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Some loud voices were going on and he wasn’t sure he’d ever heard voices in the office before. Maybe if a client got worked up and started to shout, but that was rare.

“He walked in the door and I told him I delivered the envelope as he asked. Maybe I wanted to see if I could get a protective or concerned reaction out of him with the letter. I didn’t expect him to read it and storm out as if scorpions were overtaking the place.”

“And coming over here to protect Regan from the nasty little bugs.”

“I think this is more than dating,” Betsy said. “Zander is upset.”

“And Regan wasn’t and then just snapped at him. She’s never snapped at anyone before. How long do you think this has been going on?”

“I don’t know,” Betsy said. “But we’re going to get to the bottom of it.”

“Not sure it will be on our timeline. Regan has a client coming in in about thirty minutes.”

“Zander doesn’t fight long. I give them fifteen minutes.”

“Maybe ten if Regan takes control of the situation.”

“Do you have any glasses around here?” Betsy asked. “I’ve held them to the door before to listen.”

“It doesn’t work,” he said. “The walls are more soundproof here from the last tenant.”

“Bummer,” Betsy said. “I’m going to take a seat. Good thing Rocco is home today. He might have dropped a load just now with the way Zander reacted.”

Miles opened his desk drawer. “Popcorn?”

“Sure,” Betsy said.

He got up and stuck it in the microwave and the two of them took a seat and waited.

28

GAVE IT AWAY

“What is wrong with you?” Regan snarled at him. Close to the tone of voice he had with her not long ago.

He realized now that he approached this all wrong.

But all he could think of was the fact that the woman he loved got threatening mail and he had to find out through his assistant. On top of it, she was acting as if it wasn’t that big of a deal!

“Me?” he shouted. “Were you going to tell me about this?”

“I don’t know,” she said. “I hadn’t decided fully.”

His eyes got wide. “Hadn’t decided?”

“I went to get a soda. I came back and Miles was opening the mail. That was in it. He was upset. I was trying to calm the situation.”

“Why aren’t you upset?” he asked. This was too much for him. How could she not be nervous about it?

She even admitted she thought it was creepy to get flowers from someone, but nothing else came since and he had to admit he probably overreacted with that too.

“First, I am. Okay. But I don’t need Miles to know. He’d overreact and as his employer and a doctor that people seek out to help with their fears, I’m trying not to show I’ve got my own.”

Zander snorted. “That’s stupid.”

“Don’t piss me off more for how I want to have my clients or employees perceive me.”

She put him in his place. She was a lot stronger than he gave her credit for at times. “Sorry. Maybe. Go on and explain this.”