parallax23 | J is for Jealous

JEALOUS

“So how’d you two crazy kids hook up?” Alec asked.

Being tied up and having a loaded gun aimed at his head wasn’t enough to stifle his sense of humor. Or wipe the smug smile off his face. Been there, done that, had Psy-Ops make him relive it in case he forgot. He watched the sweat matting Logan’s forehead and knew the virus was setting in. This was getting interesting.

“Shut up,” was Logan’s reply.

Alec couldn’t help feeling sorry for the guy. There was no way Max would get back in time to save him. And Alec was finding Logan so amusing. He was half-fainting in the chair since he was burning up with a fever, and really thought he had the X5 right where he wanted him? This was the guy Max wanted to sleep with instead of him? He wasn’t even better looking. The TAC officers were right when they said that the 09ers were defective.

“Just making conversation,” said Alec easily. “Wanna hear how me and Max met? It’s a funny story—”

“No,” snapped Logan. “Don’t you ever shut up?”

That didn’t stop Alec though. He was going to make the most of this situation. Renfro was going to have to take him off probation once this gig was over. Would she assign him a new breeding partner though? He wasn’t sure if that was going to be a good thing or a bad thing.

“See, when Max and her pals blew up the DNA, our sinister director Renfro needed a new way to make her toy soldiers since the factory was out of commission. And she needed a way to unleash her evil bitchy wrath at the same time. So she decided that doing it the old-fashioned way would be a wonderful method of killing two birds with one stone…”

A smarter man would have known better than to taunt the guy wielding the gun with the fact that he had been assigned to sleep with his girlfriend. But this was Alec. He preferred fun to smart if he could help it, since having fun was such a rare thing in his life. Besides, Alec didn’t think Logan had it in him to shoot anyone. Alec had been around enough people, guns and people with really big guns to know that he wasn’t in much danger.

“Yeah, that’s right. I got assigned as her breeding partner,” he finished. “And let me tell you what a wild ride it’s been—”

“That’s enough!” Logan gritted through his teeth. If he didn’t think about shooting him before, he was right then.

Alec smiled and nodded his head as he heard the next round of the gun slip into place. Oh yeah, he had made Logan jealous. Well, it served Logan right for all the trouble he had caused.

Alec was sure Max would have slept with him by now if the cyber-journalist wasn’t around.