I chuckled quietly in my head, fully aware of the little performance Maya had just put on.
At the same time, Rachel's thoughts reached me clearly, laced with growing suspicion and confusion.
[Why does it look like Boss is trying to seduce Dexter…? Earlier she made him carry her even though she was completely fine… and just now… did she expose herself like that on purpose?]
Rachel's eyes flicked between Maya and me for a brief second.
The pieces were starting to connect in her mind — the clingy piggyback ride, the jealous looks, and now this convenient "accident" with the leaf bra. A complicated expression settled on her face as she tried to make sense of her Boss's increasingly strange behavior around me.
Maya, still holding the leaf bra firmly in place with both hands, kept her gaze lowered in fake embarrassment, apparently unaware — or pretending to be unaware — of how obvious her actions were becoming to the younger woman standing right beside her.
