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Lana presses her lips together. “He has the main set, as far as I know. I have a skeleton key for the building. It’s what I used to let you guys into Dr. Clarke’s suite.”

“You have it on you?” I ask.

She goes into her pocket, and I have second thoughts.

I don’t know what that guy could be hiding down here.

We’ve already rattled his cage today.

Sticking around and potentially pissing him off more doesn’t seem like a smart idea, at least not while I’ve got Lana with me.

She brings a set of keys out of her pocket and offers them to me.

I let go of the door’s handle. “Doesn’t matter. The rooms are probably empty.”

Searching down here can wait. It’ll be more constructive to run checks on the men she’s got working here, starting with the one sitting in that locked security room.

“Okay,” she says, sounding vaguely annoyed before she slips the keys back into her pocket.

“We should go back upstairs. I’m going to need that list.”

She still isn’t keen to hand it over, I can see it in her eyes.

“I need to know who I should be watching,” I add, keeping my voice low.

“You don’t even work for me yet,” she murmurs back.

Smiling, I head back toward the elevator. “We can fix that before you hand the list over.”

She knows I’m right, and she doesn’t seem to have anything else to say to that.

Following me into the elevator, she keeps her thoughts to herself.

I lean back and watch her sexy walk.

Thankfully, Shadow took the edge off my lust for her curvaceous form with his mouth.

It doesn’t mean I’m not still thinking about all the things we could be doing in this elevator if she gave the slightest sign that she might invite that kind of move.

I know it would be too fast.

She doesn’t seem sure about trusting me, even if her instincts are telling her she should.

Physically, the attraction is mutual.

That doesn’t mean it’s okay to let things heat up between us.

She should know who I am to her first, and that’s not as simple as just telling her.

I wish to fuck it was.

My gaze fixes on her ass as she turns around in front of me to press the button next to the closing doors. My cock twitches against the front of my jeans, and I force my attention away from her body.

I’ve got to focus on keeping her safe right now.

Someone in this building is planning something, and I fully intend to figure out who and what before the asshole can get anywhere close to pulling the trigger.

Chapter Fifteen

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