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Except Dagen. He could fuck himself. But me— Ivory was damaged, but Elodie needed to be held, comforted and protected from the big, bad world.
Which side of me would win? I had no idea, but it was going to be an epic boss fight.
15
"A lotof this is useful, if we can believe a word of it." Jake adjusted his reading glasses and pointed at the screen.
He hated wearing them. The fact that he was showed how much material Hutton sent. He either had to wear them, or he’d have a massive headache later.
"Dagen did let him back into the fold pretty quickly," he added.
"I don't think he bought Hutton's loyalty to him for a second," I admitted. "Letting him have access to that information was a test. Hutton failed." Or passed, depending on the criteria. I knew I could trust him. I should have known Dagen wasn’t dumb enough to be fooled.
"So it's probably useless." Jake snatched his glasses off his face and rubbed the bridge of his nose between his thumb and forefinger. "A red herring to feed back to us."
"It's a very extensive red herring if it is," I pointed out. "We can actually confirm quite a bit of that ourselves. Either Hutton was going to pass the test or he was going to be killed. It's possible Dagen thought he had nothing to lose." No, I didn't buy that either. Alistair Dagen was not stupid. This would be a lot easier if he was.
I stopped pacing and sat on the side of the desk. "Somewhere in there is some kind of trap. Something that looks harmless, but when we look into it—"
"It will blow up in our faces. Get us killed," Jake finished for me.
"Killed if we're lucky." I drummed my nails on the desktop. "It's probably best to stop looking at it. Knowing him, it'll be something which would spark our curiosity."
"It wasn't just the cat that curiosity killed," Jake said. "But now I feel like we have a puzzle to solve. See if we can find the deadly clue hidden in the files."
"If you need something to hunt, I could throw you a ball," I said dryly.
He chuckled. "Would you? It's been a while since I've had that much fun. Maybe we could get one of those big, inflatable ones and go to the beach."
"Are we still talking about balls, or something else inflatable?" I teased.
He grinned. "It's not exactly the kind of threesome I have in mind." He ran the tip of his finger over the back of my hand. The touch made me shiver.
"Jake—"
He rose from his chair and moved to stand in front of me. He placed his hands on the desktop to either side of me.
"Shhh." He brought his lips to mine in a whisper soft kiss. It was barely a brush.
Heat flooded right to my core.
He pulled away and looked me in the eyes, conveying a thousand emotions in one glance.
I felt like I lived a hundred lifetimes in that brief moment. Then all of that disappeared when he slammed his mouth against mine.
Where the first kiss was soft and tender, this was fierce and possessive. The alpha wolf claiming what was his.
He snaked a hand around the back of my head. His tongue dipped into my mouth, testing, tasting, running over my lips.
His other hand slid up the outside of my thigh, under my dress. He cupped my ass and gave it a squeeze.
I broke off the kiss. "Jake…"
"Shhh," he said again. He slid his hand from the back of my head, down my arm and onto my other thigh. Slowly, he sank to his knees. He pushed my thighs apart and rubbed the back of his knuckle against the gusset of my panties.
I bit my lip to hold back a groan. I was already panting at his touch.
And he was merciless.
