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I laughed. “They are almost robotic, aren’t they?”
“Exhaustingly.” He leaned against the wall of the cubicle I was sitting in. “Listen, I could hang around and help you go through those files. It might be a lot to figure out, and you could probably use a bit of guidance, right?”
Absolutely not. Not only did I know what I was doing and not need his help, but I also didn’t want him to see what I was up to. The fact that I meant to look into the past five years of the SEALs’ finances instead of just one was beyond the scope of a standard investigation. Jack had been cooperative so far, but if he knew how deep a dive I was planning to do, I thought he might have decided to stop me.
I giggled. “Don’t be silly. I’m sure you have plenty of work you need to do, Jack, and I wouldn’t want to keep you from it! I know how hard you SEALs work.”
“I’m only an NCO,” Jack said, but he was flushed with pride.
“Maybe that’s true,” I leaned forward daringly and covered his hand with mine. “But even so—”
“What the hell is going on here?”
I jumped in my chair. Jack’s head jerked up, an expression of shock and guilt on his face.
I knew the voice, but I still turned to see.
Sure enough, Brian Grant was standing behind me, a look of absolute fury on his face.
Chapter seven
BRIAN
Thefuckingaudacity!
She must have decided she wasn’t going to get what she wanted out of me, so she’d come in on a Saturday,knowingI wouldn’t be around—of course, she would have known, Henry had always taken Saturdays off—so that she could deal with a junior officer instead.
It was such a fucking cheap move.
I’d thought I had respect for her, at least, but now I was fucking furious. Just seeing her there, it was so transparently obvious what she was trying to do. Why she had come in today, and what she had hoped to achieve by it.
I stepped forward—and that’s when I noticed that her hand was on top of his.
Fucking hell. I knew that move.
She was hitting on him, flirting with him to get him to cooperate with her.
She seemed to realize that she was still touching him at the same moment I did. She pulled her hand back and got to her feet. “Brian,” she called.
“Sir,” Jack said. “I’m sorry. I was just trying to—”
“Jack, why don’t you get the hell out of here,” I thundered.
“Yes, sir.” Jack looked relieved as hell at the suggestion. He left the cubicle where Allison was sitting immediately bolted for the door. I guessed he’d probably gone out to get some lunch, or maybe he was just knocking off for the day. Nothing said he had to be here on a Saturday, and if I were him, I wouldn’t have wanted to hang around after getting caught aiding and abetting a fed.
You better take it easy, Brian. You know he didn’t do anything wrong here.
Yeah, I knew that. But my outburst was because I had to point my anger at someone. Jack was just the most convenient target, with one exception.
I turned slowly back to Alison. She was looking up at me, a defiant expression on her face.
“What are you doing?” I demanded.
“Going through the financial records. Exactly what I told you I was here to do.”
“Don’t get fucking cute with me, Alison.”
“Don’t talk to me like you’re my father. You’re not,” she retorted. “You might have known me when I was a kid, but I’m not a kid now. I’m here to do a job, and I will do that job.”
