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sabotaging Paige had grown exponentially, and he considered himself completely overwhelmed. Deciding he needed to talk to Paige, he walked over to her office and knocked on the door.
    Silence from the other side of the door was all he got. Her secretary was gone, too. He looked at his watch, noticing it was lunchtime. Evan made his way over to the snack area to see what was in the fridge, vowing to corner Paige at some point today.
    It bothered him, though, that she wouldn’t make a point to see him on his first day there. What did that say about her? Was she going to treat him like a non-entity the entire time he was here? How was he supposed to do his job that way?

    This was a mistake . Paige couldn’t keep the thought away, as much as it messed with her normally positive outlook on things. Hiring Evan Rocco to find The Crimson Lady was going to mess her up. He was already doing things to her, and she had been avoiding him since the meetings.
    Head buried in the fridge, she didn’t realize he was standing right behind her until his smooth voice penetrated her second-thoughts.
    “I need to talk to you.”
    She straightened abruptly, managing not to bonk her head on the freezer. His dark eyes pierced her menacingly, his jaw ticking as he clenched his teeth. He was pissed.
    As he took a step forward, she took one back, bumping into the refrigerator, inhaling his aftershave and cursing herself simultaneously. Jeez, he smelled good.
    “Why the fake name?” She swallowed hard at the raspy tone of his voice. He sounded pissed off, and sexy, and like he was holding on to a tenuous thread of control.
    He was everything she remembered. His full lips, flattened into a thin line across his face, shock of messy hair curled into a nest on top of his head, blood rushing to his face, vein pounding in his temple.
    She licked her lips, totally nervous around him, suddenly a star struck teenager again, and watched, fascinated, as his eyes tracked the movements of her tongue.
    “Um… Meeting in my office in fifteen.” She held up her lunch bag, “I need to eat first.”
    His posture relaxed and he took a step back, exhaling. “Fine. But this isn’t over. We need to talk.” His voice lowered into something sexy, something which reminded Paige of things best forgotten. “In private.”
    It was a promise, and damn if she wasn’t looking forward to it.
    Shaking her head to clear it, she marched herself to her office to scarf down her lunch before her next meeting. It was a meeting with Dan, Alex, and Evan—her top minds in the company, her only hope at finding out who The Crimson Lady was and stopping her before she destroyed Paige’s company.
    Dan and Alex arrived at her office together. Paige suspected there was a romance brewing between the two of them and didn’t mind. At least some happiness was coming from this mess. Thrusting the two of them together to work on The Crimson Lady was turning into a good thing for them. She smiled absently as she watched Dan pull out Alex’s chair while Alex blushed behind her glasses.
    When Evan came in, all eyes went to him, as he commanded his space. Dressed for success at his first day on the job, Paige eyed his suit, cut immaculately to fit his muscular physique perfectly. It was at odds with the beat up leather satchel he carried over his shoulder, but the stories the satchel told only added to his mystique. That case held the secrets to one of the greatest hacking minds of the century.
    Paige desperately tried to contain the heat building up inside at the vision standing in front of her, but she had to drop her eyes to the table to make it fade. She couldn’t look at him all day and get any work done. She was out of her mind.
    “Evan, you remember Dan and Alex. We meet every Wednesday to discuss The Crimson Lady. They’re my special team assigned to stop her.” Paige managed to find her professionalism somewhere on the tablet in front of her. As long as she didn’t look into