Page 29 of Faith

“Um, I thought you knew he had become a little dependent on you. If I didn’t know better, I would have said he was smitten with you.”

She sighed. “Don’t speak such foolishness.” Inwardly she cringed. When she was defensive, she often talked like a reject from an Austen novel. “My advice to you is avoid everything. Take the rest of the week off, and maybe the following week. At least work from home. That way you don’t have to deal with the press. Also, tell David I’m going to shoot him an email with your favorite chocolates?—”

“He’s already got that covered.”

“Well, he doesn’t need my help then.”

“I’m telling him you said that. Thanks for the support.”

“No problem. And, just for the record, I thought he was a little boring too.”

Jules laughed, this time sounding lighter than she had earlier. “Brilliant. Now can you talk our mother down?”

“I’ll call her tomorrow. I have a feeling your mother is in bed.”

“Oh, bloody hell, I didn’t even see the time. That is one good thing about you being in Hawaii.”

As if a time issue would ever stop a Wulf from calling and waking her up. “You need to come over here. You know I don’t like warm weather all that much and I love it here.”

“Sure, sure. Night, Nic.”

“Night, Jules.”

She clicked off her phone.

“So, you thought he was boring, also.”

She glanced at Jensen. “God, yes. I told you that before.”

“But you never said anything to Jules.”

She shrugged. “Whenever Gregor talked to me, I always felt like I was a passenger on the movieAirplanewith Robert Hayes telling me his life story.”

“You never showed it.”

“I was supporting your sister then, as I will now.”

“But wouldn’t it be better if you just told her how much you didn’t like him?”

“First, I’ve learned not to get in the way of any Wulf and what they want. Secondly, I didn’t dislike him. I just felt he was too staid for her. Plus, he was interested in politics, which instantly made me suspicious of him.”

He smiled. “True. Now, when are we meeting Serenity?”

“We’re supposed to meet them in town at about seven. The guys had a job today and they need time to clean up.”

“What is it that they do again?”

She knew he knew. It was his way of putting people in their place. While everyone else let him get away with it, she wouldn’t.

“They perform in a sex circus.”

He blinked. “What?”

“You know very well what they do. They work security, mostly for Conner Dillon. I want you to behave tonight.”

“You are the only woman who says that to me.”

“Outside of your mother.”

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