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Leaning forward, she whispered, "No, you won’t You’ll be seeing stars when I’ with discomfort, he arched his hips up from the seat and adjusted the fit of his jeans

"Back to the shoptalk," she said, inwardly s with female triumph and heated expectation "Ginny spent money she likely doesn’t have on safety precautions that won’t do her a daoes after this diner, he’ll do it in the bright light of day right under her nose"

And later, after the diner closed and the streets were quiet, the devious little tiulf the structure in flaued, rallying "She feels better And whether or not the modifications she made were necessary in this particular instance, they were still smart"

"It’s my job to helpthat way"

"Right" His gaze bore into her "And people should sleep with their doors open because we have law enforce" The residents had been horrified at the first fire but trusted her and Jis a little shakier, but they’d still been sure an arrest was i the authorities were just a step away fro about fending for themselves

"Get over yourself, Darcy Unless you totally fucked up the evidence collection and analysis, you’ve done your job and you’re continuing to do your job by sending for help when you need it Pat yourself on the back and give props to the people who are thinking forward instead of backward"

"I’m not sure if I like you or not"

"Don’t like me Let’s keep this simple"

She nodded without hesitation After all, she illing to indulge herself with hi more than sex was beyond her at this point in her life "Works for me"

He was on his feet before Ginny reached their table with a takeout bag of food and a cardboard drink carrier "Let’s go, Inspector We have a lot of work to get through between now and six o’clock"

JARED SET THE take-out bag down on the desk in Darcy’s office and swept the narrow roo out his foa her on the six-foot-long folding table set beneath thethat looked into the firehouse’s heavy apparatus bay Unfortunately, its flimsiness wouldn’t hold up to the abuse, and it certainly wouldn’t be professional, although a quickie would do a lot to restore his concentration He didn’t trust her desk, either, with its ultralass top artfully balanced on a network of thin chrome bars

"Miller’s bark is worse than his bite, by the way" She reached around hi warm clean woman

The sheriff was in his hts, but he was no threat Jared had spent six years with Delta Force before he’d joined the US Marshals Service’s elite Special Operations Group There wasn’t a human alive he couldn’t severely maim or kill

"My partner will deal with Miller Even if she feels like killing hier before occupying one of the two chairs in front of her desk Pausing midchew, he mumbled an awed, "Holy shit"

Her lips curved around her straw "Daer, isn’t it?"

He sed "Insanely"

It was nearly as good as she looked when she s stars when I’m done with you Fuck of it was, he was inclined to believe her She was doing a nu What would she do to him if she put some effort into it…?

She rounded the desk and pulled open the top drawer of the filing cabinet His gaze lass and chrome bookshelves behind her Either the city invested a lot in the comfort of their civil servants or she’d spent her own di the space up He was inclined to think that the utilitarian graytable and chairs were provided courtesy of the city The run-of-the- desk were all her--strong, eye-catching, and sexy And the indulgence suggested that she spent a lot of tiaze caught on a silver-framed picture on a shelf behind her It was a snapshot of her when she was younger, wearing a cheerleader unifor with her are of herself dressed in a band costume

"You’re a twin"

She pushed the drawer shut and returned to the desk, setting three lass "Yes"

He wondered if her sister was anything like her Maybe Darcy was the naughty twin The thought hty" thought of in conjunction with "Darcy" seemed to have that now-predictable effect on hi right along

He resuhtly irritated by her lack of elaboration, which was a stupid response Keeping things silad she was on the sa the bottoan to carefully spread out photographs on her desk Aside frolass pen holder and redthe pristine surface

Jared chewed on a perfectly crispy French fry and studied the cri at

"The fire began at approxiht It started here," she pointed to the third picture, "in the hallway outside the restroo the rubble