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do with you. It was like he was waiting for you.”
    “He was waiting for whoever came to the scene,” she said. “No big deal.”
    “No,” Carter said, leaning back in his chair with arms folded over his impressively large chest. “It’s more than that. When I took you home last night—” She glared, and he lowered his voice. “When I took you home last night, I felt like we were being watched. Do you have any idea why someone would be after you?” he asked.
    To finish what they started with my parents? is what she thought. But she just bit her lip. “No. You must have been imagining things.”
    He got up and came over to her desk, putting a large hand on it and caging her in against her chair. “I wasn’t imagining things. Do you think I stayed over for no reason?”
    She flushed deeper ‘til her face felt like it was practically burning. Maybe it wasn’t only the alcohol that made him attractive to her. Maybe he was just attractive. She could scent him. Clean pine and cool mountain streams. So fresh you just wanted to dive in.
    And hell yes, did she want to dive in. The wolf in her was practically howling.
    “I think you stayed over because you had some misplaced idea that you needed to,” she said. “That it was your duty or something. But I was fine, obviously, even though you were asleep.”
    “I don’t sleep like regular people,” he said. “I wake up at the slightest noise. You would have been safe.”
    She pushed him away from her with a sigh, smoothing an errant curl back behind her ear. It was time to get her hair relaxed again, but she’d been too busy to get it done. “I was safe either way, Carter. Now get out of my face so I can work.”
    He let out a little huff and stepped back.
    She couldn’t help a small grin forming on her face. She’d gotten to him. He had a rock-hard exterior, always stern, always businesslike, so that was something different.
    He sat at his desk, pulled out a file, and started flipping through it.
    “Carter?” she asked quietly now that he was focusing on something else.
    “Hm?” he said, barely raising an eyebrow.
    “What happened last night?”
    He looked up at her, and she could swear a grin was playing at the corners of his lips. “So now you want to know? You practically threw me out this morning.”
    “Hmph,” she said. “Never mind. What were you talking to the chief about?”
    “None of your business,” he retorted, turning a page in his file.
    She swallowed and returned to her paper work. It was the most awkward day they’d ever had together.
    “Go to lunch with me today and we can talk more,” he said, looking at the clock. “We’re off in a half hour.”
    She shook her head. “I think I’m going to work through lunch.”
    He sighed. “Turned you into a workaholic, have I?”
    She grinned. “Maybe.” Then she yawned and shut the file, studying him warily. “Carter… nothing… inappropriate happened, did it?”
    His face was serious. “I’d like to say that was the case. But there were a few things.”
    Her heart clenched. “Like what?”
    He looked around the office. “Do you really want to talk about this here, where others can hear?”
    She shook her head.
    “Then go to lunch with me,” he said.
    “I’m working,” she retorted. “But I’ll meet you after work. How’s that?”
    “I’m meeting with the captain again,” he said.
    She shrugged. “I guess we’ll have to talk tomorrow, then.”
    “No,” he said, folding his arms. “It can’t wait. I seriously think someone is after you. And we should talk about what happened last night. Clear the air and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
    What had they done? She wracked her mind for the memories, but nothing was coming.
    “I really don’t think anyone is after me,” she said. “But fine. You know where I live. Come over after you meet with the captain.”
    “Might be late,” he said.
    “Whatever,” she said. “As long as you come.” Then she