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office. She’d spent the past two months taking us from my version of high tech to her version.
    That meant we didn’t just have a large-screen computer monitor each any longer. Now we had an entire wall that could be a single screen or several, depending on what we were researching or briefing each other on. We had headsets and any number of other gadgets.
    I had no idea what the gadget was in the package I’d just opened. I shrugged and set it aside before moving on to the next box.
    When it was open I dug out the paper—and pulled out a spiked leather dog collar and a leash. I frowned. The package must have come to the agency by mistake. I looked at the return address—simply a stamp with the initials PP and then an address. I glanced to see who the package should have gone to and saw that it was addressed to Olivia.
    Weird. Unless she’d gotten herself a dog—a rather big one—then this had to be a gift for a friend. We had several Doppler friends whose animal forms were large dogs, but I didn’t think she was close enough to any of them to buy them a collar and a leash. Not to mention the fact that even thinking about putting a collar on a Doppler was reason enough to get bitten.
    I didn’t like to call Olivia on her days off if it wasn’t really important I put the items back in the box and set them on her desk.
    Fae bells tinkled and I looked over my shoulder, away from the stack of mail, and at the office door.
    “Colin,” I said as the gorgeous blond male pushed the door open and stepped inside. A cool April breeze followed the Dragon into the office. The scent of spring was in the air.
    He gave me a sexy smile that made me feel warm in a smooth sweep from my scalp to my toes.
    “Hey,” Colin said as he moved toward me. Fae bells tinkled again as he let the door close behind him.
    I set the package down and turned to face him completely. “What’s up, Hot Stuff?” I couldn’t help a smile of my own as I called him by the nickname Olivia had pinned onto the sometimes fire-breathing male.
    “I’m kidnapping you.” Colin put his warm hands on my upper arms and bent to brush his lips over mine. It was just a whisper-soft kiss, but it was enough to singe me.
    “Kidnapping me?” I said, thinking of all the possibilities that went with that idea.
    Then beating those ideas back down again. I’d told Colin I wasn’t ready for a relationship, and he’d understood. Adam had broken things off with me just a couple of months ago.
    Adam might have been able to move on right away, but I was hesitant. More than anything, I think it was fear that held me back. Fear that any new relationship might end just like mine and Adam’s had. I wasn’t so sure I wanted to try my heart out so soon.
    “I’m taking you out for an early dinner and a movie.” Colin leaned back against Olivia’s desk. His biceps and the muscles in his forearms flexed beneath his golden skin as he braced his hands on either side of the desktop. He wore a blue T-shirt and blue jeans that molded to his hips and thighs extremely well.
    Soft burnished-gold eyes, long glittering gold hair, and well-cut masculine features made Colin the Dragon one of the sexiest males I’d ever met. Rodán was the only male I knew who was even more gorgeous than Colin, and that wasn’t an easy accomplishment.
    “How does Indian food sound?” Colin said as he watched me walk toward my desk.
    “Delicious.” I went behind my desk and brought my Dolce & Gabbana handbag out of the cubby beneath my desktop. “I’m starving.”
    “You do realize, of course,” Colin said with a sensual expression, “that I intend to keep you the rest of the day. You need a break.”
    “Says who?” I moved back around my desk and reached him. He was six-four, and I had to tilt my head ay flt my h little.
    “Says me.” Colin took me by my arm and guided me to the front door.
    On the way I grabbed the packages that I’d left beside the mail basket. “This package came