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The way he looked at herSurely much more than the reasons behind his arrival on her ship?

“How did youthis exact assign Dr Evans transferred at the last minute, unless that was just a convenient coincidence, which I don’t believe Who owed you a favor? Or lared at hione to a lot of trouble to get assigned to her ship Why? Even through her blaze of anger that one word shouted front and foremost “Why? Because you wanted to sleep with me and I turned you down?”

“No”

“Odd,” she continued “For all your faults, I never pictured you as a suck-up, Cole, but you must have been to pull this off”

At least part of her accusationsWhy had he gone to so ain?

Cole’s lips clamped shut He wouldn’t tell her No matter how many times she asked or how she insisted, he wouldn’t tell her how he’d ed to achieve his presence aboard the USS Benja what he wanted was a prize worth bragging about?

Only he hadn’t quite gotten what he wanted, had he?

But he’d been on the path Seducing her into believing in his goodness, ht she knew about hiht he was a devil in disguise

Disgusted that she’d let her guard down, that she’d let hi toward theto be away fro able to figure out what the truth of hinment on her ship implicated

Why was he here? Doing this? Making her crazy? She wanted to screarab his collar and shake hi this after he’d so easily walked away froedly?

She’d just gotten inside the doorhen Cole grasped her wrist and turned her toward hiently

“No, Amelia” He denied her escape, his eyes blue fire “This ti to have this out”

What was he talking about? She hadn’t run away from him He’d been the one to ask her to wait for him and then he’d left Always, Cole had been the one to run

“There is nothing to have out Nothing” She thrust her chin upward “We’re colleagues, working on an aircraft carrier together As soon as this deployment is finished, our association ends”

“Our association will never end”