Ghost After Dark by Pandora Pine

Author:Pandora Pine [Pine, Pandora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

11

Jude

Jude stayed in the conference room while Kit Savage’s team broke down their sound gear, and Fitzgibbon ordered pizza. Savage, himself, had left the room shortly after Vic Rothschild. When all of the Ghost After Dark crew members were gone, Ronan helped to put the conference room back to rights.

“Are you okay?” Jude asked Cope for what had to be the tenth time in the last hour.

“Yeah, I’m great. I’m not happy with being blindsided by Vic Rothschild showing up, but there was nothing I could do about that.”

“It was a setup from the get-go, in my opinion,” Fitzgibbon said as he walked into the conference room carrying three pizza boxes. Ten and the others followed behind with paper plates and napkins from the break room.

“They were hoping to rattle Cope and put him off his game,” Ronan agreed.

“What did you get from the asshole?” Carson asked.

“Which asshole?” Cope asked with a grin, taking a plate filled with sausage slices from Jude. “There were two.”

Carson snorted a quick laugh. “Either. Both.”

“I could feel that Savage was hiding something. His energy was expectant, like before you shout ‘surprise’ at a birthday party. I didn’t know what was coming with Rothschild. Savage managed to keep that hidden. We won’t know what that thing was since he bounced out of here like a spoiled child.”

“I was getting the same thing from him,” Tennyson said. “Reading Savage felt like looking through a peephole, catching a glimpse of something but then losing it before it crystalized in my mind.”

“Same for us,” Carson said, motioning between himself and Cole. “He’s been taught how to block psychic gifts.”

“Why do you say that?” Ronan asked.

“None of us could get anything from him,” Cope said. “Right now, you’re thinking about grabbing two more slices of pepperoni, but you know you’ll need new pants if you keep eating like this.”

“He’s also thinking about wanting to get some later and not wanting me to think he’s unattractive.” Ten waggled his eyebrows. “As if I could ever feel that way about you, snookums.”

“The Mustang is almost out of gas,” Carson said.

“And you’re worried that the Webster case isn’t going to be as straightforward as you thought it would be.” Cole took a slice of pepper and onion and walked back to his seat.

“See?” Cope said. “We all read different things from you because you broadcast mostly wide open. The only person more open is Fitz. Which, no offense, I could use a little less of, especially where leather riding crops are involved.”

Fitzgibbon blushed hard and fast. He opened his mouth to presumably defend himself but sat back in his seat with a shit-eating grin on his face. “I’ll shoot you the website if you’re interested.”

“Jesus Christ,” Ronan muttered. “Can we get back to the subject at hand?”

“What the hell is the subject?” Cope asked. “What can we do except get ready to do damage control when that podcast episode airs?”

Fitz sat up straight in his seat. He had his game face on.

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