He wasn’t ashamed or embarrassed about the sneakiness—and certainly not about what he intended to do with the recording once he reached home.
He knew that Rhys could never be his anyway, so he was just contenting himself with whatever he could get.
But what this genius had failed to realize was that if he was just going to record the calls for later consumption anyway, Rhys might as well pre-record his lessons after this and have Ren listen to them whenever they were pretend-searching. They didn’t have to risk getting caught whispering to each other through a pair of earpieces, no matter how unobtrusive they were.
Rhys did not point this out to him. Ren might realize it himself later and suggest doing it that way, but Rhys would not be speeding that realization along. He liked being ab
