Page 65 of Breaking the Rules
“You might want to look away,” Kate warned Micah. “The smolder they put off is kind of eye-searing.”
Micah grumbled and got up from the table. “One of us has to get to the office to make sure we still have a functioning company until we destroy it by getting involved with this shit,” he said, buttoning his jacket. “Get me that information, Sinner, and I’ll have Research start on it ASAP.”
“Thanks, Micah,” she called after him as he headed for the door.
Waverly turned her attention back to Xavier. “Are you going to be okay, X?”
“You’ll have to forgive me. I’ve had a lot happen in the last twelve hours,” he said with sarcasm.
“Poor baby. I’ll make it up to you,” she promised.
“I told you it wasn’t a one-time thing,” he smirked.
“Just because we’re having sex doesn’t mean that we’re a couple. It doesn’t even have to mean that we like each other.”
“Oh, we like each other, Angel.”
“So listen, sorry to interrupt your foreplay banter, but you’re not making anything up right now,” Kate said, checking the time on her phone. “We’ve gotta go, Wave.”
Waverly frowned at Kate. “Where?”
“Spa day with Sylvia. She put it in the books with me when you got back. Limo will pick us up here in ten.”
“I’ll go with you,” Xavier said, holding her hips closer.
Waverly smiled up at him. “You can’t, X. I need you to do something else for me.”
“What?”
She dragged him toward the bedroom.
“Nine minutes,” Kate called after her. “Do not get naked! I have a massage booked in an hour.”
Waverly stuck her tongue out at her friend and shut the bedroom door behind her. She sat on the bed while Xavier wandered restlessly. He was trying to process the astronomical amount of information he’d been dealt since last night. The woman he’d resumed a smoking hot sexual relationship with was a spy, and he was about to be party to a kidnapping. It was a lot to take in.What he needed, Waverly decided,was a task to keep him busy.
“Listen, X. I can’t cancel on my mother. She’s doing this as a checkup to make sure I’m taking care of myself and all that. So I need you to go to my house and get the assignment information for Micah.”
“You kept files?”
She nodded. “They’re on an offline hard drive in my study.”
“We can just wait until after the spa and take them to him together,” Xavier argued. She knew what he was doing. He didn’t feel safe leaving her alone.
Waverly grabbed his hand on his next pass around the room. “Brad isn’t going to try for me. Not when I’m about to get him something he wants. The sooner we can get some answers about what he’s actually up to, the sooner we can get out of this mess.”
“What happens then, Waverly?” Xavier knelt on the floor in front of her. “What happens when this is all over?”
She shook her head and pushed her fingers through his hair. “I don’t know. But I do know that I need you.”
He swore quietly. “Tell me where the hard drive is.”
She gave him instructions and a key. “We’re not back together, by the way,” she reminded him.
“Do you mind if I have sex with other women while we’re having sex?” Xavier asked casually.
She saw bloody murder red at just the thought of it. “You’re not putting that anywhere near another woman,” she said, pointing at his crotch.
“I don’t plan to ever again, Angel. And you sure as hell aren’t sleeping with anyone else because I’ll kill them. Which means we are exclusively seeing each other.”
