Page 63 of Adam’s Obsession

Jack opened his mouth to respond, to agree, to makeAdam’s Kat dance for the little maggots. Before he could, before he couldopen his mouth or nod or—God help him—apply that revolting little filter, Adamshoved past the nerd herd and switched the monitor off.

This caused a chorus of dissent to echo through the lab.Adam ignored the interns and turned on Jack. “What the hell was that?”

“What was what?” Jack backed away from the bear snarling inhis face.

“Don’t give me that.” Adam continued to advance, backingJack into a corner.

“Aw, come on, Adam. It’s just a game.”

“Not acceptable. You work with the woman, for Christ’ssake.”

“That doesn’t keep me from fantasizing about her. We allfantasize about her.” Jack’s words squeezed into tiny little peeps as Adam’sfingers closed around his throat.

Red. Adam saw nothing but red.

Wait. That was probably Jack’s face.

“Adam!” Tristan called from behind them. “Let him go.”

Jack fell with a thud as Adam complied but he kept thelittle worm pinned with his glare. Jack grabbed his neck and glared back. “Idon’t see why it matters to you that we used her in our beta.” Jack pouted. “Imean, what do you care? It’s not like she’s your woman. She’s no one’s woman.”

“She has a boyfriend.” This, Sara sang from the other sideof the room.

Vindication and satisfaction slashed through Adam’s gut.“Yeah. She has a boyfriend.”

“But haven’t you heard?” Kenny—unwisely—added. “It’s some internetrelationship.”

Adam snarled. Kenny wilted.

Jack wisely slipped farther away. “What she needs is a realman.”

Acid churned in Adam’s gut. She has a real man.

But none of these idiots knew it.

Bloody hell. He was trapped between outing theirrelationship and letting these drooling little worms think she was free game.

Hands on his hips, he glared at his brother. “We need totalk.” He turned to Jack and barked, “And you! Erase that damn beta.”

Chapter Thirteen

“I’m going to kill him.” A raw, seething desire for violencescored Adam to the core.

“Well.” Tristan calmly closed the door to his office. “Youcan’t kill him. We need him to write brilliant programs.”

“That,” Adam snarled, “was not a brilliant program. That wasdisgusting.”

“Actually, it is pretty brilliant. You’d see it too if youweren’t so annoyed.”

“Annoyed?” Annoyed didn’t quite seem to describe hisfeelings at the moment.

“Imagine a virtual reality game that lets you includecharacters based on people you know. It’s genius. It will sell like mad.”

“Genius? Bah! You should have seen what he did. He put herin the beta!”

“Did he have her permission?”

“No. Kat would never agree to something like that.”