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Kate, and I even got up to seventeen days once. The board was like a game for Jimmy, and we’d fallen into a pattern. He kept hanging it in different places all over the agency so there was a better chance for everyone to see it, I’d bitch about it as soon as I found where he’d hung it, and then he’d take it down and move it somewhere else.
    “I mean it, Jimmy,” I said again, this time pounding on the door. “Do you hear me?”
    “Everybody can hear you,” Kate said from her office a couple of doors down. “Jimmy’s out on a job, so your wrath can’t be appreciated properly.” She looked down at her watch. “Get in here. Agent Savage will be here in a few minutes, and I want to give him the appearance that this is a legitimate place of business.”
    I nodded as Kate went back inside her office, but I’d already thought of the perfect revenge for Jimmy. He’d made the mistake of leaving a little piece of chalk in the holder, and I was going to take full advantage of it.
    I dug around in my purse until I came out with a tissue, and I erased Jimmy’s idea of a joke, replacing it with one of my own. Jimmy would probably be pissed, because he seemed like the kind of guy who liked to dish it out but couldn’t really take it when the joke was at his expense. But I didn’t care. Jimmy deserved to have his manhood taken into question.
    I dusted my hands off and stood back t o examine my handiwork. If luck was on my side, I’d be out of the building before Jimmy got back. I headed into Kate’s office and saw Nick lounged on the leather couch in the sitting area she used to make clients feel more comfortable. He looked perfectly relaxed, but I could see his body was tightly coiled, ready to spring into action if needed. Come to think of it, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen Nick completely relaxed.
    “I re cognize that look,” Kate said. “You always get that little smile whenever you’ve just done something you shouldn’t have. What gives? It makes me nervous for you to have that smile in my office building.”
    I rolled my eyes and looked back and forth between the empty spot on the couch next to Nick and the small chair on his other side. He arched a challenging brow at me, knowing the debate going on in my mind. If I sat next to Nick on the couch, there was no way I was going to be able to concentrate on anything anyone was saying. And heave n forbid we accidentally touched thighs or something. It had been so long since I’d had an orgasm I was afraid I might spontaneously combust.
    I wisely took the chair next to the couch, and Nick whispered, “Coward,” out of the corner of his mouth. I would’ve thought of something clever to say, but Agent Savage picked that mo ment to walk into Kate’s office and I lost all train of thought. At least I assumed he was Agent Savage. He certainly looked like he could live up to the name.
    He was a couple of inches taller than Nick, making him close to 6’5”, and he was broad and muscled. Everywhere. He looked like the love child of The Rock and Pocahontas. He took up every bit of space in the doorway, and not even his conservative black suit could hide the power beneath. His skin was the color of copper and his hair was black as coal and cut stylishly. His face was like a work of art, sharp angles to make it interesting, and full lips that brought nothing to mind but sin. His dark eyes were framed by lashes that I’d have paid good money for.
    Even Kate was rattled by the sheer magnetism of the man, and Kate was never rattled about anything. I snuck a look at Nick and saw his eyes were narrowed menacingly at the new arrival. I could already feel the tension crackling in the air, and I was pretty sure it was the testosterone. Two men like Nick and Agent Savage couldn’t be in the same room without there being cataclysmic results. They probably shouldn’t have been inhabiting the same planet.
    “Agent Savage,” Kate finally managed to say, extending her hand