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you’d like. I will order your name tags and desk plate this afternoon.” Lisa inspected the office to make sure she had everything she needed and they headed back toward the lobby. “I don’t know if you were introduced when you came in; Ani this is Jill,” Lisa introduced her formally to the petite blonde that had shown her into the office.
    “Hi, Jill. I’m Ani,” Ani reached out and shook the blonde’s hand.
    “It’s nice to meet you. So, are you going to be joining the team?” she asked.
    “Yes, she’ll be our new Risk Management Officer,” Lisa answered excitedly, “Jill is one of our Personal Bankers. She works alongside Kate who,” Lisa looked around Kate’s vacant office before continuing, “Looks like she has already gone to lunch.”
    “That’s ok. I’m sure I’ll see her tomorrow,” Ani tried to hide the disappointment in her voice; she’d really hoped to talk to Kate before she’d left today.
    “Yes, though I’m sure you two girls have plenty to catch up on besides bank stuff,” Lisa said, patting Ani on her back. “Let’s head on over to the teller line.”
    Ani met the various women behind the teller line and the handful of loan officers that resided in the offices upstairs, before she confirmed her schedule for the week and headed out to her truck. As she climbed up into the driver’s seat, she let out a deep breath. She would be starting a job tomorrow and even for a small town bank, she would be making pretty good money. She figured she would have had to give up her salary when she took this position, but Lisa had explained the bank had been merged with a larger corporation that ran out of Gatlinburg. And though she would be working here permanently, she would actually be an employee of the main financial corporation; meaning a higher salary and better benefits.
    As she cranked her truck she paused, a familiar rumble came flooding in through her windows. She froze as a handful of bikers came rolling into the bank parking lot. Not concerned enough to park in an actual parking spot, they pulled directly in front of the main walkway of the bank. Her heart started to beat faster as they got off their motorcycles and removed their helmets. Her eyes passed from biker to biker in search of one in particular; but as she took in the “Renegades” insignia stretched across the back of their leather cuts, she assumed he wasn’t with them. As one of the men headed into the bank with a large canvas bag, the other four propped up on or against their motorcycles and waited.
    Her heart slowed back to a normal pace as she pulled out of her parking spot, glancing over just enough to see one of the men staring at her. She smiled weakly as she took off from the parking lot and toward the main part of town. She needed to stop by Mrs. Bell’s shop to pick up the mower blades she’d ordered. As she sped off down the road, she turned up her radio and tuned the rest of the world out; that was until she heard the sirens blasting from behind her truck.
    “You gotta be kidding me! I’m not even speeding,” she said out loud before she realized who it was.
    Cash fucking Roberts.
    “Can I see your license and registration, ma’am?” Cash said as he strolled up to her car window.
    “What do you want, Cash?” She cut her eyes toward him in aggravation.
    “I wanted to make sure you were ok. You haven’t returned any of my calls; I’ve been trying to get in touch with you all weekend.”
    “Yeah, I know,” she said through gritted teeth.
    She chanced a glimpse down at his uniform. Fuck. She quickly turned her head as he leaned into her window with an award-winning smile.
    “Let me take you out this weekend. Just the two of us.”
    “No.”
    “Oh come on, Ani. Just as friends,” he said, trying to convince her.
    She looked back over at him, being careful as to not look down at his uniform. One more glimpse at it and her clothes would fall off. Her mind started flickering through images of