuned yet. So, the world can get fucked until we get to the bottom of this. Everything we did stays between us.”
“Right.” I release a long breath.
But did we have tree cover every time we had sex? The weekend blurs into one long haze of passions.
“They won’t find out, Destiny.” Shepherd’s voice is so gentle. “Even if they did, it’s not true what that rat influencer says, the way she’s framing it. You know that, right? You were chosen for the program on your own merits, your own reputation and image. Hell, I almost made the mistake of locking you out.”
“Lucky you for changing your mind.” I grin.
“Yeah. My point is, the fucking cameafterthat.”
The way he says it is devastating.
It crawls right up in my feelings even more until every last part of me tingles.
Fucking.
It’s the way his lips move around the word, maybe.
Or it’s just the raw, frenzied image of us tangled together, making me half tempted to ask if he wants to do it again.
But my phone buzzes on the table beside me first.
Meghan’s picture-perfect face appears on the icon beside the message, wearing her trademark smile.
A DM answering me.
Smug. Nasty. Triumphant.
One look at Shepherd tells me he knows it’s nothing good.
I swallow nervously as I scan the message and meet his eyes again.
“It’s her. She says she’ll be in Seattle this week for a media convention,” I say, reading the message again. “...and it looks like she’s willing to talk in person.”
15
A Little Confession (Shepherd)
Destiny’s face turns pale as she looks down at the phone in her hand.
I have the irrational urge to fling it aside and haul her into my arms.
I don’t do that, of course.
Because although she’s here in my house, eating the dinner I’ve been working on for four hours since I tossed the meat in the marinade, we set boundaries.
Fucking. Boundaries.
I have no right to cross them, no matter how much it kills me staying on the right side of wrong.
“I should go see her,” she says.
I nod slowly, digesting the news. “Only if I come with.”
Her eyes flick to mine and widen.
“You?” Her lanky dog nudges her nose into Destiny’s palm, and she scratches the husky under the chin. “Do you think that’s a good idea?”
