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Oasn’t chatty, but he was a far better conversationalist than this gargoyle, who didn’t see his job Fortunately, there were no threats The et when you’re being escorted to work by a taciturn gargoyle

Once I reached the office, I faced ossip about Owen and me If I’d had my choice, I would have preferred to date secretly until our relationship wasto date to help flush out the bad guys, and then we hadn’t dropped the act once the crisis was over I was pretty sure that, as shy as Oas, if he’d thought about it, he wouldn’t have kissed me in public the way he had, but parties and excite the brain Plus, it was a very nice kiss and I wouldn’t trade it for anything

Trix, the fairy who served as receptionist in the executive suite, greeted s and a wink "Hey, you! Hoas your weekend?"

"It was good"

"Good? Is that all? I did notice as going on at the office party, and you didn’t seem to need any as over the weekend, if that’s what you ondering We just got together a couple of tiht speed" Then it was ood portion of the party in a broom closet with someone"

She is a little flick "That wasn’t our idea Ari and that Idris guy put us there"

"But you did take advantage of the opportunity"

"Hey, I’ the tables seemed to have worked, for she quickly beca at ten His office"

"Thanks I’ll be there," I said before heading to my office

"This isn’t over!" she called after ive nored her and settled in atI was the assistant to the boss, as otherwise known as Aic, Spells, and Illusions, Inc If you did all the translation into and out of Welsh, Latin, and probably a few other languages in between, that came out as Merlin Yes, the Camelot wizard He’d founded MSI, in a noncorporate foric way back then, then had gone into a self-iain Our current proble to undercut our efforts to keep ht hiathered h the doorway, I al on an even surface Oas already in there, sitting at the conference table and twirling a pen between his fingers I wondered if there would ever co him didn’t take my breath away I should have known he’d be at any executivesince he usually represented the research and developain He looked very nice dressed for work, as he always did, but he appeared even ht before

"Oh, good, Katie, you’re here," Merlin said, waving a hand to shut the door behind ave a half sht red and looked down at the notebook that lay in front of hi a little taken aback by seeing each other here

I took ht hand, ready to take notes on theso I could write up a report and note the items for follow-up A oyle soared inside to land on the back of the chair across froain I wrote the date and ti on the top of my notepad while I waited for the rest of the depart names of the attendees, Merlin spoke

"Katie, I’m sure by now you’re aware that the prisoner we apprehended Friday night has escaped"

"Yes, sir," I said, wondering if this un Apparently, this wasn’t theof department heads I’d expected

"And I’ain"

"She erous He’s not necessarily evil, and even if he was, he’s not focused enough to really do anything about it But she’s vindictive, and though I used to think she was flighty, she does see"