Page 144 of His Flash Mate
“No.I have other obligations and already spoke to my mom earlier today.She’ll enjoy the visit, though.”
“What obligations?”she asked.
I slowly edged away from them, watching my phone for my car’s progress.Whatever Konni said to her was soft enough that I couldn’t hear, but it had her striding angrily toward the waiting vehicle.I switched over to her ride and gave the driver a generous tip as they drove off.
Konni chuckled, and I looked up to see him watching what I was doing over my shoulder.
My gaze narrowed on him.
He sobered.“You’re mad.”
“Steele likes to keep his talent close,” I mimicked.“We can share a car.”Then I grabbed his arm and pressed close to him with a quick pout.
His eyes started to glitter, and I pushed away from him.He caught my wrist, stopping me from going too far.
“Let go,” I said.
The air around him started to shimmer.
“How far away is the car?”he asked.
“Let go, and I’ll check.”
Instead of listening, he stole my phone, then towed me farther down the sidewalk to the shadowed place between lights, not that it hid us, but it did conceal his heatwaves.
“Humans don’t want possessive mates,” he said.“I understand and respect that.But my kind craves them.Do you know what it does to me when you’re jealous or possessive, Sophia?”His voice grew rougher with each word, and his need burned through me, centering its heat on my shoulder.
The mark.
His mark.
Ourbond.
“The respect I have for you and your request to keep things unofficial is the only thing stopping me from?—”
I clapped a hand over his mouth, and he licked my palm.I didn’t take my hand away.
“You don’t get to be turned on by my anger, Konni,” I said in a harsh whisper.“I don’t have a lot of buttons, but she’s one of them.You say you’re not blind?Do you think that contract really had to be signed tonight?She came here because she didn’t want to be excluded.She hates me because she wants you, and she sees me as an obstacle.Which really makes me wonder what happened during the hiring process because she’s had a problem with me since day one.”
Something flickered in his gaze.
“I knew it!”
I pushed his face away, and he caught my hands.
“Sophia, Steele Corp hired you fairly,” he said.
“Then what was that look for?”
“She overheard my call with Miranda about job openings and that I would tell the hiring manager to pay closer attention to your application.”
A car pulled up in front of us, and the guy rolled down the window to say my name.
“That’s me,” I said, tugging my hands free.
Konni hurried to open the door, then nudged me over to get in, too.
“I’m going to my house,” I said.
