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“Aggie?”
I sat up at the sound of Knight’s voice. Climbing out of the bathtub, I pulled open the door and felt my smile slide right off my face when I saw Olivia walk in behind Knight. It was like she had a sense for when any of the guys were going to be alone with me.
“Oh, hey! I was just coming in to find Aggie.” Olivia walked over and looped her arm through mine. “We’re having a girls’ day before she leaves. I have to get in all the girl time I can now. Pretty soon, it’ll just be me and all you men here.”
I looked down at my bare feet and cleared my throat. “And Gracie.”
“I need to talk to Aggie, Olivia.” Knight’s voice was rougher than normal and he looked tense when I glanced up at him. “Now, please.”
Olivia poked me in the side and giggled. “Looks like you’re in trouble. I’ll be waiting just outside for you.”
I stood frozen even after she left the room and Knight closed the door. My heart hammered in my chest as I argued with myself in my head about whether I needed to talk to Knight about my feelings, or not.
“Did you get into the security system again?”
I frowned, thrown off course by his question. “What?”
He moved closer. “Did you hack the system again?”
“No, I’ve been a little busy.” I sat on my bed and waited to see if he would take our time alone to hug me, or even touch me. “What happened?”
“I noticed something in the system that I didn’t like.” He stared at me for a full ten seconds longer, not saying anything. Then, he sighed and reached for the door handle.
I jumped up, seeing an opportunity. “I could look. If you want me to, I mean. I could use the reason to stretch those muscles.”
He shook his head and cast one last look at me. “No. Thanks, though.”
I stared after him when he left and felt a wall start to crack inside me. There didn’t seem to be a reason to talk to them. It looked like they’d all already turned off whatever connection we’d had.
“I’m only saying this to you because you’re leaving and no one would believe you if you told, but I would climb that man in twenty different ways if I could. He ishot.” Olivia fanned herself and giggled. “They all are. It’s against the rules to sleep with clients, but things happen. I wouldn’t even care which one I got. They’re all so, so hot.”
My stomach soured and I stumbled back a step. “I’m going to be sick.”
39
***Zander***
“Canyoutracethebug?” I swallowed half a glass of water and set it down rougher than necessary. I needed something harder, something to dull the throbbing ache in my head.
Knight cut his eyes at me, his anger threatening to breach the surface. “What do you think I’m fucking doing?”
“Alright. Both of you, take a breath.” Kyrin looked around the private room we occupied in the middle of the lunch rush. The restaurant was the closest to our office and we’d needed somewhere away from other eyes and ears.
“We need to find out what day it started and every time it happened.” I was seething. While nothing in our company had been leaked, the fact that we’d somehow let a fox in the henhouse was unacceptable. We vetted our employees so thoroughly that I knew each of us were thinking of one possible fox we’d let in. A little fox who’d been pulling away from us.
“It wasn’t her.” Kyrin proved my point, that we were all thinking about Aggie. “I know we questioned her in the beginning, but come on. We’ve met her entire family and we’ve spent the last few weeks fucking her to sleep every night. We know her.”
Our waiter cleared his throat as he refilled my water glass. “Would you like anything else?”
Knight lifted his eyes from his laptop and pushed his glasses on top of his head. “A horse tranquilizer, if you’ve got it.”
I shook my head at the waiter and glared at my brother. “Keep it together, Knight.”
“No, this is why I should’ve been there when you gave her that goddamn test. I would’ve been able to say with complete confidence that she didn’t do anything while you glanced away.” He rubbed at his eyes and groaned. “She’s been so off. If she wanted to come to us, she would’ve. Right? She’s just using Olivia as an excuse.”
“Motherfucker.” Kyrin’s anger was nearly palpable as he looked over my shoulder. “This is great timing.”
I glanced back and saw none other than Monroe Blake walking towards our private room. Rage immediately tinged the edge of my vision red. I’d hated the man before meeting Aggie. Knowing he’d been inside her at some point made me want to break his face.
