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fake military guys get angry? Wait until you hear this real retired army guy.” He stole a French fry off her plate.
    “I should have gone with Cam,” she mumbled under her breath as she picked up her sandwich.
    “Too bad, because you’re stuck with me.”
    She wanted to hate that idea, but she couldn’t.

Chapter Five
    Under the circumstances, Shane thought he’d stayed pretty calm. He somehow choked down a burger and drove them to his house without wrecking the car despite the anger shaking through him.
    The idea of Makena putting herself in the middle of so much danger made his head pound. He could feel the thumping through every inch of him and had to clamp his mouth shut to keep from yelling at her. Yelling or kissing...one of those.
    “Are you ever going to talk again or is this whole brooding thing as good as I’m going to get this evening?” she asked.
    “Excuse me?” She just didn’t stop. Anyone should be able to see his nerves ran on the edge. Not her. She pushed and demanded.
    He hated to admit it, but her refusal to back down from him was one of the many things he found so sexy about her. The face and how she looked in those jeans ranked pretty high as well.
    She paced around the family room of his end-unit town house. The strip of houses sat up on a hill with a view of the Chesapeake Bay. He’d picked it because he could get to the Corcoran Team office in Annapolis quickly but didn’t live right on top of the place like some of the other members. He needed a break now and then.
    Seeing her there filled him with a strange sense of calm. She’d been there before, but always with other people. For group get-togethers. That had been on purpose, but now it was just the two of them. He tried not to think about the big bed upstairs, waiting.
    She turned around and faced him while she rubbed her palms up and down her arms. “I get that you’re disappointed in me.”
    Not that. Not even close. “Wrong word.”
    He actually viewed her secret work as brave and important. He just wished she didn’t do it. The idea of her in danger, of some idiot who thought lying about being a SEAL was a good idea tracking her down and taking his revenge, almost doubled Shane over.
    “I’m worried about you being involved in something that could get you hurt.” He’d already blown it by saying he cared. He tried to write that off as the usual concern someone would have for his best friend’s sister. Nothing more.
    He knew better.
    She waved a hand and shook her head. Neither seemed all that believable. “I’m fine.”
    “Yeah, you look fine.” She’d paled until her skin looked white. And the way she hugged her body, wrapping her arms tight around her middle, said she’d reached her end. It was the only reason Shane hadn’t launched into his mental list of a thousand questions.
    “Admittedly, I’m a bit shaky.” She sat down hard on the armrest of his couch. The room stayed mostly in shadows. The light over the stove in the kitchen behind her cast her in its glow.
    “Getting attacked will do that.”
    Her leg swung back and forth as she stared at her hands. “And I fear you plan on lecturing me all night.”
    “We got the time, so why not?” He aimed for a lighter tone, but he felt anything but and the words came out harsher than intended.
    She glanced up, pinning him with an intense stare. “I can think of better ways to pass the time.”
    He backed away until his heel hit the step leading up to the foyer and his front door. When he realized she had him running and jumping, he stopped. This was his house and he was in control. Had to be, and that meant maintaining his hands-off policy. “Don’t do that.”
    “What?”
    The smile. She knew. He’d bet money she knew. “Tempt me.”
    She shrugged. “Didn’t know I could.”
    No way he believed that. She’d caught him staring at her more than once. The way she looked. “Do you own a mirror?”
    “Do you?”
    He went out of his way to never