Chapter 25

Chapter Twenty-Five

Selen picked up her pace when Connor caught up to her in the empty passageway outside the galley. When he sped up to keep up with her, she turned a withering look on him. It felt like someone had turned the heat up.

He tried on a pleasant grin. “Smells like you got a little too close to the kimchi.”

“Then you’re a little too close to me.”

“Fair enough.” He scraped to a stop, hefting the backpack.

Selen stopped a couple meters away, shoulders slumped. “What do you want?”

“To talk about the job. Is that too much?”

“We have one. Isn’t that enough?”

“Normally, yeah. It’s just…all the things you said about Mosiah, and all the things that have happened recently…”

She turned, hands on her slender hips. “Let’s focus on what’s in front of us.”

He took a step. “That’s good advice. And I’m trying to do that.”

“You’re asking about the past.”

“To inform how we plan for the future. This job, what you know about the client: All of that matters.”