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Nisha inclined her head toward Phate. “Your boy here is coming back from a date.”
“Yes, as he was supposed to,” Solgre stated simply.
“I guess there’s no decorum where you guys are from?” Nisha snarled.
Tasha wanted to tell her to keep her voice down and not cause attention to an already embarrassing situation, but she couldn’t open her mouth. Her heart was lodged in her throat, and she could barely breathe.
“What are you talking about?” Solgre asked.
Nisha let out a breath and rolled her eyes, refocusing her attention on Phate who took a step back from her glare.
“So, is this how you operate? You fuck my friend, then go out on dates and come waltzing back here in front of her like that’s okay?”
Heat crept over Tasha as embarrassment took hold. “There’s really nothing going on between us,” Tasha whispered. They’d had sex. That’s it, she silently reminded herself.
“We were going to have dinner tonight,” Phate said.
Nisha stabbed a finger at him. “Dinner? After yourotherdate?”
Phate nodded and glanced toward Tasha. She wanted to shrink away from all the crazy.
“Phate needs to date different women. I gave him permission to see Tasha after his date.” Solgre glanced toward Phate. “This is why I told you not to get attached to any of the women here. Problems will only arise. This experiment is becoming complicated.”
“Experiment?” both Nisha and Tasha spurted at the same time.
“We’re dating different women here so we can tell our people how it is,” Phate said.
Tasha’s stomach twisted in an uncomfortable knot. Her vision slowly dimmed as she asked, “Was I an experiment to you, Phate?”
He didn’t answer.
If a pit opened in front of her, she would gladly jump into it, headfirst, if it meant a chance of escaping the most embarrassing thing that had ever happened to her. She’d taken a one-night stand and made up this feeling, this relationship this...everything.
Don’t. Do it. She swallowed. She needed to know. She watched Phate through watery eyes. “Was sex with me an experiment too?”
Solgre scoffed. “Of course, it was. We’ll need to know how compatible sexually we are so we can provide the data needed to make a conclusion if our...people are compatible or not.”
The bags dropped from Nisha’s hand and before Tasha could blink, Nisha’s fist connected with Phate’s jaw. Phate’s head snapped back but he didn’t stumble. He leveled cool eyes on Nisha.
Tasha threw her bags into her apartment and grabbed Nisha by the arm to pull her inside. She would retrieve the other bags later. For now, she needed to get her friend inside and get away from Phate. There were too many thoughts and too much pain for her to process right now.
* * *
AGENT MARGIE SANTANA’Sears perked up.
“We’re dating different women here so we can tell our people how it is.”
That wasn’t something said every day. Even if the targets were from a different country, that statement alone was odd. Could be a language barrier or something else...
And also, fuck Phate. She had been rooting for them as a couple.
Sorta.
She’d been listening in that night when their relationship had taken a physical turn. But she wasn’t a creep or anything. She’d only listened to the kissing part. When the moaning began, she’d done the right thing, kept the tape recorder going and went to take a shower. A long and cold shower.
This was better than a soap opera.
