Page 31 of Her Forbidden Shifters
“What do you have that would help?” Jacob asked.
I shrugged and readjusted myself on the floor. My butt was starting to go numb from sitting on the hard floor. Even still, it was the best option. The last thing I wanted was to sit next to any of the men. Call me salty, but I was still aggravated with their behaviors from earlier. “The only thing we have in the way of proving the crime happened was the video.”
“Problem,” Noah said. “I never recorded our chats.”
I nodded. “There goes that.”
“Back to the drawing board,” Liam said, sitting forward. “Got any more of that?”
He pointed to my coffee mug.
I nodded and stood from my seat on the floor. “Three more coffees coming right up.”
As I poured the cups, I realized my night with Liam was as good as over. That didn’t bother me so much anymore. I was more concerned with getting more rest than anything, and with the way things were looking, sleep was a far off wish.
12
LIAM
“There is still one thing that doesn’t make sense about all of this,” Jacob said, waving his hand in front of him in a wide circle, indicating the whole room. He settled his attention on me. “And that is how the hell you ended up here.”
I didn’t believe I owed him an explanation. Judging by Savannah’s previous statement regarding the matter, she felt the same exact way.
“Still, none of your business,” Savannah said as she walked back into the living room, carrying two cups of coffee. She passed one to me and then handed one off to Noah.
“Where’s mine?” Jacob asked.
“Never arriving if you don’t stop insisting on getting an answer on why I slept with our boss.”
“Which was against protocols,” he added.
“And completely necessary,” she finalized as she headed into the kitchen.
Jacob twisted to face me. “Care to fill in the blank?”
I shook my head and took a sip of the coffee before setting it on the table in front of me. By the time I leaned back against the couch, Savannah returned with one last cup and passed it to Jacob. “Here’s your damn coffee.”
I smirked to myself as she ignored the wounded expression on his face and retook her seat back on the floor.
“You can sit here if you want,” I said.
She waved my comment away with one hand and picked up her mug with the other. “I’m fine here.”
“You were banged up pretty badly earlier, weren’t you?” Noah asked Savannah.
He had been watching her every move since he pushed his way into her home. Though I didn’t see him actually do that, I wouldn’t have put it past him to have done such a thing. He struck me as a guy that thought he could get away with murder just because he had the money to make it all disappear. I hated that he was carefully watching every move that she made, studying her features. It nearly made me growl.
She nodded. “I was a bit closer to death than I was comfortable with. Yes. Why?”
Noah nodded to Jacob. “There’s your answer on why she slept with Boss Man.”
I pinched the bridge of my nose and huffed. Tension filled my shoulders.
“Leave it to the dragon to figure it out,” Jacob said.
Noah chuckled under his breath. “It has little to do with me being a dragon and more to do with the fact that I know her, and she wouldn’t break a single rule unless it was a matter of life or death.”
Whatever. I refused to feel guilty at all for my actions. I did what I did, and I would do it again in a heartbeat, regardless of protocol. And I almost had. But Jacob and Noah insisted on showing up at the wrong moment.
