(eng) Martha Carr & Michael Anderle - I Fear no Evil 05 by Tomb Raiding

Author:Tomb Raiding [Raiding, Tomb]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

12

The next day at lunch, Bella eyed Shay with a smirk on her face, like she was watching the most hilarious thing she’d ever seen.

The tomb raider put down her huge pastrami sandwich with a frown. “What? Something I need to know?”

Her gaze flicked to the windows. Nothing but normal passersby. Despite all the times Shay had gone out to eat with her friends, none of them had recognized that she refused to sit with her back to the window. She wasn’t sure what she would tell them if they finally noticed and asked.

Bella shrugged. “It’s just a very big sandwich.”

“Langer’s is famous for their pastrami, and after running all those stairs, I think we could eat every scrap of food in this place and be okay. I know I’m hungry as a starving horse in the desert.”

Janelle and Kara both laughed.

Bella smiled and downed a forkful of her kasha. “You do have a point, and it’s not like you have an ounce of fat on you. Sometimes I think after you’re done working out with us, you go to the college and just spend the rest of the day working out. Shay Carson, super-athlete.”

The university’s gym is nothing compared to what I have in Warehouse One, but yeah, you’re closer to the truth than you realize.

Shay smirked. “I do dabble in a little bit of extra exercise now and again. Nothing wrong with that.”

Janelle took a bite of her modestly-sized turkey sandwich. “Are you addicted to exercise, Shay?”

“I’m not addicted. I just like to keep fit. I need it for work.”

Shay managed not to wince. All these months, and she still screwed things up by saying too much at times.

“Don’t you mostly dig up stuff very slowly with very tiny shovels and brushes?” Janelle looked at Kara, who gave her a quick nod. “Don’t have to be that fit, I’d think. Sounds like something you could do as an old woman.” She waved a hand. “If this is you worrying about your man, you don’t need a man who’ll start looking for someone new the second you gain a few pounds. Trust me. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. Kicked his ass to the curb, girlfriend.”

Shay considered that for a moment. Whatever James’ faults, he didn’t strike her as the kind of man who’d lose interest in her so casually. In everything, he was slow to start, but intense, unyielding, and difficult to stop once he did. Maybe they were more alike than she thought in that sense.

Fuck opposites attract.

Shay shrugged. She needed to paper over this with a good lie. “My fitness is just something I need. I’ve been in…strange situations on the job. You never know when you might need to hike out of a desert and your phone isn’t working.”

“That’s happened to you?”

The tomb raider nodded.

Janelle chuckled. “Archaeology is more dangerous than I would have thought.”

“You’d be surprised.”

A young woman stepped into the deli. She looked Shay’s way, and her face lit up with recognition. It took Shay a few seconds to recognize her as a student from her lecture the other day, Mary.

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