The cat is out of the bag

"Well, well, well what do we have here?"

He uttered the words that I didn't want to hear and that I had warned Jack would happen if he had continued looking at me the way he had when we entered the basement. Now we would be in trouble because he will be using either of us as blackmail material against the other one.

"Banging the boss now are we? Did he promise you some big promotion or something if you slept with him or..."

He laughed before uttering the rest of the sentence.

"Don't tell me that it is actually for love?"

The best option here was to just stay quiet and hope that this de-escalates the situation and that I can get everyone out of here safely still as that has always been the goal. I looked over to Jack and thought where had all his training gone because at this moment he was helping the enemy and giving him, even more, ammunition that he could use against us.

After quite the awkward silence, he decided that it was probably time to say or do something because he fire