Crisis Management

Fuck!

The shout woke Sebastian with a flailing start. His arm reached automatically down the side of the mattress, to the knife he kept beneath it.

It wasn’t there.

Alarmed and disoriented and still half-asleep, Sebastian scanned the room. This wasn’t his bed, his flat—

—and then he remembered the hotel, and last night.

Jay sat cross-legged at the foot of the bed, wearing the loose t-shirt and boxers he’d gone to sleep in. His attention was entirely on the phone in his hands; he tapped furiously at the screen, muttering a long string of invective.

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