Pendragon's Heir by Lori Bond

Author:Lori Bond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: CBAY Books
Published: 2019-12-16T16:00:00+00:00

15

WHERE I CORRUPT WILL FOR MY OWN ENDS

THE NEXT MORNING, I WAS WAITING BY THE DOOR WHEN WILL showed up to take me on our morning run. Most mornings he had to bang on the door for half a minute before I opened up. Today, I had it open before he even raised his hand to knock.

“You seem eager.” The shock was written on his face.

“Not to run.” I pulled him into my room, slamming the door behind us. “Percival, shut off every sensor and tracking device in this room. Get out of here and off my tablet too.”

“Yes, my lady,” Percival said. Small red and blue lights all over the room blinked off. I checked on the tablet I’d gotten from Ginny last night, but Percival wasn’t running in the background.

The curious expression on Will’s face had turned to alarm. “Look, I don’t know how comfortable I am with randomly being used for kissing practice, or whatever it was your mom said.”

At any other moment, I would have expired from embarrassment or died from the confirmation that Will wasn’t attracted to me that way. I had more important topics to discuss, but I decided to put him at ease first. “Please, I’m the least attractive person ever born.” I gestured at my unwashed hair. “No doubt you’ll be able to keep your hands to yourself, and I have other stuff on my mind.” I pulled him over to my desk. He couldn’t possibly think I’d want to do anything scandalous somewhere as uncomfortable as my old-fashioned metal desk.

I propped up my tablet and pointed to the lines of code, scrolling up and down so Will got a glimpse of the scope. “That is the dummy code Ginny gave me so I could learn how Percival works. We’re going to make this code not so dumb.”

Will quirked one eyebrow at me because of course he would do something so sexy when I wanted to have a serious conversation. “We?”

“Oh, please. Don’t pretend you don’t have some kind of extensive coding and hacking experience. You’re a super spy from super spy boarding school with the most secret of secret agencies. If you aren’t spending half your day rooting around the Keep systems, then I’m pretty sure you aren’t doing your job.”

Will dropped into my desk chair like I’d somehow punched him in the gut, knocking all the air out of him. We’d been training for weeks now, and I’d never once seen him look even half this defeated after one of our training sessions.

“What did I say?” I asked.

Will put his head in his hands, covering his eyes the same way Arthur did when stressed. Arthur’s mannerisms had rubbed off on all of us.

“I’m not doing my job.”

“What?” I sat my tablet aside, my Percival Project forgotten. “What are you talking about? You’ve been invaluable here, and I’m not talking about the whole vision lodestone thing. No one could have predicted that.”

“Ahmet the LANCE Seer should have Seen it,” Will said with a small smile.

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