Exposed (MAC Security 2)

“I think we need to find out if the charity is real before we start speculating, we won’t know until then.” I leaned back in my chair, not looking up. I couldn’t cope with the sympathy in their eyes when they looked at me.

“Yeah, but if it’s Daley using Serena, then should we tell her?” Evan asked.

My nostrils flared as I listened to Evan. Why was it, that he automatically assumed Serena was the one who didn’t know? I saw the look in her eyes when she told me she was Ty’s wife.

I saw that same look in Max’s eyes every day for years. There was no way that I could have been mistaken, I’d seen it too much.

“W

ow.” I lifted my eyes to him, “Really?”

“Wh-What?” Evan frowned.

“Why are you so quick to think it’s him and not her? Maybe she’s the one using it as a cover and he has no idea what is going on right in front of him.” My voice became louder the more I spoke. I was starting to feel out of control and I never felt out of control anymore, at least not like this.

“Yeah, alright then.” Evan snorted, rolling his eyes.

He’d dismissed me completely. I’d never thought that Evan would do that, he’d always listened to me.

I pushed back slowly on my chair, the legs scraping against the floor.

“Kay-”

“No!” I ground out. “I can’t deal with this; I need to…” I took a deep breath and looked around the warehouse, I didn’t know what to do with myself.

I had no idea what I was thinking, what I was doing, or what I was feeling. It was obviously too soon to be talking about her.

“Why don’t you take a break? Go back to the house for a while?” Ty said, standing up. He placed is hand on my lower back, trying to steer me away from the table.

Sparks shot through me at his connection. I gritted my teeth and pulled away, not being able to cope with him touching me at the moment. Nodding my head, I stepped away from the table. I needed to get out of here.

“Want me to join you, chica?” Kitty asked as I rounded the table.

“Sure,” I puffed out and pulled the door open, not waiting for her.

This was one of those times that I just wished I could pick my phone up and call Corey. He’d be able to get through to me, help me sort through all of these whirling thoughts going around in my head.

“She’s right, you know,” Luke said once Kay and Kitty had left the warehouse.

I watched the door, willing my legs to not go after her. I needed to give her time and space, but all I wanted to do was hold her, touch her. That wasn’t what she needed right now and I was constantly reminding myself of that.

“You really think Serena is behind all of this?” Evan asked, his incessant typing stopping for just a moment.

“I don’t know,” I said, squinting my eyes at him and shaking my head. I walked back to my chair and slumped down in it. “I think it’s too much for her to do on her own. I don’t think she’d do that to girls, not after what she went through.”

If Kay knew what Serena had gone through as a teenager, then she probably wouldn’t have been so quick to think that she could be behind it. But she didn’t know, not many people did. I only knew because it was me who picked up the piece’s every time.

“So, where do we go from here?” Luke asked, leaning back in his chair and chewing on the end of his pen.

I could see the fire burning behind his eyes, he didn’t like Serena being back in town. He hadn’t liked her from the first time that he met her, but at the time, I didn’t know why. He told me after I left her that it was because she had come on to him. When he told her no, she threatened to tell me that it was him that had come on to her.

“We need to find out where she is, start to follow all of her movements.” I leaned my head back, blowing out a deep breath.

“Will Kay like that?”

I brought my head back up, my eyes moved to Luke and I raised my brows at him. “It’s the job.”

Shrugging, he pushed back in his chair and stood, “Just asking, boss.”