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hook.  Simple.  Hopefully I won't even have to see Luke again."
    Except she wanted to see him again.  Her body had throbbed all night after they'd made love on the couch, keeping her awake into the early hours.  She couldn’t forget the warmth of his skin against hers, the weight of his body, the exquisite pressure of him inside her.
    "Darling," Daisy said, leaning forward.  "First of all, ‘squeeze’ is only used in the movies.  Second, the Haywood-Smiths aren't the kind of people who admit their crimes.  They don't have to.  They have judges as their friends and neighbors.  Thirdly," she took Lily's hand and gave her a reassuring smile, "you're going to have to see Luke again.  There's no other way."
    Lily groaned and thumped her head on the table.  "Now I really wish I hadn't slept with him last night."
    "You did what ?"

 
    CHAPTER 5
     
    Luke sat in his boss's office waiting for the Chief to return from a meeting.  He should have been thinking about how he was going broach the subject of Lily's innocence but all he could think about was Lily's body. 
    And wishing he hadn't slept with her.
    No.  Not true.  More like wishing that sleeping with her had got her out of his system.
    It hadn't.  He couldn't stop thinking about her, more than ever.  Their sexual encounter had been over too fast but he could remember every detail.  The way her caress gave him an aching hard-on and how her feathery kisses sent a shiver through his tautly strung body.  Not to mention the way her heat surrounded him, pulled him in until he was submerged so deep he felt like he was drowning. 
    Yep, he was screwed.  He had it worse for her than ever.  And she didn't want anything to do with him even though her freedom depended on him.
    "Make it quick, Tanner, I've got to meet the Commissioner in ten."  The Chief barreled through the door, coffee mug in one hand and a fat briefcase in the other.  He slapped both items down on his desk and sat with a loud grunt.  "Your message said something about the Haywood-Smith theft.”  He popped the locks on his briefcase and pulled out a stack of papers.  "Tell me you solved it already," he said without looking up.
    "I've solved it already."
    The Chief reached for his coffee mug with one hand and a pen with the other.  He flicked through two sheets of paper, signing both at the bottom with a loose scrawl.  "Good result, Tanner.  Expect nothing less from your team.  So what's the problem?"
    Luke sighed.  There was no easy way out of this.  "My ex girlfriend."
    The Chief finally looked up, coffee mug half-way to his lips.  "The McAllister girl?"  He frowned, doing his best impersonation of a bulldog.  "You better tell me.  And don't leave out any details."
    Luke told him about the theft, starting with the CCTV footage landing on his desk and ending with his visit to Lily's place.  Minus the sex part—although he suspected the Chief might like to hear those details too.  He summed it up with: "As you can see she's not guilty."
    The Chief snorted but it was hard to tell if it was from laughter or anger.  Either way, the folds of his face didn't move out of their frown.  "Don't tell me you believe her?  Christ, Luke, you of all people should know you can't trust a McAllister.  Bunch of low-lifes the lot of them."
    "Not Lily.  She's different."
    "Yeah, she's too dumb to look for the hidden cameras."
    Luke clenched his fists and pressed them into his thighs so he wouldn't be tempted to leap across the desk and use them on his boss's face.  "She's not dumb.  And she's not a criminal."
    The Chief's gaze never wavered.  He made no movement, no sound, but somehow Luke knew that his boss could tell he wanted to punch the crap out of him. 
    "You really think she was trying to return the necklace?" Chief asked.
    "Yes."
    "And that the Haywood-Smiths are committing insurance fraud?"
    "Yes."
    Chief grunted.  "You're a fool, Tanner."
    "Maybe."
    "She's got you by the balls."
    If