Chapter 350: Explanations?

"Do you think I should tell him everything?" Athena wiped her mouth elegantly with a serviette and dumped it on the empty plate before her.

She hadn’t known how hungry she was until Aiden had served her a plate of spicy spaghetti with meatballs, gotten from a nearby restaurant. She had been awake for twenty-five minutes.

Beside her on the bed was Ewan, with an empty plate and a naked upper body. Kent had dressed his wounds too before leaving for his hospital.

"I don’t know," Ewan replied after a slight hesitation. "He’s a close family friend. I don’t want my feelings around him to influence your decision." He turned to Aiden. "What do you think? You’re a neutral person."

Aiden shrugged in response, drank from his beer can. "I think we should keep the core details between us. Just tell him to sack the twins. That would make them run, and make it easier to trace them and their stupid lab."

"That might work too," Ewan agreed, peering at his phone when its ringtone pierced the air. Sandro.

"Hey, are you guys done moving in?" he put the call on speaker, seeing Athena’s subtle—or so she thought—effort in eavesdropping.

"Yes. Just putting together some things, making it fit for the boss woman." Zane’s chuckle was heard in the background.

"How is she doing? The surgery done?"

"Yeah," Ewan answered, a frown appearing on his face, one of distaste, as he spoke his next words. "The bastards put six trackers in her. I’m sure they calculated that we might discover their antics and had put multiple to counter our efforts. Those idiots! Those..."

A catch of breath, a seize of words when he felt Athena’s calming touch on his hand.

Stay calm, her beautiful eyes seemed to communicate to him.

touch did to him?

enjoy it? Of course. But it was torture, knowing he couldn’t kiss those succulent lips, that he couldn’t run his hands freely on

She belonged to

"Ewan..."

cleared his throat, ignored Aiden’s scoff, and asked Sandro

was going on on the other side, but he was sure that it had something to

Another indicator that our man is in the seats

Morgan has been flown to a luxurious suite and is taken

Athena’s lips before she could stop it. "Sandro! I never knew you

up, and Aiden burst out into laughter. "Way to go, Athena. You

help it. Neither could I believe he

managed a nervous laugh. Sandro was going to have his ass. But how was he to know his friend would

sounded on the

that Herbert is still waiting for us in his office." Aiden guessed. And

added as she closed the door behind them, then headed in the opposite

Herbert was still pacing in his office when

cause to worry. How are

something wrong with you? Why did you need to call in Kent? Wasn’t Dr. Finn and Linda enough? And

she supposed to start with now? Athena mused, sitting on

with Morgan. The twins too,"

successfully piqued, and sat on the chair. "Tell me more. Do you

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