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“You?” Sophia’s sharp question is serious now, all traces of laughter gone.
“Yeah, me. Dante was throttling the life out of Gideon, so I picked up the gun that was on the floor and threatened Dante with it. I mean, it was an empty threat. I couldn’t shoot anyway, even if I wanted to, but I was scared, and it was horrible, and Gideon was…”
“Isla,” Sophia interrupts my mad rambling. “Slow down. Take a breath. Are you okay?”
“Me? I’m fine and dandy.”
“Are you sure? You’re not hurt?”
“No, I’m not hurt, but you could’ve warned me.”
“If I had, would you still have come?”
“No.”
“And that’s why I didn’t warn you of the remote possibility. I didn’t think you would be swept up in their petty argument.”
“Didn’t seem petty to me.”
“Have you never noticed that men can besooodramatic?” she scoffs. “They are worse than women most of the time.”
Chewing my lip, I’m not sure that is accurate in this case. It seems pretty serious. But I don’t know shit about the spy world, so I should keep my trap shut and do what the NDA requires and look the other way.
Too bad, wherever I look right now, there is an attractive, dangerous man waving a gun about. It’s kind of hard to take your eye off the ball.
“Apart from that, how is it going?” Sophia asks after a beat.
Snorting, I reply, “Fine. Your brother is an arse.”
“Tell me something I don’t know. But seriously, Isla, if you want to renegotiate your pay, I’m all ears. Just please don’t leave. He needs you.”
Her desperation is what stops me from telling her to fuck off. It takes me all of five seconds to know I’m not going anywhere. As frightening as today has been, I don’t want to leave.
Twirling the diamond bracelet around my wrist, staring at it, I sigh. “I’m staying.”
“How much more?”
“Nothing,” I huff. “I’m staying because I know he needs me.”
What I don’t say is that I need him too. I couldn’t leave him now if I were held at gunpoint.
Bad choice of words, for sure, but no less accurate.
35
GIDEON
Closing the door to my office as Dante shoves Sebastian into a chair by the fire, I lean against it, contemplating my next move. This day has gone to the dogs. Yesterday, I was secluded from the world, and today everyone and his fucking cat knows where I am.
“Why are you here?”
Silence.
“That is a question for both of you arseholes, so I suggest you both get talking. I’m tired, and this day can fuck off. I’m in no mood to piss about, and I will shoot you both in the head if I lose patience with this, whatever the fuck it is. Both of you showing up on the same day is not a coincidence, so who followed who?”
“I followed Dante,” Sebastian says, with his usual don’t-give-a-fuck attitude. “I knew he was coming to you after I sent him the box.”
“You dick,” Dante hisses.
