Parker: A Reed Security Romance by Giulia Lagomarsino

Author:Giulia Lagomarsino [Lagomarsino, Giulia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Parker

I flopped down on my bed after taking my shower, and pulled out the file that Knight had given me about Blake. I still hadn’t made the decision about whether or not I was going to read it. Part of me was very intrigued, but the other part of me couldn’t invade her privacy in that way. And it shouldn’t really matter either. Blake and I were nothing. It didn’t matter if she liked me or if she was a good person. It didn’t matter what happened in the past or even what she did now. We were doing this job together, and then we were done.

I tapped the folder and stood, stepping away from it. I couldn’t do it. It was an invasion of privacy and I would be pissed if someone went digging through my past. A knock on the door drew my attention away from the file, and I quickly answered it, hoping that it was Knight here to tell me that he had something for us to go on.

When I swung the door open and saw Blake standing there, I couldn’t help the grin that split my lips. “Did you come back for seconds? Wait, no, by now it’s thirds? Fourths. I guess that depends if you consider me fingering you as sex.”

She glared at me and shoved past me into the room. “You’re such a pig.”

“And yet here you stand in my room.”

She walked over by the bed and stopped, staring down at the file that laid on top. I watched intently as she slowly picked up the file, wondering what her reaction would be. She flipped it open and then snapped it shut, turning to face me. “Doing a little light reading?”

“I was considering it.”

“And?”

She was pissed. She did a great job of hiding it, but I could tell by the subtle twitch of her right eye and the way she was holding herself. I crossed my arms over my chest and leaned back against the wall, trying to show her that I was calm and cool over all this.

“And I decided that if you wanted to tell me, you would.”

“You expect me to believe that?”

I shrugged. “Either you do or you don’t. I’m not here to make you feel better about anything. Knight says that you’re good and I should trust you.”

“Why would he need you to trust me?” she asked curiously. The way she was looking at me, she wanted to ask me something else. She shifted slightly, showing her unease at the territory we were headed into. She was nervous about something, but if she really was clean like Knight said, then she wouldn’t be nervous talking about this. No, she was nervous because Knight said that I could trust her, which meant that she knew about me, and now she was trying to figure out how to ask me about it.

“Fuck, who told you?”

She shoved her hair behind her ear and cleared her throat uncomfortably. She was great about hiding her emotions about herself, but when confronted about this, she sucked.

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