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his body to the utmost advantage on the field.
    “I fill a need in this world. If my team wasn’t around to take the jobs we do, people like Andreev would be supplying weapons to untrained rebels, and the killing would go on for a much longer time, Ms. Sterling.”
    “I’m not arguing that you’re a necessary evil, Savage, I’m just saying…that loyalty should mean more than a dollar sign.”
    “Your clients could say the same of you and your teammates.”
    “Touché,” she said. She knew better than to judge anyone by their actions. Jack wasn’t a mercenary from her past. So why was she trying so hard to build a barrier between them?
    She looked into his sky-blue eyes and saw the pain in them. She saw his keen intelligence and the wall he kept between himself and the world. And she felt an answering tug in her own soul.
    Jack Savage was the kind of man Anna secretly wanted for her own. The kind of man who lived outside of the law and set his own standards.
    He was everything she wasn’t. Everything her life had always pointed her away from. He lived and breathed in that gray area between right and wrong. It wasn’t necessarily the area between criminals and law-abiding citizens…it was an area she liked to think of as justice. She knew justice didn’t always come with a badge or in a courtroom. And she saw in Jack’s eyes that he knew this, too.
    His life had shaped him into the kind of man who’d be more than happy to get justice for himself and his client however it had to be achieved. And if that meant working outside of the normal boundaries of the law, so be it.
    “Why are you staring at me like that?” he asked. His voice was deep and rough, just another thing about him that showed her he wasn’t civilized.
    “I don’t know,” she said and then stood up and walked away before she did something really stupid like kiss him. Because giving in to a bad boy like Jack Savage was something she’d never really been tempted to do before.
    But Jack Savage was temptation incarnate for her. He made her wish she was a different kind of woman so she could spend all her time with him.
    Anna knew she needed to keep her mind on the mission. On making sure Demetri Andreev was captured and put out of business for good. But she couldn’t help watching Jack, and he wouldn’t leave her thoughts alone.
    No matter how many times she tried to convince herself she didn’t care what he did, she kept finding her attention drawn back to him.
    She wanted him. Oh, my God, she thought. She was in lust for the first time in her life, and a part of her was very much afraid she was going to act on the impulse.

Chapter Four
    J ack followed Anna out of the room. There was so much more to her than her sexy good looks. The more he talked to her, the more attracted to her he was. He followed her down the hall and into her office. Charity and Justine had left, so they were alone in the building.
    “Anna?”
    “Yes?” she said, half turning toward him.
    Now that he had her attention, he didn’t hesitate. He knew what he wanted from her and closed the gap between them. He touched her soft long hair, letting the cool strands flow over his fingers. She stood stock-still just watching him with those wide eyes of hers.
    Her lips parted when he brushed one rough, scarred finger against the side of her face. He saw then the differences between them. Saw her pale, perfect skin and his rough, work-hardened fingers. He had calluses on his hands that would never go away.
    And even though they worked in the same industry, they’d never really be in the same league. What the hell was he thinking?
    He couldn’t kiss Anna Sterling or even strip her naked and take her the way he wanted to. They were working together, and she was fragile for some reason when Algiers was mentioned.
    He needed to pull back.
    Yet as he dropped the strands of her hair, he didn’t want to. So instead of pulling away, he cupped the back of her head and drew her