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first time in five weeks, he got off on the anticipation. The battle.
    Time to get to work.
    But Fallyn wouldn’t be easy. He saw it in her rigid stance. Add to that the sharp curve of her cheekbones in contrast to her full, sexy lips and he might be done for. All that intensity mixed with feminine softness might just knock him to his knees. Again, something she was more than likely acutely aware of.
    A burst of adrenalin roared into his brain and he breathed in. Enjoyed the high. Sick. That’s what he was.
    Oh.
    Well.
    “Talk to me,” he said.
    Her head dipped forward. “Talk to you?”
    “Yep.”
    She laughed. “About what?”
    “About why you don’t trust us to take this tablet.”

Chapter Two

    Tony Gerard was good. Really good. Alluring, focused eyes, wide shoulders, an almost military stance. A man who knew how to control a situation, as he’d proved by corralling the media.
    He inched closer to her, crowding her a tad too much. “You know what the Justice Team does, right?”
    “I…well…yes…”
    She’d scanned the files on that tablet, finding nothing seemingly important at first. Receipts from a bed and breakfast in Virginia, a restaurant in the same town, and some ethics mumbo jumbo about previous cases the Supreme Court had ruled on involving military personnel.
    After what she’d seen clients store on tablets, her sister’s inventory was downright boring. One client was keeping a detailed diary of his multiple affairs on a tablet when he died. The diary, discovered when the tablet was retrieved from a secret safe deposit box, devastated his wife and three kids.
    “I understand your apprehension,” Tony said, “but you asked for help with the password and we came through. Decoding these files requires a little more time, but Teeg can do it, and anything on here is safe with the Justice Team. This is the team that exposed a crooked Attorney General and solved the murder of the Supreme Court Chief Justice. Grey has the highest security clearance possible.”
    “Heather wasn’t just a senator. She’s—she was —my sister.”
    “Even more reason to figure out why the tablet was in her safe.”
    “But…”
    “What?”
    Something about this code and the fact her sister had stored the tablet in the safe made the red flags in Fallyn’s brain snap to attention. This was top-secret stuff, she’d bet her Louboutins on it.
    But was it a diary or classified documents?
    Her brain spun. She’d dealt with actors, playboys, spies, military leaders, political pundits, and even a few holy rollers over the years. Everybody had a secret. Everybody had something to hide.
    Could Heather, her squeaky-clean sister and possible future president of the United States, have been hiding something too?
    Never in a million years . Heather didn’t keep secrets and if she’d ever made a mistake in her entirely perfect life, she would have shown it to the whole world. Thrown herself on her own sword.
    So what’s with the coded files? The secrecy?
    Jordan hadn’t even known about the tablet.
    Could Heather have been a spy?
    The thought made Fallyn chuckle and rub her eyes. She needed less tea and more vodka. A good night’s sleep wouldn’t hurt either.
    A diary would give her insight into her sister’s world, though. Maybe even insight into why the two of them had never acted like twins.
    It could also be damning if it exposed some deep, dark secret, or classified information that should have never left the office.
    She pressed her lips together before huffing out a breath. “Okay, look. Like you said, the fact that it was in her safe leads me to wonder why. I know my sister. She’s the goody-two-shoes, always doing everything right. Everyone loved her.”
    “And?”
    “And what’s on that tablet could be bad. She’s not here to explain it and that’s not fair to her. My job right now is to protect her.”
    “You’re worried you’ll destroy her reputation by letting Teeg decode the information? You