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Jet lifted her chin. “This iswork.”
“Mmm. Addie told me she saw you and Shade kissing on the jet in Alaska.”
Jet’s mouth dropped open. “That tattletale. And he kissed me. He grabbed me, and—”
“Oh, so you didn’t kiss him back? There wasn’t any tongue involved?” Hadley cocked a brow.
Suddenly Jet felt like she was being interrogated. “I plead the fifth.”
Hadley snorted.
“And maybe we kissed again last night.”
Hadley’s eyes widened.
Jet held up a hand. “Look, he’s hot.”
“He sure is.”
Now Jet frowned. “Excuse me, don’t you have your own hot guy?”
“I do, but I also have 20:20 vision.”
“Cain’s also dangerous. A loner. He’s married to his dangerous job, and he uses people to get that job done.” Jet shook her head. “He’s a bad bet. I want more than that.”
Hadley touched her shoulder. “You like him.”
She sighed. “I feel…something. Most of the time it’s itchy annoyance. But I mean, who wouldn’t react to the guy. But I’m a tech whiz who works in New York, and he’s a deep-cover spy, addicted to the rush. That’s gotbad ideawritten all over it.” She looked at her friend. “I want to be number one to someone. I want to be the most important thing in their life. The first thing they think of when they wake up, and the last thing they think of when they go to sleep. I want what you have with Bennett. What Devyn and Killian have. Nick and Lainie, and Matteo and Gabbi. And now Bram and Addie.”
“It’s been hard watching everyone fall in love,” Hadley said quietly.
Jet shook her head. “No, it hasn’t. I’m happy for all of you. Ridiculously happy. All it’s done is solidify what I want. I’m not accepting less. My mom always said to hold out for a man who loved all of me, who thinks my quirks are cute.”
Her mom had fallen madly in love with the man who’d fathered Jet. She’d been sure he was her soulmate…until he’d left before Jet had even been born.
Her mom had never gone into detail, but even as a little girl, she knew her mom’s heart and trust had been broken.
“This is also about the douchebag.” Hadley wrinkled her nose like she’d smelled something bad.
“Brandon?” Jet sniffed. “A little. I let all the red flags slide with him, because I wanted to be with someone. He was a lesson, albeit a sucky one.”
“All menaren’tlike Brandon the douche,” Hadley said.
“I know that.”
“But Hex, real love? It isn’t all perfection and grand gestures, either. Sometimes it’s messy, and it’s making mistakes and apologizing, and its compromise, and the little things.”
“I’ve never been in love, Hadley. Guess I’ll have to learn all of that myself, if it ever happens.”
Hadley reached out and hugged her. “It’ll happen. Now, enough talk because you have a plane to catch to Paris.” Hadley let out a gusty sigh. “I love Paris.”
Jet grabbed her laptop bag, and the handle of the suitcase full of clothes suitable for Sara Mardis.
Killian appeared in the doorway. “Do you have the chip?”
She nodded and touched the top pocket of her shirt. The data chip, loaded with top-secret drone tech, was tucked safely inside. “It’s hidden inside a small protective case that has my fake business cards in it. It’s waterproof and shockproof, so it’ll be safe.”
“Ready?” His dark eyes bored into her.
