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the lives. The cost will be written up as collateral damage.”
    He squeezed her closer, and she shifted over to face him. She buried her face into his chest. “This is horrid,” she said, pressing her ear to his heart. “I’ve got to find out what Wang thinks we discovered and how he wants to use it.”
    “Alpha Team will handle the investigation. Commander Ashe is the best in the fleet,” he said soothingly, rubbing her back. “They’ll unearth Wang’s motives and issue arrest decrees for those responsible.”
    She was shaking her head as she pushed herself to a sitting position. With quick swipes of the back of her hand, she erased the tears from her cheeks. He could hear her sniffling and then she looked down at him at last. Slightly swollen eyes met his, and he kissed her hand.
    “Listen,” she said, voice growing hard. “No offense, but none of your Alpha Team are scientists. A bunch of soldiers, yes, and I’m thankful for that. I don’t doubt your Commander Ashe is as good as you say, but she won’t be able to figure out Ganor’s breakthrough. It took a team of specialists, Darryl, to handle this project. A small team, sure, but experts in their respective fields. No, I have to look at all the pieces and put this thing together.”
    Darryl watched her inner fire rage. He couldn’t argue with her logic. He hadn’t thought of it that way, but Cricket was right. Ganor was her project, and she knew it best.
    Already, she was out of the bed and standing at the plasma screen, fingers skipping across the surface, hardly standing still long enough for him to see what she had selected. Text and images zipped by and her brow furrowed in concentration. Darryl put his booted feet on the floor. As he stood, his eyes drifted down her curvaceous silhouette. Desire drew him closer to her, but caution gave him pause. She seemed to have forgotten he was there, and part of him didn’t want her to forget him.
    That part of him urged him to scoop her up, drop her to the bed and slowly devour her, one succulent minute after another.
    Witnessing her transformation from distraught woman to IGO soldier only made her more alluring. She stood out against the screen’s illumination and Darryl decided he could get used to coming into his quarters and finding her there. He even envisioned himself slipping up behind her, dropping kisses across her neck and having her reach for him, welcoming him home.
    A groan slipped between his lips before he could stop himself and she froze at the sound.
    “Did you say something?” she asked, arm hovering in its bent V , fingers locked over the illuminated buttons.
    “I -- I said, uh,” he said, nerves rattling in his belly. “I’m glad you feel better.”
    She whirled around then, hands on her hips. “Feel better? I feel horrible, but I can’t let Wang get away with this. Kem Core won’t generate more money with the blood of my colleagues and friends. No.”
    “Well, I’ll leave you to it then,” he said, giving her a smile he hoped hid his thoughts from her. I knew it! Yesterday was the overwrought emotions of a desperate woman playing out in flirtation. Her kiss meant nothing to her. It shouldn’t to me. Not anymore. In time I’ll be able to push this out of my life .
    He blew out his frustration. Yeah, if only it had been a bout of hot horniness. But as he reached the door, he felt an arm on him.
    “Going someplace so soon?” she asked, spinning him around to face her.
    “You’ve got work to do.”
    She reached up to him, arms locking around his neck. She smiled. He didn’t pull away. “About yesterday, I came across wrong,” she confided, her breath hot against his neck. “I’m sorry.”
    His desire was easily manipulated by her body, by her voice, hell, by her . With a long look, he leaned down but stopped short of kissing her. Inches from those full pillow plush lips, he held himself back. The pressure mounted as he waited. This had to be her choice.