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that hard to leave him behind. Not that
he’d seemed overly broken-hearted. He’d wished her the best, kissed her on the
lips and then waved with a happy smile as she’d driven off in her taxi for the
airport.
    Obviously it wasn’t meant to be, not with him.
    She’d done a little bit of random dating when she’d
started the culinary academy. But then school, studies, and the need to soak it
all up and in had taken her focus off men. From that point on, she’d picked up
a few toys from the adult stores and made do.
    She just hadn’t found the right someone who could
distract her from her first love, cooking and creating new, and interesting
foods. Until Trent’s arrival, she’d honestly feared that would never happen.
    Now that it had, her body was letting her know that
the rubberized cocks she used just weren’t cutting it. Unfortunately, her body
didn’t get a vote any time soon. Not with Trent there to do a job. Besides, she
reminded herself, he might have a girlfriend or wife.
    Feeling horrid at the idea she was taking him away
from family, she pulled the plug on the tub and stepped out onto the mat.
Drying off as quickly as she could, Mallory tugged on her terrycloth robe and
moved to the living room.
    She found him sitting on the floor in front of the
sofa, his laptop open before him, his phone tucked between his ear and shoulder,
and he was frowning as he tapped on the keys.
    He glanced up just as she was considering turning
around. “Hold on a sec,” he muttered into the phone before pressing it to his
chest. “Is everything okay, Mallory?” he asked.
    Nodding, she smiled at his concern. “Yeah. I just had a question. It’s personal and nosey and
you don’t have to answer if you don’t want to. I’ll understand if you don’t,
really. I just.” She stopped and huffed out a breath.
    He was grinning at her. “What’s the question?”
    “I was just wondering how your girlfriend or wife took
the fact that you were moving into an assignment’s place,” she said. Damn, that
sounded even dumber out loud than it had in her head.
    “No girlfriend and I’ve never been married. So, you
don’t have to worry. No jealous female will be pounding on the door,” he said,
a smirk curling his lips.
    Rolling her eyes, she glared at him. “Good to know.
I was just worried that you had other responsibilities is all.”
    “Uh-huh, sure,” he said. And he clearly wasn’t
buying it.
    Feeling the urge to growl at him, Mallory sniffed
instead. “Good night,” she muttered before spinning on her heel to march to her
bedroom.
    “Sweet dreams, darling,” he called after her.
    Shutting her door she huffed out a breath. “Men,”
she grumbled. The man was pompous, arrogant, and too damned sexy for his own
good. Tossing her robe aside, she grabbed the long and oversized t-shirt she
preferred to sleep in and slipped it over her head.
    She climbed into bed and yanked the covers up high
under her chin. Wrinkling up her nose, Mallory closed her eyes and let the
aggression toward him slide away. Soon enough she felt the need to sleep
tugging at her as she relaxed more and more.
    ****
    “What do you mean, she has a boyfriend?” The man
slammed a hand to his desk, stunned and upset at this unexpected wrinkle.
    “The girl, Thompson, has a boyfriend.”
    “Are you sure he’s her boyfriend?” he asked pinning
the other man with a look.
    “We did a full check as soon as we spotted him
going into her building. Dave got a glimpse of him when he went into her place
and he hasn’t seen the guy come out.”
    “Shit. What do we know about him?”
    “Trent McDonald, ex-Marine, served ten
years before an honorable discharge. He ended up getting
in with a buddy and is now a military contractor. He was overseas when we went
at her the first time and just flew back in. From the info we got from the
airport, his flight landed and he headed straight to her place.”
    Shoving his hands through his hair, messing up the
normally