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wanted to stay, they would work with me, but it wasn’t going to be easy. If I felt like leaving—they would support that too.
    And I was about to say “Thanks but no thanks” and exit stage left when I looked up again and met Harrison’s eyes. There was something so smug in the way he was watching me—like he couldn’t wait to prove me a con artist. In that instant I opened my mouth and accepted his offer. “Very well,” I said, staring coolly at him and forcing myself not to blink. “I accept your offer, Agent Harrison.”
    One of his eyebrows arched and he glanced again at his watch. “Good,” he said, “but you’ll need to change your flight—the tests that I’ve arranged may take some time for you to get through.”
    I scowled at how confident he appeared, but let it go. I had to be at the top of my game here and getting irritated at the way he was treating me wasn’t going to help.
    Candice already had her iPhone out and as I leaned over to look, I saw that she was on the airline’s Web page. “I’ll see if I can get us out of here late tonight so you can take your time.”
    “Thanks,” I whispered.
    Harrison got up and walked to the door, pausing before he exited to tell us that he would be back in exactly five minutes with the first of the tests. When the door closed, I leaned way back in my chair and said, “He’s a charmer.”
    Candice smirked while she fiddled with her phone. “I think I may have a crush,” she said dreamily.
    “Oh, me too!” I replied with breathy excitement. “Do you think he might ask one of us to the prom?”
    Candice giggled. “I think the only way he’ll be able to dance is if the doctors can successfully perform that surgery.”
    “What surgery?”
    “The one to remove that gigantic stick up his butt.”
    That sent us both into gales of laughter and we were still giggling as Harrison came back into the room looking decidedly displeased that we were both having such a good time. “Are you ready?” he asked when we worked to compose ourselves.
    “I doubt it,” I told him seriously, and Candice turned her head to hide her smile.
    Harrison sighed and held open the door. “If you will follow me, please,” he said.
    We walked out into the hallway and back toward the elevators. Harrison pressed the button and we loaded onto the car and rode it all the way to the basement. When the doors opened, we looked out into a rather dim hallway lined with doors.
    Harrison got out and marched midway down the corridor with us in tow, before stopping abruptly. I had already turned up my radar and immediately my intuition wanted to pull me the rest of the way down the hallway, but I didn’t know why. I didn’t have time to ponder it as Harrison began speaking. “These offices are all empty except for one,” Harrison said to me. “To pass this test, you must correctly guess the door that holds an agent—”
    Harrison didn’t have a chance to finish as I was already bolting down the hallway. Behind me I could hear Candice’s heels following closely. I stopped at the second-to-last door and rested my hand on the door handle. “There’s a guy in here,” I said, feeling out the energy behind the door. I looked up at Harrison, who was eyeing me suspiciously. Pushing the envelope further, I said, “He’s white, between five-nine and five-eleven, brown hair, and, I believe, brown eyes. And he’s got a lot of blue around him.”
    Harrison had come down the hallway, his expression unreadable. “You’re sure that is the correct door?” was all he said, and the way he said it would make anyone other than me feel like she’d chosen the wrong door.
    I narrowed my eyes at him, and without looking at anything but Harrison’s face, I turned the handle and opened the door before I stepped back and with a hand flourish said, “Ta-da!”
    “Whoa,” Candice said, peering over my shoulder. “Abs, that was awesome!”
    I allowed myself to look, and there, sitting quietly but