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grin and nodded his head. “I understand this may not make sense, but I actually meditate like that all the time. I didn’t expect company.” He flashed those blue eyes up at her again.
    “Obviously.”
    “Look, I’m sorry, but I’m really not a weirdo.”
    Christy knew she had to break eye contact or she would never get through this. She rubbed her temples and closed her eyes.
    Mr. Simms popped his head into the conference room. “Everything all right?”
    Christy realized how weary she must have looked from her night of tossing in her sleep. The stress of the last twenty-four hours got to her. She could barely hold it together.
    “It’s okay,” she said to Simms.
    Simms nodded, staring back at Kyle, but leaving them alone again as he closed the door. Kyle rubbed his palm where her teeth marks remained clearly evident. When he noticed her looking at them, he stopped and buried his hands under the table.
    “So why the questions about all this covert stuff? The tying me up with my pantyhose? What was that all about?”
    “Again, please let me apologize. I thought maybe you were involved with Armando’s disappearance.”
    “Me?”
    Kyle rolled his shoulders. “I just assumed you might be one of the bad guys.”
    “You think I look like a bad guy?”
    “Of course not. I see that now.”
    Christy glared at him. She decided he was telling the truth so she backed down. “Well, I still don’t see what the big deal is. Maybe your friend went out on a bender—it happens, you know.”
    “Not to us.”
    “I’m sorry ?”
    “We’re SEALs.”
    “Oh.”
    “And we never disappear without someone else from the SEALs community knowing about it. We’re trained to disappear, but that’s not how this happened. Something’s wrong.”
    “Sounds a little over the top. Don’t you guys have a life?”
    “That’s exactly what we’ve got.”
    Christy watched Kyle survey the top of the conference table, his eyes sweeping up to the flowers laying flat against the Formica surface.
    “Staying alive is the goal,” he said.
    Christy didn’t know what else to say.
    “Well, I’ve taken enough…” He started to rise.
    “No. Wait a minute. That was unkind of me.”
    Kyle shrugged, then sat back down. He looked at his lap.
    “What can I do to help?” she asked.
    Kyle folded his hands neatly in front of him and a crooked smile angled up to the left, causing a dimple. “Nothing you can do. I’m here because you never should have been involved in the first place and I wanted to personally apologize for my behavior.”
    Some of the pieces started to connect. She rolled her neck back and forth and felt some of the tension leave.
    “Did I injure you? I tried not to.” His eyes were steady as he raised his brows, forming crease lines on his forehead. “You hurt anywhere?”
    Good question. “No. I’m fine.” She didn’t understand why he chuckled at this and nodded his head twice.
    “You’re a very strong young lady.”
    “I’ve been told that a time or two.”
    “I can imagine.” He scanned her face like he had yesterday when they were on the floor. She could tell he wanted to look at her farther down, but held himself in check. She liked that about him.
    He looked to the side as if thinking about something before he spoke again. “I would like to make it up to you, if you’ll let me.” He turned on the blue-eyed charm again and smiled. “Give me a chance for you to see my decent side, not my animal side.”
    She was thinking about his animal side. Did he know?
    “Well, I don’t normally bite people when I first meet them, either.” She found it in herself to smile and enjoyed that he returned her smile, focusing on her lips.
    An awkward silence followed, but she determined not to break it. His move and how he played it would indicate if she would trust him.
    “Maybe I could buy you lunch sometime. Tomorrow?”
    She’d been hoping for dinner but knew lunch was the right answer. “That would be