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mind.”
    He gave a raspy laugh. “I can, but I’d rather you tell me instead of stopping this to look inside your head.”
    She glanced at the rows of bookshelves with different comic characters, memorabilia, and action figures. The whole office was like a giant toy store exploded. “You have a thing for comic book characters, I see.”
    She walked to one shelf with multiple versions of the same guy. “Who is this?”
    He raised his head and glanced at her. “Doomsday.”
    “I don’t recall hearing his name before.”
    He chuckled and continued clicking keys. “He’s not really a good guy.”
    Interesting. She continued down to another row. “Now these guys I recognize. Joker and Harley Quinn. The craziest couple ever.” She turned to him and frowned. “Why would you dedicate a full shelf to them?”
    He sighed. “Each shelf is divided by my favorite characters. At the top are collectibles. In the middle are comic books. Below are movie memorabilia.”
    The whole room looked like a collector’s dream. She rushed to the other side where she saw a figure that looked somewhat familiar. “This guy looks like Iron Man, but I can tell he’s not.”
    “No, he’s not,” he said and continued clicking.
    She slapped her hands on her hips and growled. “Well, who the hell is he?”
    Without looking up, he answered. “Sinestro.”
    She frowned. “Another bad guy?”
    “Yes.”
    “I didn’t realize you liked them so much. Whatever happened to Captain America and Thor?”
    “They’re pussies,” he growled.
    She choked on her laughter and walked back to him. “They are not! I happen to like Iron Man.”
    He shrugged, his brows low in a fierce frown as he stared at his screen. “He’s okay, but they’re Marvel. I’m a DC fan.”
    “What does that mean?”
    He stopped and glanced up at her. His eyes widened. “You’re breaking my heart here, love.”
    “Oh, cut it out. You’re lucky I know any of them. I’m not really into comic books, but that Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man is too tempting to ignore.”
    He gave a rough growl, his gaze back on the screen. “I’m warning you.”
    She stuck her tongue out at him, knowing he wasn’t even looking at her. “I don’t know what the big deal is anyway.”
    He inhaled hard. “You’re right. There is no big deal. The bad guys are the best. End of story.”
    She rolled her eyes and went to stand by him. “What are you doing now.”
    “Zeke gave me the guy’s name and address. I was able to get his personal information from his work file at the university.”
    She pulled a chair up by him. “You hacked into the school?”

 
     
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    Scarlett couldn’t believe her eyes.
    “Yeah. Then I used his direct deposit information to find out his bank. I got into the bank and I’m looking at his latest transactions. I’ll look at his credit cards next. See where they’ve been used.”
    Holy shit. If she’d wondered about his intelligence before, she didn’t any longer. Knox was really fucking smart. She glanced down his intense face to his neck, to his T-shirt. That’s when she realized it read E=MC².
    “Why are you staring at my T-shirt?” he asked, writing something on a pad before going back to clicking keys furiously.
    “I hadn’t really seen you in anything other than a dress shirt before,” she gulped.
    His bright blue eyes rooted her to the spot. Blue eyes, no longer brown. “I normally wear comic stuff. You may as well know now. As for this shirt, it was the first I grabbed. Do you know what it stands for?”
    “Energy something or other.”
    He grinned and shook his head. “E represents energy. M represents mass and C represents light.”
    “Right. Like that tells me the secrets of the universe,” she replied sarcastically. “I’m not the genius between us.”
    “All it is saying is for a specific amount of mass, if you multiply it by the speed of light squared, you get its energy equivalence.”
    She yawned. “Bored. Now