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That could change

He had once been deputy director of Homeland Security He had worked for the FBI and the CIA He was trustworthy, experienced, cleared for classified everything And in the current cli out at rando ripped out of his home office and pressed into service The very qualities that had sent hi for survivors could be activated again

Joe said my name

I said, “I’m here”

He’d gotten e oil on his hands and now used the to his touch I wanted to tell hi? I wasn’t sure And before I could protest, reach for protection, it was too late

I loved him

He was dying for me

And the feeling was mutual

CHAPTER 19

YUKI WAS ON the phone with Claire, both of them at their respective desks, two floors and three hundred yards apart

Yuki said to Claire, “I’ to question how ashot to death You have any thoughts on that, Dr Washburn?”

“You think I’m a sex therapist?”

“I think you may have a free and informed opinion”

“Hmmm,” Claire said “Well My opinion may be worth what you pay for it, so by all hts There’s a wide spectrum of sexual response, and so S and M, bondage, for instance There’s an eleht? Maybe the defendant knew or surht find rape a turn-on”

“I see,” Yuki said “That’s possible Or maybe she didn’t care if he would like it, but she did and thought it would turn him on”