Protecting My Heart From The Jock のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 11 - チャプター 14

SIENNA ~ “Yes,” I replied. “It is because of your brother.” Maya’s face changed so fast it almost looked like someone had put a hand around her throat. The fight drained out of her. What replaced the expression on her face right now was worse. I swallowed hard and kept going before that look could turn into a question I could not answer. “Grant has been manipulating the cameras and taking weird photos of us at the facility,” I said. “He has been stalking I guess and cooking up stories because that is what he does when he needs leverage. I do not know why he had to invent something like that, or to want people to believe there is something going on between me and a twenty-two-year-old rookie. There is not. He wants a headline. That is all this is.” Maya’s face eased. Not all the way but enough. She let out a long breath and shook her head, one hand still on her hip, the other pushing hair off her forehead like she could physically reset the last two minutes. “I have always known

SIENNA ~His face changed.Then it reset, fast, like he had reached for a switch and found it.Whatever had been there when he first saw the box was gone by the time he looked past me. He did not look at me. He looked at Cole like I was part of the doorway.“I’m back,” he said. “I went by your office first. You weren’t there, so I came here.”He was already turning to leave.Cole did not let him.“Come in for a minute,” Cole said. “Shut the door.”Kai paused. His jaw ticked once. Then he stepped past me without his shoulder touching mine, walked into my office like it was just another room in the building, and closed the door behind him.I stayed where I was because moving would have looked like I needed space from him, and I was not going to give him that satisfaction. Cole picked up a printed sheet from the counter, the one Paige’s box had come with, and held it out.Kai took it.He frowned at the header. “What is this?”“Updated fueling contact sheet,” Cole said. “New point person