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so-called phone. Are you sure you had one?”
    “Dash, knock it off and give her the phone back,” Jax warns. “Now.”
    “Relax. I’m just messing with her.” He retrieves my phone from his pocket. “You need to chill out.”
    “You’re chill enough for the both of us,” Jax tells him with his arms crossed. “Now hand over the phone.”
    Dash glowers at Jax, but the look hastily fades as he moves to hand me my phone. But Jax snatches the phone from him before I can get to it.
    “Hey,” I protest, lunging for my phone, but he easily dodges out of the way. Frowning, I fold my arms and scowl at him. “What’s up with all the phone stealing?”
    Ignoring me, Jax shoves my phone into the back pocket of his jeans. “Thanks for keeping an eye on her,” he tells Dash with a drop of sincerity.
    “It’s not like it was that big of a deal.” He throws me another wink. “I mean, I did get to spend the night with a pretty girl.”
    I make a gagging face. “So cheesy.”
    He grins back before strolling out of the room with a swagger. Thad gives me a small, unsure wave before hurrying after him.
    Once they’re gone, Jax releases a stressed breath and pushes the door shut. “Goddammit, he can be such a pain in the ass.”
    I tug on the hem of my plaid shorts, feeling way under dressed in my pajamas compared to his black button-down shirt and dark denim jeans.
    “He’s not that bad. And it was nice of him to come keep an eye on me.”
    He cocks a brow at me. “Not that bad? Really? Did you hear anything he said?”
    “What? He didn’t do anything wrong. He was just joking around with the whole spin the bottle thing and the remark about the kissing … But yeah, anyway, I think it was pretty cool that he stopped whatever he was doing and came here to keep an eye on me.”
    “But the question is, what was he doing before he came here?” He rubs his jawline, staring out the window. “Did you notice the mud on his boots?”
    “I did.” I track his gaze to the forest. “Maybe he was doing something out there.”
    “That’s what I’m afraid of,” Jax mutters, worry creasing his brows.
    “Why?” I ask. “Is there something weird in that forest?”
    He nods. “As of yesterday, there is.”
    “What happened yesterday?”
    “The morgue got moved to somewhere out there.”
    “Into the forest ?”
    “Yeah. It’s not that strange. We move the location all the time.” He looks away from the window, focusing on me. “Look, I know Dash is the fun, funny one, but he also does a lot of questionable stuff. You need to be careful what you do and say around him. I’m hoping you didn’t tell him too much already, like about what was really going on tonight.”
    “I didn’t. But I thought he already knew about the Electi? He was in the room when I …” I stop myself. Now is probably not the greatest time to bring that up.
    He looks me dead in the eye. “When you stabbed me in the back and used truth serum on me.”
    Okay, so we’re doing this now.
    “I’m really sorry,” I say. “I didn’t mean for that to happen.”
    “You didn’t mean to use the truth serum on me?” he asks, doubtful. “How is that even possible?”
    “No, I did mean to use it,” I admit, feeling like an asshole. “I just didn’t mean for everything to go down like it did. I was planning on getting you alone and then using it on you so no one else was around and heard what we were talking about. But then I accidentally bumped you, and then you came into the office, and well …” I shrug, unsure what else to say. “You know the rest.”
    “And just how were you planning to get me alone?”
    “ Huh ?”
    He takes a deliberate step toward me with his eyes on me. “You said you were planning on getting me alone. How were you going to do that?”
    “I don’t know.” I resist the impulse to step back, even though his eyes are super intense right now, like way, way too much to handle intensity. “It wouldn’t be that hard.