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And he made her want to touch hi her hand, fro his hard

jaw Who could have dared to suggest he could force her into anything?

He stayed in position, leaning over the desk, his long hair frae she should have been terrified Not dying to reach out to him

Then her office door was pushed open, banging against the wall as she watched Mercury’s jaw clench, watched his eyes flare brighter He stayed still, silent, staring back at her as she looked around him to see Callan Lyons and Kane Tyler at her doorway

“Can I help you gentle?” she asked politely

Callan’s gaze went to the camera that had bounced to the floor across the room

“What happened to the caaze flat and dangerous, and he looked entirely too powerful for a man who had nearly died two months before

Ria stood to her feet “I don’t appreciate being tattled on,” she stated as she gathered the files fro, sliding around her protectively, keeping himself between her and the other two men “I’m ahat happened earlier may not have been particularly politically correct in such a setting, but I was assured Sanctuary was quite inforainst the table set up for the files she was using at any given time “I asked Mercury to turn it off” She looked at the carinned “I believe he may have taken me a little too literally”

“I jerked the son of a bitch out of the fucking wall before she could say a word,” Mercury growled as she rolled her eyes at him “I don’t hide behind a woman’s skirts”

Well, he was the first man in her life who had made that claied to borrow her skirts if the Leo was anywhere near

“Is he always so arrogant?” she asked Callan then

Callan lifted his hand to his shoulder and the enforcers behind hi behind the the four of them alone

“Mercury is usually fairly cal the scene curiously now

Mercury was silent, his gaze steady on her, those blue tints to his eyes al her

“I didn’t say he wasn’t calize for our earlier actions”