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Instead, Elizabeth had the ground-floor apartment in a converted three-storey Victorian-style house Ads, but they were also old-fashioned, and the furnishings were old and comfortable rather than expensively modern

All in all, Rogan decided he liked it

Although he still wasn’t sure about being in Elizabeth’s apartment with her Especially an Elizabeth who somehow seemed far less prickly and defensive than she usually was…

Elizabeth eyed Rogan quite openly as the two of thean slouched slightly even as he shot her looks frouarded to say the least

Had she unnerved hi him to her apartment?

She certainly hoped so!

‘So, I was thinking ofhtly ‘What do you think?’

Rogan straightened his back, dark brows raised ‘I think that’s your business and no one else’s,’ he finally answered

She shrugged ‘I’ you for your opinion’

He frowned ‘Why don’t you get back to your numbers while I have a think about that?’

Elizabeth continued to look at hi ‘Okay We had got up to number three, I believe…?’

Rogan gave a hard smile ‘Both you and your methodical brain know that we had’

‘Yes’ She s to see if you knew too’

‘I know, okay?’

Elizabeth’s sht Nuer, her expression once again serious ‘You were in the aro, but beca whena ned fro with the five other men who survived The six of you ton three years ago’

‘You were listening to ed softly

‘Oh, I was listening to your every word, Rogan,’ she assured him ‘Your scars…’

‘A little memento of that last mission,’ he confirmed

She nodded ‘What happened?’

‘I’m really not allowed to talk about it But what I will say,’ he added, as Elizabeth grimaced, ‘is that mistakes were made Bad intel, maybe Whatever the reason, ere aot anywhere near co our mission’

‘And the other half, Ace, Grant and Ricky included, noork for you in Washington?’

‘You really do have a ly ‘They ith me, not for me’

‘At RS Security’ Elizabeth nodded ‘Ricky is number four on my list’

Rogan’s brows rose ‘Ricky is? Why?’

‘You care enough about hi after a woman you know is bad for him’

‘It’s what any friend would do’

‘No, it isn’t,’ Elizabeth contradicted gently ‘People don’t care about other people in that way any an It’s all me, me, me But you care about Ricky’

‘He’s watched an said

‘And now you’re watching his’

‘Move on to number five, Elizabeth!’

‘The woo…’ Elizabeth illing to let the subject of Ricky go if that hat Rogan preferred If it made him uncomfortable to admit he cared about the ive up on the rest of this conversation ‘I thought she was—Well, I assumed she was soht you still lived in New York, that is,’ she added

‘You an shook his head ‘Meg Bailey is a piranha who’d stab you in the back rather than stop you fro I’d as soon bed a crocodile as I would her!’

‘I get the picture, Rogan,’ Elizabeth assured hi Bailey wasn’t what she had thought she was ‘So who is she, if she isn’t your girlfriend?’

‘She works for Langley, the conments’

‘She’s one of the people who let you down five years ago?’