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of the guys and their girlfriends or mates were still sleeping it off, like Tek was, all alone in his own room.
    Still, she didn't trust a one of them not to hear her throaty, electric blue GT-R, so she rolled it out of the parking lot and out into the street before she started it and drove back to her own place. As disheveled as she'd been – and that was plenty, thanks to him – she still made it to work on time, and had even made a couple sales before applying her head to the desk, then to her nicely folded arms and giving up on trying to stay awake, hoping to catch a few winks before her afternoon meeting.
    Of course, that was not to be. The minute her head hit her arms, Renee buzzed her. "I have Ms. Buchanan for you."
    Just what she needed. Her best girlfriend had a nose on her for intimate dirt about Mari...well, like the rest of the guys in the pack. She'd know in a matter of seconds just what she and Tek had been up to last night – there was no hope for it.
    But that didn't mean Mari was just going to fess up immediately. If she could get out of it without a confrontation, simply by not bringing up the subject of who it was that she'd spent last night with, then she certainly was more than willing to take the easy way out. So she picked up the phone and plastered a fake ear-to-ear smile on her face, hoping it would be translated to her voice, somehow. "Hi, Abs, how are you?"
    She'd been Abby until she'd succumbed to the latest fitness craze and had had a righteous six-pack ever since, much to her best friend's complete and total disgust. She'd often told Abby that she hoped whatever it was she had wasn't catching because the only way she was ever going to run voluntarily was if there was a Mack truck chasing her.
    "Not as good as you this morning, I'd be willing to bet."
    So much for the easy way.
    Mari leaned back in her chair, hoping that didn't put her to sleep in the middle of this conversation, which would have been a dead giveaway as to exactly what it was she had been doing last night, and with whom. Then she swiveled around to face out the bow window that was directly behind her desk, giving her a gorgeous view of beautiful downtown Hamden, New Mexico, the little burg they all called home just outside of Albuquerque.
    "I'm sure I have no idea to what you are referring." Most of the time playing innocent didn't come any easier to her – even when she really was – than it did to Tek.
    "Puh-leeze. I know exactly where you were and who you were with."
    This had Mari's attention. She sat up in the chair. "You do?" she asked cautiously.
    "Yes. I know you left with Tek, but I'd bet anything that guy you've been seeing – what's his name…Andre – came over to take care of you once he dropped you off. So, spill."
    Andre was an up and coming lawyer in town, whom she had seen very occasionally, so occasionally that they hadn't even slept together yet. It was going nowhere because of her obsession with Tek, and he didn't seem to be all that interested in pursuing a relationship with her, either, so they had both agreed to just let it lie. Abby was always in the habit of trying to get her to become more serious with someone – anyone who wasn't Tek – since she didn't seem to be interested in anyone else at the club.
    Lovely. Her best friend wanted intimate details of a night she didn't have with a person she didn't love. Oh goody!
    She decided not to play that game. She knew her next phone call would have to be to Tek to tell him what she'd said to Abby, so that he wasn't surprised if he got a lecture from Cash, but she hated to lie.
    And it wasn't as if Abby didn't know with whom she had slept. She was her best friend, and she had stumbled upon them once. She just wasn't necessarily aware of the fact that she and Tek had a sort of ongoing thing. Mari had kind of let Abby – and pretty much everyone else – think that it had been a one-time deal. By the time she found out about it, they had already been