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I pick up my office phone, but hesitate. I can’t even make a phone call without someone possibly knowing. Instead, I grab both my phones and head out. My dirty little secret is out of the bag. I can meet him at the front door and parade him through every floor if I want to.

But first, I need my FBI agent to fumigate my office for bugs.

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Eli

How the hell did someone get into her office? And when?

“I can’t believe it,” she whispers.

I narrow my eyes. “Jen. I disabled it and swept your office and bathroom. You don’t have to whisper.”

She rolls her eyes and hugs her arms across her chest. “What happens now?”

“I’ll come back in the morning to sweep the area again and change the lock myself so no one has the key but you. Not that someone can’t break in, but they’d create a commotion doing it—it’ll still be a deterrent.” I look at my watch. It’s almost five and she usually works much later, but I know she’s had a day. “How much longer do you need to be here?”

She sighs and her shoulders melt a bit. “The camera freaked me out. That and with the funeral, I’m not sure how much more I have in me.”

I reach for her and pull her to me for a kiss. “Let’s grab dinner and go back to your place. I need to scan the security recordings.” He holds up the device that’s now taken apart. “If this was planted within the last few days, I should be able to narrow it down.”

I slide the tiny camera pieces into my pocket and open her door to wait for her while she packs up. She comes straight to me and I take her hand, just like she offered when she met me at the main entrance. She had no qualms waltzing me through her building to her top-floor office suite that’s situated across from her dad’s. The two of us together caused quite the stir. I don’t give a shit and I could tell she doesn’t either.

She pulls me to a stop at her assistant’s desk where the gal perks up the second she sees us.

“Hey, Callie. Would you mind calling Donny and telling him I won’t need a ride home, please? And did you get the information sorted for the refinery in Corpus?”

Jen’s assistant eyes me as she tries to bite back a smile before looking to her boss and lets loose a grin. “I sent it to your inbox. Your messages are there, too. Mr. Barrett called from Lehmans. Your breakfast meeting tomorrow has been rescheduled for next week and I’ll send out the agenda for the staff meeting first thing tomorrow morning.”

Jen pulls her bag up her shoulder and smiles. “You’re a lifesaver. Today’s been horrific. Thanks for helping me juggle everything.”

As if she can’t help herself another second, Callie stretches her arm out over her desk and offers me her hand. “I’m Callie, by the way.”

I take her hand but before I have a chance to say anything, Jen butts in.

“I’m sorry.” Jen sighs. “Callie, this is Eli Pettit. He can come and go as he pleases.”

“Good to meet you,” I offer.

“You, too.” Then she turns to Jen and grins. “Nice.”

Jen shakes her head and waves off her assistant. “Call me if you need anything and have a good evening.”

“You, too.”

I claim Jen’s hand and pull her away so I can get us food and her home. I’ve got a lot to do and a blowjob to cash in on.

Chapter 24

Emergency

Eli

She presses her bare feet under my thigh as she shifts and sighs. I don’t know if it’s all the stress in her life, but the woman can sleep, that’s for sure.

She shut her MacBook two hours ago and I told her to go to bed. She said she was just going to lay down on the sofa next to me while I worked and, the next thing I know, it’s like she was taken out by a prizefighter.

I threw a blanket over her and kept working.

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