Chapter 30

“The first time I met Luke, I almost punched him in the mouth.”

Jameson’s startled laugh made Avery smile. “Really?”

“Mm-hmm.” Avery leaned forward and set his half-empty mug on the table. “We’d just been paired together. He was so full of himself, sure that having the anchor gene made him hot shit and he could do the job better than anyone. Arrogant as all hell.”

Jameson leaned into the back of the couch and propped his head on his hand. He gave Avery his full attention, and Avery mirrored his pose.

“What changed?”

Avery shrugged. “We sequestered. I told him to stop being such a pompous ass, and he realized I wouldn’t take his shit. We spent three days getting to know each other, and by the end of it, we already started a tentative bond, though we didn’t know it at the time.”

“That had to be scary.”