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“Good.” He let out an amused huff and then twitched his fingers at me. “Then welcome back to the South Side Department.”
I immediately got to my feet. And as I straightened to my full height, I decided that this was the last time that I would grovel before anyone. Ever.
Smug victory glittered in Wright’s blue eyes as he took a step closer.
“But never forget…” His mouth twisted in a self-satisfied smile. “You’remycreature now, Sterling.”
Chapter5
Ipressed the edge of the sword across her throat from behind. “You really need to be more careful, spitfire. If I had been anyone else, you would be dead right now.”
Eve flashed me a smirk from over her shoulder. “You sure about that?”
Right as I was about to open my mouth to reply, I felt something sharp nudge me in the stomach. Glancing down, I found the point of a knife positioned at my kidney.
A satisfied smile spread across my lips as I looked back up and met Eve’s gaze again. “Impressive.”
She shot me a cocky grin. “I know.”
While huffing out a laugh, I lowered my sword and instead moved up beside her. She sheathed her knife too as she turned to face me. There was an unusual expression on her beautiful features.
From the day I met her, she had always had a strong sense of control around her. Even when I didn’t know that she was an undercover white boot, I had still gotten the feeling that she was always in complete control of how she reacted to things and what actions she took. But now, ever since she found out the truth about her father and Ulric, it was as if something had snapped inside her. Something huge.
It wasn’t that she had suddenly become unhinged. Just… wilder. Less restrained. Less stifled. And with far fewer fucks to give.
I remembered clearly when I had been in that state of free fall. When I had shed all the rules and restrictions that had been imposed on me. When I had realized that the world was there for my taking. It was certainly an adjustment period. Figuring out who you were. What lines you were willing to cross. And which ones you weren’t. Where you drew the line. How you defined honor.
It was going to be very interesting to see what kind of person Eve developed into now.
Flashing me another smile, she moved as if to head back into her bedroom to get something. I grabbed her elbow while reaching into my pocket and pulling out a small leather-bound journal.
“From Sonia,” I said as I handed it to her.
Her eyes lit up with the most magnificent light as she took it. “Perfect.”
With a wink, she slipped away into her bedroom. I suppressed the urge to chuckle, or maybe shake my head, as I watched her. Eve Sterling was going to become such a menace. And I fucking loved it.
Drifting over to the shelf in her living room, I slid my gaze over the books there while Eve finished getting dressed for our mission tonight. Based on the titles on the spines, they appeared to be romance novels. I pulled one out at random and flipped through it.
A jolt shot through me when I landed on a very descriptive and very…adventuroussex scene. My eyebrows climbed even higher when I realized that it went on for several pages.
“If you need more pointers, I have several other books that I can recommend for you,” Eve’s smug voice suddenly filled the living room.
Turning towards her, I arched an eyebrow and shook the book slightly in the air. “This is what you read, spitfire?”
She lifted one shoulder in a nonchalant shrug. “They’re a hell of a lot more fun than the books on military strategy that you have in your study.”
I chuckled and inclined my head, conceding the point. After flicking one more look down at the page, just for, uhm… research, I closed the book and put it back on the shelf.
Eve was now fully dressed in tight-fitting garments of black and dark red leather. The sight of her in that, combined with the images that her book had planted in my mind, made me want to shove her back into the bedroom and fuck her into oblivion. But unfortunately, we had a job to do.
“Ready?” she asked.
I nodded. “Is there a way to get onto the roof from here?”
Her eyebrows furrowed slightly in confusion, but she replied, “Yeah. Out the back.”
“Then lead the way.”