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reading before answering. “Sandor and I spent hours tracing down that e-mail you got yesterday. I wanted you to know that we’d both been in your files. It took a while, but Sandor finally managed to find it.”
    She’d all but forgotten that weird e-mail. It had been startling at the time, but her worry over Grey digging deeper into her background had shoved it to the back burner. Thank goodness she’d been so careful to keep only work files on the computer.
    “And?” she pressed.
    Grey’s mouth settled into a deep frown. “From what he could tell, it was sent from my account.”
    “What? He didn’t believe that, did he? You were as shocked as I was when you saw it!” It was nothing less than the truth. If he had sent the e-mail, there was no way he would have sicced Sandor on her computer to track it down. Grey looked slightly less grim when she told him so.
    “Thank you. I can’t vouch for what Sandor thinks, but I would hope that he’d realize I’m not that dense.”
    He leaned back in his chair and stretched his legs. “If you don’t mind, I’d like to watch over your shoulder as you check your e-mail this morning. If our prankster has been at it again, I don’t want to miss seeing the message and how the computer reacts to it.”
    Heck, no, she didn’t want him that close! But she couldn’t very well tell him that. “Fine, I’ll get it booted up.”
    Her computer was top of the line and normally very fast, but with Grey hovering, it seemed as if her system was running on empty.
    “Okay, I’m going online now.”
    She kept her eyes on the screen, ignoring the soft sound of Grey breathing behind her. The warmth from his body heated the air between them, making her hyperaware of his proximity. There was no physical contact, but it was if he were pressed against her back. She shivered.
    “Everything all right?” he asked, bending down so that his head hovered over her right shoulder.
    Maybe he was asking about her, but she deliberately chose to act as if he was talking about her e-mail account.
    “So far, so good.”
    She entered her password and waited for it to load. As usual, she had more than thirty e-mails waiting for her. She quickly scanned the list of addresses for anything out of the ordinary. There it was in the middle of the list.
    She pointed at the unfamiliar sender. “I don’t recognize that address.”
    “Is it the same as yesterday?” His breath tickled her neck as he leaned even closer to read the screen.
    “I don’t remember, but it’s similar at least.”
    “Okay.” He frowned. “Maybe we should have another pair of eyes to see this. Let me grab Sandor before you open it.”
    Grey disappeared down the hallway, returning a moment later with the other Talion. The two men bracketed Piper, hovering over her shoulders. She wished they were overreacting, but they weren’t the kind of men to spook easily.
    Grey rested his hand on her shoulder, giving it a slight squeeze. “All right, then. Let’s see what we’ve got.”
    She clicked on the email and waited for it to open. At first glance the e-mail looked normal. It even started off with “Hi, Piper.” Then it got strange fast. “Please tell Grey hello for me. I bet he’s standing right there.”
    She blinked, trying to make sure she was reading it correctly.
    Grey’s reaction was succinct. “Bloody hell!”
    Sandor leaned in closer. “Son of a bitch, how could he know that?”
    “Grey, how—” she started to ask, but then the screen blanked out again just as it had the day before.
    She wove her fingers together into a tight fist as the screen slowly came back into focus. Small beads of light sparkled in random patterns. Despite their innocuous appearance her tension ratcheted up second by second as she waited for the other shoe to drop.
    Then it did. The sound on her computer shot to full volume as the small bits of light exploded like fireworks on steroids. The sudden noise made her jump back and bump her