Chapter 144 – Secrets Overheard

• I cover my mouth with my hand, my fingers brushing against Kent’s bare knee pressed against my face, desperate to hush the sound of my panting breath.
• A string of obscenities flies through my head as I press my eyes shut, praying frantically that Alessi didn’t see me – that he doesn’t peek around the side of Kent’s desk and see him sitting in his desk chair with no pants on.
• Next to me, Kent’s leg begins to shake and tremble. And I know he has precisely the same fear.