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“Get your hands off of me!”
I freeze.
Tempest.
I instantly draw the gun away, thumbing on the safety and jamming it into the waist of my pants at the back. I violently twist her around and keep her pinned to the desk as I grab a handful of the front of her hoodie and leer down into her glaring eyes.
“My, my, my,” I growl quietly. “What thefuckdo we have here?”
“Take. Your. Hands?—”
“As soon as you tell me what the fuck you’re doing in here.”
My eyes slide past her to the mess of papers on my desk and the open drawers.
She was snooping. Looking for something.
Spying.
It’s not the first time the thought has crossed my mind. And in this moment, with her caught red-handed, the idea is suddenly rammed into the front of my brain again.
…The idea that Tempest Black inking her name on that blood maker wasnotsimply because she’s an impetuous agent of chaos, but because somebodywants herto be ushered into my inner circle, so she has access to things she might not otherwise have.
Somebody like her grandfather.
“What were you looking for?” I growl.
Tempest raises her chin defiantly, her eyes locking with mine.
“Nothing.”
“Bullshit.”
“A stamp. I need to mail a letter.”
My lips pull to a hooked, barbed smile. “We’re going to play it like that, are we?”
It suddenly hits me that Tempest is still probably wearing her club dress and heels under the oversized black hoodie.
“Play it like?—”
“Take off your sweatshirt.”
Her cheeks flush.
“Excuse me? Dante, I’m here because Biancabrought mehere. Jesus. She had a bit too much?—”
“More than abit,” I snap. “She’s shitfaced. She doesn’t get like that.”
Tempest glares at me. “So, now I’m a bad influence?”
“Your words.”
She rolls her eyes. “I barely drink myself. And we only came here because she said it was closer than her place and I didn’t want her to go home alone.”
“I see,” I smile thinly. “And at which point in this noble endeavor did you decide to paw through my office?”
I can see the wheels turning in her head. She shrugs casually, but I know people. I can read them like books. This this girl is hiding something.
