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“I have to go.”

She shook her head. “No. Rand. No.”

“No one is stopping him. Nothing is being down. I’m not just going to sit here…” He ran a hand through his hair. “I can sit here for a minute. I’ll see what I can find out by phone.”

“Thank you. I just don’t think anyone needs to be a hero right now. We don’t know enough. I can call in my team.”

“Let me see if I can find out anything.”

They both inched down against the wall and he got out his phone. A text to the partners might do it. “What is going on? Update on security situation? Have police been notified? Standing by. Can help.”

“Stay put. The situation is being monitored.”Mr. Goldstein could have offered any more info, even a hint.

Coral’s breathing started to pick up. A line of sweat beaded on her forehead.

“Oh hey, come on now. We’ve been through worse.” He reached an arm around her shoulders to pull her close. “We survived a shark attack…”

She snorted and then leaned into him. “I’m sorry. I just. I can’t help but think this is my problem? And I don’t have my team. My parents might be right. What if I can’t have a normal life? What if I need a team with me all the time?”

Rand pressed his lips to the top of her head and held her close. “We’ll find out. We will figure this out. Would it be the worst thing in the world if they staked out the front curb?”

“Who? My security?”

“Right. Since everything here seems to have failed. Couldn’t be a bad thing.”

She nodded. “I’m sure when father hears about this, they will be doing more than that.”

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Coral leaned her head back against the wall, her shoulder pressed up against Rand. “I’m so glad you’re here.”

“Me too.” He was texting and reading and frowning and Coral waited. When he at last let his hand drop and his phone rest on the ground between them, she turned to him.

His eyes were kind. Gone was the sternness she sometimes saw there. He was only tender. “What a first day, huh?”

“What’s going on? Tell me and I’ll let you know if I’m okay.”

“They’ve trapped him in a stairwell. They have some back up coming and someone let the security out of their office.”

“So, it’s almost over?”

“I think so.”

She let out a long breath and with it a good amount of her stress. After a minute, she laughed. “So do we want to talk about the fact that we both work here?”

“About how you thought you’d never see me again but here I am?” He smirked.

“No, you thought you’d never see me again. And here I am.”

“Because you wanted to basically skinny dip with your boss before starting a new job?”

“Of course I did not want to do that.”

He raised an eyebrow which made her laugh. “You sure you didn’t?”

“Of course I did, when I didn’t know you were my boss.”

“Technically I’m not your boss.”

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