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wanted to hang out with Nick.
    “ Okay sir, and I’ll call in again tomorrow.”
    “Have
a good rest of the day, Agent Spencer.”
    She
pressed the end call button and placed the phone on the bed.
    It
wasn’t exactly proper protocol for an agent to get involved with someone while
on the job, but no Bureau rule said she
couldn’t accept a dinner invitation and if anyone asked, she’d gone with him to
fish for information. She laughed. She was pretty sure Nick would think the
whole thing pretty stupid. If it wasn’t sharing Bureau files with outsiders, which
was a no-no, she’d show him the photo of the bear. She could imagine his
reaction. He’d probably roll around on the floor and then say what a waste of
taxpayer’s money.
    Montana
was full of bears. It was full of wolves too. Would someone report seeing a man
turn into one of those too? She flopped down on the bed. Another thing that wasn’t on the can’t do list was have
sex while away on assignment.
    She
thought of Nick, of what she’d wear for their dinner date, and if she’d suggest
they come back here or maybe go to his place. She wondered if he lived in a house
or condo and what his bedroom looked like.

 
     
    Chapter Five
     
    Nick
wasn’t the “take her flowers on the first date” sort of guy so why he’d stopped
by the local florist on his way to picking Ava up, he had no idea. He’d like to
think that it was his way of softening her, winning her over so she’d give Downward Facing Dog some publicity with a nice article
in her business magazine. However, that hadn’t entered into his mind when he
walked into the store and picked out an assortment of flowers, including a few
red roses nestled in the middle of the bouquet .
He knew their significance but hadn’t asked the assistant to swap them for
something else.
    He put his nose on the bouquet as he headed
to her motel room and knocked on the door. He heard the bolt being slid open
and soon he was looking at the sexiest woman he’d ever seen. He’d said casual
and she’d hit the bull’s eye with her black pants, red sweater, black boots. A black
and red scarf wrapped twice around her neck complimented the look. Nick almost
whistled but instead pulled his hand around from behind his back and presented
her with the flowers.
    “These
are beautiful. Just what this room needs to cheer things up. You want to come in so I can put these in
water?”
    “Sure.”
    Nick
stepped inside the room and detected part human scent, part that sexy perfume
she wore. His nose twitched. He’d never really thought about how different a
human smelled compared to wolves and the other shifters. Good thing humans didn’t have such an acute sense of smell
or they might suspect something wasn’t right.
    “These
really are lovely,” she said putting them in the water jug and placing it on
the table by the window.
    “I’m
glad you like them,” said Nick.
    “I
love them. Let me grab my jacket and I’m ready. I’m starving.”
    He
spotted her laptop and wondered what she’d been writing and what her writing
style was like. Maybe she’d let him see some of her work later tonight. He was
an avid reader and in fact, read anything he could get his hands on, crime
novels, short stories, and also subscribed to countless magazines so it was
possible he’d seen one of her bylines. She grabbed her bag and they headed out
of the room. Ava locked the door and they made their way to the parking lot
where tiny snowflakes were swirling around giving everything that holiday feel despite Christmas being over
almost three months ago.
    “Do
you ski?” she asked him.
    “Sometimes.
I have a cabin up in the mountains so if I’m up there and there’s been a good
snowfall I usually head to the slopes.”
    “Cabin,
oh that sounds so rustic and peaceful.”
    “You
want to go see it one of these days? In fact, you’re welcome to stay up there
and do some writing, but I’ll warn you if it’s snowed you better have a