Page 46 of Night's Fall
I didn’t get to broach them becauseAlekseispoke before me.
“I failed to explain, butIwill now, thoughIsuspect you already knowIalways travel with a security detail.”
Yeah,Ialready knew that, or at least expected it.
“Of course.”
“It depends on whereI’mgoing and whoI’mwith how big that detail is.Tonight, becauseI’mwith you, its four males and two females.”
“Right.”
“Once we go public, you’ll have your own detail.”
Oh boy.
“Uh…okay.”
“I’ll select them for you personally.”
“Um…all right,”Ireplied.
“They’re very good at being circumspect and giving me privacy.You’llget to the point you won’t even know they’re there.”
I doubted that immensely.
Though, this discussion gave me pause to return to somethingI’dresolutely put out of my mind from the momentCatlowered the boom on me.
That being, did he assign a detail to every female he courted?
I wasn’t sure it was time to get into that.
But it was time to get into something else.
“Did you change your plans for me?”Iasked.
“Pardon?”
“Tomorrow, you needing to be off-planet for a morning meeting.Didyou change your plans so you could be with me tonight?”
“Yes.”
Wow.
I shifted my attention from the lights ofBrushIslandgetting closer to watch him navigating the craft, his gaze set to the skyscreen in front of us, his long fingers curled casually around the control, the trajectory we needed to follow so we wouldn’t crash with another craft illuminated on the dash in front of him.
“You didn’t have to do that,”Isaid softly.
“You’re unable to move forward with your designs without seeing troll skin,” he pointed out.
“I could wait.”
“Or you could see the skin and not wait.”
“CanAllainget access to theCatalogues?”
“At my command, yes.”
“So he could have shown them to me.Orsome other admin person at thePalace.Youhave a gazillion of them.”
