Page 66 of Green Flag
Holding his arms, I lowered so my feet were planted completely on the floor. His hands were still tangled in my hair as he said, “I wasn’t done, Everly.”
My heart was racing, my mind blank with the lack of oxygen from our kiss.
I’d kissed Luca Mendes in public. In front of the whole documentary crew.
Shit.
This might tank the investigation. Or fast-track it. Either way, I couldn’t bring myself to regret it.
“Bravo!” Pedro called, clapping slowly, but it was seconds before Luca was escorting him out of the building.
Luca would be easy to love.
The documentary crew onslaughted Livie with questions as my breathing steadied, but she remained unflustered, sending them on their way with Bella for the tours and mentioning how much of a packed schedule there was to get through.
But she turned to me with a lethal gaze. “Everly Bacque, what have you done?”
Saliha shuffled in her seat at the side, watching on with a grin. She might as well get out her popcorn.
“I…” had no words.
She shook her head and gestured me through one of the doors, throwing a pointed look at Saliha, who only laughed harder.
She was taking me to one of the meeting rooms, tapping on her iPad as we went.
“Am I about to get told off?” I laughed nervously.
Her eyes snapped up to mine before she went tap tap tapping again, stopping at a door that I opened.
“You’re about to be interrogated.”
She didn’t even give me a second to sit my ass down before she stood behind the seat opposite me and asked, “Should I be expecting a sexual harassment suit?”
“Sorry?” I gasped.
Did that not look consensual?
“Everly,” she pressed.
“No!” I cried before thinking back to how, yes, I may have not given Luca much choice there. “I mean, no. Of course not.”
“Good.” She sat down. “How long has this been going on?”
“It hasn’t really been going on…”
She cocked a brow. “Try lying to me again.”
“It hasn’t…” I started, almost scared. “Really been…”
“So, hiding him in your hotel room five weeks ago when he should have been in his trailer at 8 am wasn’t ‘going on’?”
Oh, damn it, she was good.
My face was heating. “I didn’t realise you knew he was there.”
“I heard him laugh.”
My coughing fit hadn’t covered anything.
