Showing her the black-market virus wasn’t part of the plan, but it seemed like the natural thing to do at the time. Thankfully the guys didn’t hold it against me and played along. They must have seen how freaked out she was getting.
“I saw an opportunity to get her to come along rather than k********g her.”
“Smooth. Are you sure we should trust the bear in there who grunts rather than speaks to be alone with someone as sweet as Jemma? He might scare her.”
“She’ll be fine. Daemon might be less than polished, but he’s not a brute. Just terribly frank.”
“Which scares the s**t out of me.” I don’t need to say what we are both thinkings. “We should have drawn straws or something to decide who got to stay with her.”
“Real mature.”
Warren places another mug of coffee in front o
