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apparently debated with herself. “Why do you think I’ll need help?”
    He stood and approached the wall again. “This is a dangerous place, and you’re playing a deadly game. The second you’re not useful, you’re a liability.” The words rang true, and he kept his gaze level, but he wondered. Would the commander protect his flesh-and-blood daughter? Perhaps. Although Jory didn’t allow one ounce of doubt to show.
    “Fuck you.”
    “I just wanted to have a nice conversation,” he said calmly.
    “Bullshit. You wanted to get into my head for an advantage. Sorry, pal. No chance.” Her green eyes sparked all sorts of glimmers and shards. Truly beautiful.
    Jory smiled and set his pheromones to work raising her blood pressure. “Oh, sweetheart. I’m already in your head.”
    “Oh yeah?” She blinked and narrowed her focus. “You’re full of it.”
    He’d known she’d pick up the challenge. “Wanna bet?”
    “No.” She lowered her chin. “I’m trying to save your life here, and you’re trying to distract me. What the hell is wrong with you?”
    “You can’t save me.” He exhaled slowly, wanting nothing more than to punch through the glass. He had to get free. “Unless you help me get out of here.”
    “Not gonna happen.” She started to turn back to the screen.
    Fine. He’d get her attention one way or the other. “I’m assuming you met the boyfriend upon arriving in town?”
    She snorted and shifted in her seat.
    “Let’s see. What would a convenient but realistic meeting be? Is he a banker?”
    “You’re an idiot.” She shook her head and brushed back her hair with trembling hands.
    Not a banker. “Car salesman?”
    She sighed and kept typing.
    “Realtor?”
    “No.” Her chin rose.
    Ah. He was a realtor. “Don’t you think it’s a very nice coincidence that you met your charming boyfriend the second you came to town?” The guy probably could fight like a true killer, and Piper had no clue.
    “No, and your attempts to make me doubt my job here are ridiculous.” She straightened her sweater.
    He let off on the sensual attack, just a little, pleased he’d thrown her with his accurate guess. “I’m thinking he’s a realtor, which would lead to him being organized, ambitious, stable, and even a little controlling.”
    Her back stiffened just enough to let him know she was trying not to react.
    Yeah. He’d nailed that one. “You like being controlled, baby?” He allowed his voice to rumble down to a masculine tone while sending sexual tension her way.
    A pretty pink wandered up her neck, and she glared at her phone. “I’m having you tranquilized just so you shut the hell up.”
    Apparently he’d hit a nerve. The picture began to form. While Jory didn’t know much about her relationship with the commander, he did know the commander, who had always been present at the military compound, so he couldn’t have spent much time with his daughter. “So you like someone else taking charge,” Jory said, easily spotting her need to please.
    “No.”
    He let his upper lip quirk. Little girl raised without a father falling for a control freak? Yeah, that was a new one. Not. “So you like this take charge guy, but apparently you got in a fight last night. I’m thinking he went too far and turned into a jerk, huh?” Damn, this was too easy.
    She turned toward him and eyed the phone next to her, but didn’t pick it up to call for help. Little sweetheart didn’t want to have him shot full of poison, now did she? With a shrug, she reached for her coffee cup and took a deep drink. Her pink tongue darted out to lick her cup.
    Jory’s balls drew tight and he grimaced. She had no clue what she’d just done to him. “So, ah”—he shifted on the cot to adjust a sudden rigid hard-on—“you do know that this asshole you’re dating is wrong for you, right?”
    She shook her head. “This is my last warning.”
    Jory opened his senses, truly reading her and ignoring the damn warning.