ice now. I’ll see you around. If

the hall. He shook his head and smiled to himself. He made her

acktracked to shut the door then pu

Malone,” he said as s

nd

expected,” G

do you

er sitting in her office, her face a mask of upset. H

ome looking. According to Pop she’s extremely

ve you gotten anywhere with the phone t

r phone here and at her apartment as soon as I can get i

echoing over the phone line.

et. She hung up at one point, and when the phone rang again, she refused to answer it. I picked it up,

ou put Faith on?” Mick

l get to the bottom of this. I promise. Give me a few days to get the tap

you find out som

wil

d there for a moment, pondering all that he needed to do. To his surpr

. Connor, Micah and Nathan were all his age, and they all had a lot in common. For the first time, he wo

l

a surge of pain, one he’d tried to block ever sin

tice. Gray had seen enough of the bad guys winning in the sorry-ass neighborhood h

, G

gaze flickered down her long legs sheathed in tight-fitting jeans. Th

his chair, and he chased ima

ked, hoping he sou

Micah are going to eat and want you t

ing for his keys. “Thanks. I’ll head over

soft and feminine. He was half-tempted to reach out and touch a strand of her lo

rd her walk out of his office, and he glanced u

he couldn’t even stop to count. She sure as hell wasn’t a girl a man played with. No, she had keeper writte

d to find a time later when everyone was out of the office so he could tap the main line. If it had been Fait

**

watched as Faith struggled to heave two large grocery bag

he was close enough. Wide, startled green eye

help you with

lived here—Pop owned the apartment complex and Connor, Nathan and Micah

ned back, waiting for her to unlock

now which apar

old me,” he sai

ipped. I’m amazed he’d tell you for fear

our way of saying he’s a

“And private. Very, very private. It’s not like him to offer persona

mber?” he asked as he shouldered by her. “I merely of

d shut the door. “No,

ve settled that, where do

chen. “On the bar, please.

From the impression he’d formed of her, he’d expected pink, maybe yellow, lighter pastels. Girly

ies, dark blue, greens. The couch and love seat were dark brown leather, and they actually looked comfortable, like the

standard land line. Easy enough to tap, only he’d have to get into her apar

e stayed home. Friday and Saturday nights she spent out with the guy she was currently dating, and Sundays she usually went over to Pop

a subtle curiosity in her gaze, despite her reserve. Like she couldn’t quite figure him out. Join the c

ently plumped her breasts, pushing them upward until they strained against he

ely, though her body language told a different story

t I have to go. I’m me

ace. “I know w

d his br

of gorgeous women, usually brainless gorgeous women, o

my kind of gu

I didn’t take you fo

for the brainless type. Good observation, though it could have been a lucky guess. Frankly, he’d rather

dressed part,” he

s. “I guess I’ll see

icah, throw back a few, then he’d head over to the office to tap he

e door, her soft voice

for th

his head.

gain so soon after their first encounter, but then she imagined they’d be bumping into

illed in the line of duty. According to Nathan, Gray wasn’t much of a talker. He and

made up for Connor’s seriousness with their anti

ray would fit into the ecle

when she was done, she poured herself a tall

ir and moved the mouse to bring up the screen. She o

at the empty search field. What was she looking for? Did

e in a variety of words. Maybe by narrowing her choices a bit, she wouldn’t be inundated with superfl

ominance. Control. Submission? No, that just sounded wrong. O

d find a hunky professor willing to bend her over and…ohhh the possibilities. She

an having complete power over her

care

the biggest at

tless useless pages. Impatient, she ty

. Control

topics and clicked on a few of the offerings. Her brow

eah, she wanted a strong man. Someone who didn’t have to ask. W

up on it. At least then she’d have a better idea of

ut in today’s world, she supposed they were. A dying

t she wanted in a man, she was going

g and the downright bizarre. Honestly, she had no idea there were so many people out there who shared

her listing. Just as she was ready to give it up for