“Yes, and there could be more of these. I’ll have a cleaning staff swing by your place after while. Stay out of it until they get there. If you have anything you want confidential, move it down here or to the lab where only you have access to. Since it’s Araya’s blood you’re working with, I’ve deleted all other access codes to that section other than my own. It’ll be even safer than my office probably.”
“I’ll do it, I just hope they haven’t already seen more than I wanted disclosed. I’ll have to sit down and think about everything I’ve had out while in the room. I’ll also need to call Brazen to change the rendezvous points since we spoke of them in my room. The whole itinerary will have to change, but at least we caught it in time. Fucking shit. How did they bug my room?”
“I don’t know. I’m still working on that. You know what I know, and I hope we can use this to trace its point of origin. Something this advanced has to have a trail somewhere. I’m going to walk Araya out, and then we can discuss this further,” Hale murmurs while wrapping his arm around my shoulders.
He’s not acting like he knows I’m still confused; he’s acting like my boyfriend. Crap. What a mess.
“I’ll speak to you later, Araya. Thank you for finding this,” Clay asserts while pulling me into a hug.
I just nod while shivering at the thought of spies getting close enough to plant cameras inside the walls of the commander’s apartment.
“You need to check your place too,” I say to Hale as he walks me out.
“I will. I’ll run a sweep of everyone’s place in rank. Those are the ones with the most confidential matters. When you get back, I want you to consider moving into my place. I don’t want you going back below. It would be safer at my place, and it’s bigger than Clay’s. Just come stay with me,” he almost pleads, and now I know what a real mistake it was to fuck him in his damn office.
I braid my wet hair to the side while trying to think of a way out of this mess, and then I see Grayson and Angelica climbing into a SUV.
“We can talk about this when I get back. I’ll see you then,” I mumble, and his arms wrap around my waist as his lips gently stroke mine.
“Don’t forget to call me when you’re done,” he urges, and then his lips take a much stronger hold on mine.
“You riding with us?” Grayson chirps while stifling a grin.
I smile as I pull away and climb into the back, the world’s gravity finding my chest to sit down and rest on. Hale leans into the car while pulling me back to his lips. I can feel his extreme reluctance to let me go, and I can taste the pain I’ll leave behind if this goes wrong.
“I’ll be waiting on you to call,” he breathes, and then my lips fall back on his so I don’t make any more promises.
He withdraws with playfully puckered lips, and those damn things jutted out make me want to attack him again. I just grin my girly grin, and then I wave to him as he shuts the door and Grayson pulls out.
“So you chose Hale?” Angelica muses.
“I still haven’t chosen. Don’t make me think right now, please.”
They both smirk, and Angelica leans over to rest her head on the arm of her hybrid.
I spread out in the backseat, and my eyes tilt downward to remind me of my sleep deprived state. I let the sleep take me away from reality and the grave decision which lies at my feet.
