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Sitting up, she put her feet on the floor. “Like saying he was up in the wee hours talking to One?”
“Doesn’t seem like a big deal.”
“But you figured it out straight away.”
“Because I know how to read between the lines. I know how to pick out important details.”
Three told her that a few days ago. Even she hadn’t realized how it was relevant. Three wouldn’t think she’d talk to Daire. From what he’d seen, her interactions with anyone in the house, other than him, were minimal.
FIVE
TOUCHING THE LOOSE fabric of her shirt, Tess flattened it out on her thigh. “Is there anything… you need to know?”
“You’re not doing that either,” Daire said without even giving the thought time to linger. “You are not my gal on the inside. You push too hard, he’ll be suspicious. You think about distracting him so he doesn’t think too much about what he’s saying, I’ll kill him.”
Distractions in Daire’s mind obviously equaled sex… or something related to it.
“If what I know can help you—”
“Did you forget that we’re all supposed to be on the same side?” he asked. “Harry and Garrick talk to him without me around. I don’t know what they know. They’re handling it.”
Tess would feel better knowing that Daire was involved; that he was the one handling it. He said Three had an agenda with her. If all he meant was sex, he could’ve said that. Expecting a man to try charming his way into her pants was one thing. If he had a larger agenda, she wanted to see it coming.
Daire was Olympus through and through, she just hoped that didn’t equal a blind spot where their backers, or his direct superiors, were concerned.
“I’ve watched you this week,” she said after the tension eased.
“Ditto.”
“When I can, when you’re with your guys… You’re so good at what you do. So patient and thorough.” She opened her palm over the fabric again. “I guess I already knew that about you from other areas you specialize in.”
“Please, no more sex talk,” he said, picking up his pen. “We’re alone in what was our home for weeks. And the door locks. I can only pretend for so long that I’m not thinking about stripping you naked and bending you over something.”
She smiled as he went back to work. “I miss it. Being here with you.”
“Suite your suitor’s got you in is bigger than ten Beasts.”
Not quite. Maybe. Though it was an area where no amount of size comparison would make a difference to how she felt.
“Doesn’t come with you though,” she said.
“Not being together was never gonna be easy. It’s a harder pill to swallow when I know I’d never be able to offer you what he can.”
He muttered the words like they were no big deal, but they hit Tess so hard she sprang to her feet. “Daire Canon, look at me,” she said, striding over to him. He did look up, probably because she’d never said his full name like that before. Crouching next to the dinette, she slid her hand up over his leg under the table. “I don’t give a damn about steam rooms and swimming pools. You know me better than that.” Better than she knew him. Tess had never lied about her identity… not exactly. “There’s a reason I called you my Heart and no flashy billionaire’s going to change that… Nothing will ever change that.”
A moment passed between them. They exchanged a long lingering look that reached inside her, pulling her to him. She wasn’t sure she had anything more to give. Her infatuation with him was insane. He was the closest thing to a friend, to a boyfriend, that she’d ever had. But the obsession was less about what labels she could put on him and much more about how he consumed her whenever they were close. Even when they weren’t, she thought about him, fantasized about him. Everything was him.
Daire inhaled. “You’re being sentimental and all I can think about is how close your mouth is to my cock.”
Sometimes he managed to prove that Danny wasn’t as far from their present as it seemed. Daire smiled, but she smacked his thigh and rose to slide into the dinette opposite him.
“I’m not allowed to talk about sex, but you are?”
His pen was working on the paper again. “Oral doesn’t count.”
“Wish I knew that when I walked in,” she said. “Do you know how fast I can get this bikini off?”
He barely lifted his head when he made quick eye contact. “Yeah, ‘cause I’ve taken it off you before.”
