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Alex recovers quickly enough, but with the surprise gone, all that remains in her eyes is suspicion “U we need to talk about so, so…er…do you want that to happen here?”

“Probably not a good idea” He gestures with his chin over Alex’s shoulder “Let’s take this into the briefing room”

Once Alex spins on her heels and leads the way, Ryder gently places his hand onlance up at him, he continues, “That’s all that was”

“Well, I wasn’t expecting to come here either” And here is a pretty impressive place Monitors line the far walls, one on top of the other, all connected to street cameras Beneath thebehind computer screens on cases that I’m totally sure are classified

I follow behind Ryder as he enters a black glass–encased roolass table and opens her laptop I glance behind lass, whichthat exposed e’re about to talk about the video

Ryder pulls out a chair for me “Take a seat, Hadley”

I give hianyone here see my discomfort I could do this Hell, I’s That was me

Though as I look at Ryder, who’s taking a seat next to Alex, being so strong and confident, and seriously hot as hell, I suspect this conversation won’t be the proudest moment in my life

“So…” Alex begins, placing her hands on top of her keyboard “Care to enlightenon?”

She doesn’t really need to sayher here was practically screah the air the second I walked into the room

The side of Ryder’s hts are in line with mine “A few developments have occurred…” Then he proceeds to recap all that he knows aboutand also that I had the video sent tohere and this isn’t my crazy life

By the ti, Alex in to narrow in concentration as her fingers fly across the keyboard “Oh yeah, I see the pop-up right here”

I put two and two together and frown “Is she hacking my computer?”

Ryder turns his head and watches ain “Would that annoy you if she was?”

“I don’t know,” I answer honestly