CHAPTER 269

“Are you insane?” Parker hissed when Talia left to shower.

“I don’t know what you’re so upset about. This was your idea.”

“My idea was to introduce Talia to the other members and their significant others, not ambush her and back her into a corner. And why my place? Why not yours?”

“I thought this would be more comfortable for her,” Carter replied, pacing. “Has she even left the apartment since she’s been here?”

Parker shook his head. “Not that I know of, but I don’t know what she gets up to when I’m at work.”

Carter huffed out a breath.

“What?” Parker asked, his eyebrows drawing together in concern. Carter was behaving very un-Carter-like, and it was freaking him out.

Carter exhaled roughly and threw his hands in the air. “I don’t know what else to do. My dad is breathing down my neck. The press is treating this like a major national security breach, and Talia is not herself. I’m worried.”

Dread thickened in Parker’s gut. If Carter was openly ad