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Chapter 44

Author: Desiree Holt
last update Last Updated: 2022-04-19 14:01:47
Athena and Grey hadn't spent a lot of money setting up The Omega Team offices. She'd contributed part of her retirement fund she'd cashed out at the police department, but the bulk of it had come from him, a nest egg left to him by his best friend killed in Afghanistan. They lived in the little two-bedroom house in West Tampa that had been Lucky's, comfortable and low maintenance. For the agency, though, they'd purchased an old warehouse in a commercial district. They'd walled off half of it for offices. The other held their sophisticated electronics and communications center. She'd told Grey when they had it set up she thought he might be able to run the entire country from there.

"Not so funny," he'd said, one corner of his mouth kicking up in a grin.

Setting up their relationship had been a little trickier. The sex had been there from the very beginning, but they had both been in the business long enough to know if you didn't handle things right, the sex could be the kiss of death
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