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“I didn’t think I wanted to see her,” she said with a heavy sigh before reaching for my tie, straightening it, and pressing it flat against my shirt. “I honestly thought I’d be happy if I never saw either of them again, but then I heard her voice, it just didn’t sound right. She was upset and teary.”
My brow pinched. “I didn’t take you for one to have your heartstrings tugged on by some tears.”
She pulled back from me and shook her head firmly. “It’s not like her being upset makes me feel bad or anything. It’s more like a feeling that I am missing something.”
That didn’t make me feel any better.
In fact, it gave me a sense of dread I wasn’t expecting, a heavy feeling in my stomach, which I’d learned to take notice of over the years. “When are you planning on seeing her?”
“She said she’d meet me at the party tonight. That we could find a quiet corner to talk,” she explained, though the way her nose scrunched like a little rabbit let me know even she was feeling a certain way about it, and it wasn’t good.
“Tell me.”
She inhaled deeply. “It’s just… she said,at least then Reed will be nearby.” The look on my face must have changed dramatically because she nodded hard. “Yeah. Exactly.”
I was not Jade’s favorite person.
Not by a long shot.
“We’ll be careful,” I concluded. “I’ll be close by. I will also let Karl and some of the security know to be on the lookout.”
Her body slumped. “Okay. I just want to move on. Think about something else.”
“Red. Trolls. That mountain in Japan.”
The corner of her lip curled up, and she raised one eyebrow just slightly. “That’s funny. Last time I asked for a distraction, you practically mauled me with your mouth on the living room sofa.” She began walking backward, out of the bedroom and into the hall.
I tugged at my cufflinks, following her, matching her step for step. “I already made the offer that we could stay home. It’s no longer on the table, and we are now running late.”
“Okay,” she said with a smile, though the smile on her face and the sureness in her tone told me she had yet to admit defeat on this particular topic. “Is that your final decision, or would you like to revisit it before I step out the door?”
I scoffed and rushed forward, wrapping my arms around her and holding her captive. “You know, I find it sexy as hell when you talk in circles around men like Harold Dennison. But it’s not so much fucking fun when you turn that intelligence on me.”
She grinned and ran her tongue along her teeth. “I don’t know what you mean.”
“Mmm…” I hummed, shaking my head. “You ready to go?”
“Yeah.”
I took her hips and turned her toward the exit, allowing her to lead the way as I grabbed my cell from the kitchen counter and switched off a few lights.
“I probably should have taken you up on that first offer to stay home,” Valen commented as she stepped down the stairs to the foyer, and I trotted behind to catch up.
“Why’s that?”
She paused at the front door, turned to face me, and reached between her breasts. “I would have put these on instead,” she said as she slowly dragged something out.
String?
Lace?
It took me a moment to decipher exactly what I was staring at.
Her fucking panties.
Stuffed down her dress.
Which meant…
