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together and vibrating like a tuning fork whenever they were near each other. He traced a finger down her cheek and smiled as she shivered against him. “Nah. You like me just fine, Red.”
    Scotty bent to kiss her, but she shoved him hard in the chest. He stumbled backward and she scurried to the other side of the room.
    “That will not be happening, asshole,” she said, her voice a tad breathless.
    He grinned slow and shrugged. “Whatever you say.”
    They’d consummate this relationship, sooner rather than later. He could wait, despite his pounding pulse and the blood rushing to… other areas.
    “So.” She pushed a wayward lank of coppery hair behind her ear and picked up her file again. “Since we’re both working toward the same goal, makes sense to split the load.”
    “What exactly are you proposing?”  He yanked open another drawer to peer inside.
    “A truce. If we work together, we’ll both achieve our objectives faster.”
     
    A truce, huh? Scotty hid his smile. He and the team really didn’t need any help to achieve their objectives, but spending more time with Hayley would be fun and having someone inside at the Bureau wasn’t a bad idea either. More intel never hurt.
    He shut the drawer and leaned back against the file cabinet then pulled out his phone. “Deal. Give me your number in case I need to contact you.”
    “Deal,” Hayley shook his hand, eyeing him warily as she rattled off her digits.
    His skin tingled from their brief contact and as he got back to searching, Scotty couldn’t help but grin.
    Yep. These next few days would fun indeed.

Chapter Four
    “Um, Michelle, when you have a second?” Hayley said as her boss passed by her desk the next day. This was at least the fifth time she’d tried to flag the woman’s down and each time she’d blown her off. Usually, Hayley had better luck impressing her superiors, but her mojo was off. Had been since yesterday.
    She still couldn’t quite believe she’d agreed to partner with Scotty Devonshire on the whole Natalie Matthews affair. And yeah, she’d investigated the hell out of the guy too, spending her morning digging up whatever she could on him and his SEAL pals. Just because her decision had been impetuous, didn’t make her stupid. If she was going to entrust even part of her career and possible promotion to the guy, she wanted to know everything she could about him. Hayley had to say she’d been pretty impressed at first.
    A bit of digging into the top-secret Naval databases had shown he’d grown up a Navy brat, traveling the world with his highly-decorated father. Then when he was eight, his dad had been killed in action. Something that seemed to inform the guy’s choices from that point onward. Hell, Scotty even looked just like his father—same sandy blond hair, same cornflower-blue eyes. Same devastatingly delicious smile.
    But then she’d come across a classified report that was devastating in a completely different way.
    “What is it?” Her boss, Michelle Harper walked up to Hayley’s desk, her expression harried. “Sorry. My son’s sick today, so I’ve been dealing with doctor’s offices and insurance snafus on top of the review board’s questions for our meetings later. Time’s short, so give me bullet points, Stevens.”
    “Right.” There’d been plenty of rumors circulating about those review board meetings. Word had it they were looking to shut the intelligence team down, which would leave not only Hayley, but the whole department, unemployed. They were only rumors but still, they added fuel to Hayley’s fire for a promotion. With an upgrade in title, she’d be less susceptible to the government’s ever-constant budgetary concerns. “Natalie Matthews. Widow of a Navy SEAL. Dead at twenty-eight. Questionable circumstances. Possible ties to a shadowy military cover-up. I’d like to keep working on this one, with your permission. I think there’s something there.”
    Yeah, right . Considering the