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But the prospect of starting fro pop diva, or spoiled playboy, or neurotic dotcoroaned and scrubbed his palms over his face

Perhaps it was tie He had kind of fallen into this job, initially as a favor to Brand and—Brand’s then business partner—Mason Carlisle Ty had uys whom Ty had shot the breeze with a few tiard Men he considered mentors and friends

With most of his friends still on active duty—and no immediate family—Ty had felt invisible and worthless back in Texas after his e He had just lost his best friend—Dylan Harper—and had been recuperating from an injury that had nearly taken his ability to walk Overco the physical, emotional, and mental obstacles had been a slow, arduous process

It had taken a year of hard, often excruciating, physiotherapy but he had recovered…physically The ress

His back would never be strong enough to allow for active duty again, but when Brand and Mason had reached out to Ty offering hiths, and that he daood at, Ty had happily packed his bags

Now here he sat, six years later, nearly thirty-three years old, and feeling aimless as fuck

He sighed;He checked the tied into his jacket, adjusted his shirt cuffs, and headed to the door—it was time to escort Vicki downstairs

The anticipatory curl that bloomed in his stomach at the prospect belied his earlier conviction that this job was predictable Because while the job really was boring and predictable…

She wasn’t

He squelched the thought, along with that annoying buzz of excitement A few ned, or on to so completely different, was yet to be determined

Allowing anything to further complicate the decisions he had to make before then would be foolish

Chapter Seven

Four intervien, and Vicki wasn’t any closer to finding Cassie’s replace presence standing in the corner behind her desk didn’t help He was a granite sentinel, ar…

He unsettled the interviewees, hell, he even unsettled Vicki But he was ada present Thus far, she had intervieo recent university graduates, a wannabe florist, and—the latest candidate—a young er for any job that offered a stable income Vicki sympathized with his obvious desperation but didn’t think he’d be the best fit