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Why did that feel way too easy?

Max came rushing toward them. “Everything okay? No one followed you?”

Hunt was right. Max treated him like he was invisible. All of the colonel’s attention was on her.

Chapter Twenty-Six

Ali looked mad enoughto tear a man apart with her bare hands.

Something had gone wrong, but he could see no injury on her, no evidence she was any less healthy now than when she left. He glanced at Hunt and saw nothing there either.

“What happened?”

“We picked up your package.” Ali sounded like she was angry with him. Furious with him. She dropped her end of it and walked around him, going into the building without a backward glance.

Max watched her for a second, then leveled his gaze on Hunt. “What happened? And don’t tell me nothing went on, because she doesn’t get angry like that without cause.”

Hunt winced. “It was something I said.”

When the other man didn’t add any details, Max’smoronradar went off. “What is wrong with you people?” he demanded. “Have you seen us doing anything we shouldn’t? Like holding hands or kissing? Or even disappearing together for unexplained periods of time?”

“Um, no.”

“Do we call each other pet names?”

“No.”

“Why does every soldier who spends more than five minutes with us think we’re behaving unprofessionally?”

Hunt rubbed the back of his neck and glanced away. “You have your own language.”

“What?”

“You know, married couples develop their own code words and body language. When you’re in a room together, you each know where the other is all the time. You’re careful to keep each other in sight and if she’s in a room, you always look at her first.”

Fuck.Shit. Their relationship was already harming her. If he didn’t do something right now to explain both their behavior, the harm would be irreparable.

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