we always had a good banter between us; over the past three weeks I had developed a good working relationship with most of the men in the gang. It had been hard at first considering all of them had not only seen me naked, but also having anal sex with Jed. At the same time it had taken me off the pedestal of ‘agent’ and made me just another person.
It was hard to be lofty when someone had seen you take a man in your ass for the first time.
“Come on Tim, we all know that hell will be long, long frozen over before that happens. I don’t think you’ve got that much time left to you.”
I breezed past, on my way to the stairs and the upper offices.
I heard voices as I got close to the president’s office, and I slowed down. Jed’s distinctive rumbling tones talked with the higher pitched but sultry voice of a woman. I hadn’t talked to Kat long enough last night to be able to recognize the timbre of her voice through the wall, but that was the only possibility.
The door was cracked, and I stepped as lightly as I could to try and get closer. I suppose I should have been grateful that the voices were talking and not engaged in moans and crying out in pleasure.
Just as I started to make out some words the floor squeaked loudly.
Fuck. Forgot about that. I’d never had to try and sneak up on that door before.
The voices stopped. I sighed and braced myself before I pushed the door open and entered the office.
Kat and Jed sat across the desk from each other, not a hair misplaced on either of their heads. Either they are astoundingly quick or they haven’t had sex this morning. That didn’t say anything about last night.
“Good morning, Leslie, it’s great to see you again,” Kat said. “I was really hoping we’d have some time for girl talk last night, but Nathan said that you weren’t feeling very good and headed home a little early. How are you doing?”
She just had to be nice, too, didn’t she? Ugh, what a bitch. I tried to keep up my righteous anger, but it was difficult. I settled for being short in my reply.
“Oh, I’m fine.”
They both kept an eye on me as though they expected me to say more. I kept my mouth shut.
“I was just bringing Kat up to speed on current events, Leslie,” Jed said.
“Weren’t you doing that last night? Or were you too busy doing other things?” I couldn’t help the barb.
Jed tried to catch my gaze, but I refused to match him. “Last night we just caught up in the general sense, and got to know each other a little bit again. This morning I was updating her on the news within the club.”
“The news within the club? You mean… Frank getting arrested?”
“She knows, Leslie.” Jed pissed me off with those words more than I could ever describe.
“What do you mean, she knows? That better not mean what I think it means.”
Before I had been the one avoiding Jed’s eyes, but I wasn’t running anymore. He was the one who suddenly found the wall fascinating.
“Please, Leslie,” Kat said. “Don’t blame Jed, I already knew some of it. I’d heard it through my contacts, and I’m smart enough to guess at least a little at the rest. Or at least get close enough to the truth that Jed thought it would be safer to just swear me to secrecy and tell me the whole thing.”
I glared at her. To her credit she didn’t waver one inch. It didn’t endear her to me.
“Why don’t you tell me exactly what you told her, Jed?”
He cleared his throat. “Everything. I didn’t hold anything back. We’re going to need Kat’s help moving forward, and we can’t afford to keep her in the dark about anything.” He saw the way my jaw set. “Leslie, come on. I trust her more than anyone else in the gang. You know that’s saying a lot.”
More than me?
It was unspoken, but I could read the subtext. Jed didn’t trust me anymore, and he needed someone that he could confide in and wouldn’t go running to the feds. I couldn’t be that person for him.
There