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informing you of my identity and the job he sent me here to do. Which was to monitor you and your agents’ efficiency in gathering intel from the various suspects that often spend their evenings here. In my own defense, the CIN does employ me as well though. So I really had no other choice but to keep my mouth shut.”
    Turk cursed under his breath; the latent anger that filled the single, explicit word did cause a light flinch to ripple through her before she stilled it.
    â€œI didn’t give you leave to reveal that information,” J.D. stated stiffly.
    â€œYou should be committed, J.D.,” she informed him caustically. “You’re a hazard to yourself, your employees, and the world at large. Now I’m going home before I kill you myself and take that pleasure from someone who actually deserves to go to prison for it.”
    Turning, she left the office, furious, offended, and certain J.D. had just destroyed every iota of friendship she’d found in Simsburg.
    *   *   *
    J.D. let the smile he was holding back slip free as the door slammed behind his stepdaughter only to be followed by Rogan’s exit as well. Damn, he was crazy about that girl. She had so much of her mother’s fire and flash temper that he couldn’t help but be wary of her as well though.
    â€œDrink, J.D.?” The cool drawl of Ethan Cooper’s voice sounded as if a smile turned into an amused quirk as he turned back to the man he’d been friends with since Cooper was a kid barely out of diapers.
    â€œYou’re pissed,” he stated.
    He could always tell when Coop was pissed. It was a look the other man had, the way his eyes seemed to still, a hardening of his jaw.… Nope, Coop wasn’t very happy at the moment.
    â€œYou’re messing with my club, my agents, and my staff,” Cooper snapped as he moved to the small bar at the corner of the room. “I don’t appreciate it.”
    J.D. lifted a brow, though he wasn’t really surprised that Cooper had come to feel protective of Erin. It was the same reaction most men displayed toward her mother, Esme, as well. They had a way of drawing a man’s protective nature out, whether the males wanted it drawn out or not.
    â€œOf course you don’t, neither would I,” J.D. assured him as he accepted the whiskey the other man handed him even as he noticed the glimmer of surprise in his eyes.
    â€œThen why do it?” The deepening of his voice was another sign of his disapproval, if not his anger.
    Turning, J.D. resumed his seat, propping his ankle on the opposite and staring back at Cooper for a long, silent moment.
    â€œI always send backup up to watch out for her, and my son John D. usually takes that duty,” he stated as Cooper returned to the desk and sat down as well. “It would kill Esme and I if anything happened to her. John D. has been watching Turk and Erin dance around each other for three months now, and that’s something she never does. That, added to the anomalies showing up here, and I’m damned concerned. It was better to get the truth out in the open and have it done with rather than hanging over her head where that boy’s concerned.”
    â€œThat boy?” Cooper grunted mockingly. “I don’t think I’d call Turk a boy and let him hear it.”
    J.D. chuckled at the thought of the agent’s reaction should that happen.
    â€œProbably not a good idea,” he agreed. “But, she loves him. Let her have her chance.”
    â€œAnd you know this how?” Cooper was obviously not of the same mind-set.
    â€œAnd he loves her.” J.D. grinned. “I have the pictures John D. sent of the two of them whenever they were working together. Trust me, it’s been like seeing me and Esme all over again. And that’s a fine agent, a good man. I couldn’t have chosen better for her myself.”
    To which Cooper gave him a wry, mocking