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Marissa hated to admit that he was right.
“I’ll get you there, Iz,” Viktor said confidently.
“I hope so,” Marissa said after she finished her last round. “After this agony you’re putting me through, I better be Bruce fucking Lee when all’s said and done.”
Viktor chuckled as he slung his arm around her and pulledher in for a kiss. They both tensed when they heard a rumbling sound just outside the tactical room.
“What the hell was that?” Marissa asked, on full alert mode.
Viktor sighed heavily. “My guess? Our dear mad scientist just tore up the testing room.”
“Are you talking about Sophie?” Marissa heard something about Viktor recruiting Dr. Leroux, now Dr. Lockwood, for some special projects involving state-of-the-art weapons development.
“Who else?” Viktor said. “Come on. Let’s hope Derek won’t have more ammunition to be pissed at me.”
A crowd was formingin front of the testing room, but the fact that some of the Guardians were sniggering calmed Viktor’s initial sense of dread.
Pushing past Manning, Viktor had to bite his lower lip to avoid laughing outright. Sophie was down on her ass, Maia crouched beside her. His protegé had been released from the hospital just this week, and she was determined to regain her mobility.
Both women were yelling at each other and had soot on their faces.
“I told you the timing was off,” Sophie groused.
“No, you didn’t,” Maia retorted. “You said you weren’t sure with your calculations.”
“Exactly. It wasn’t ready.”
“Well, how was I to know that the timer would exponentially decrease,” Maia raised her voice, cutting Sophie with annoyed blue eyes.
“You insisted on testing it. You wouldn’t listen to me!”
“Well, mumbling isn’t exactly the way to say it’s not ready, is it?”
Viktor, though finding the exchange amusing, decided to step in. “Ladies. Am I assuming the explosive device was not able to make it to the controlled blasting chamber?” He eyed the pit at the end of the room and the crack in the wall.
“Uh, yeah, Viktor,” Maia said sheepishly.
“And who should I charge the damage to? McCord or Lockwood?” Viktor asked.
“Shouldn’t it come out of the cost of doing R&D?” Sophie asked.
Maia nodded her head vigorously and said, “We better get cleaned up, Sophie. The boys will be here soon and I don’t think I want them to discover what happened, do you?”
“You’re right,” Sophie said. “But I can hardly show up at your apartment for dinner in these clothes.”
“What the fuck?” Twin baritone voices roared from the entrance.
Viktor sighed in resignation. Great, Mr. Overprotective and Mr. Overprotective had arrived.
“What the hell happened here?” Derek demanded. He went straight to Sophie, patted her all over as if checking for injuries, and pulled her to her feet. Jack rushed to Maia’s side and did the same. Both men turned their furious glares at Viktor when they were certain their wives were okay.
Viktor laughed and held up his hands. “Don’t look at me. Ask your women.”
Of course, the redhead and the blonde resumed bickering until their husbands had to intervene.
Marissa came up beside him. “Never a dull moment.”
“Tell me about it,” Viktor muttered and turned to the entrance. “Okay, show’s over, folks. Get out of here.”
