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intruding
afterthought. For the first time, he truly felt like maybe this was a
genuine lead.
                 “ I
just want to get one thing straight,” Brandy said. “Like I said,
I don't want the reward.”
                 “ You
must want something,” he proposed.
                  Yeah
– you.
                 
“ I
want a job,” Brandy said.
                 “ What
kind of a job?”
                 “ I
want to be a herpetologist, and I'd like to work directly with you in
the gator pit.  I can wrestle a gator better than anyone else.”
                  McEvans
looked doubtful.  Brandy did not look like the most athletic of
women.
                 “ Give
me an internship – but I have to get paid – I can't volunteer –
and you can trust me,” she said. “I know what you're thinking. 
I'm a big woman, but I can carry my weight, and I know what I'm
doing.”
                 “ Uh
– okay,” he said.  “I just don't want anybody getting hurt
on my watch.”
                 “ There's
something else if I bring her to you,” she added. “Shirley needs
her own space AND you can't keep her locked up.  You need to let
her go back to her home-base once a week for at least a couple of
days. Or, better yet, you can have her onsite every other week.
She’ll get used to that routine, I think.”
                 “ That
doesn't make sense.”
                 “ Yes
it does,” Brandy told him.  “She ran away, right?  A
woman needs space.   Shirley needs
space. If you love that gator, set her free.  If she loves you
back, she'll come back to you.  I think she liked it here at
Animal Sphere, but she just needed a break.”
                  McEvans
studied her again.   She
seems so familiar, he
thought.   Where
have I met her before?
                 “ I
don't get this whole alligator-psychology thing you're trying to sell
me on,” he said. “But to tell the truth, I never thought that
gators had any kind of higher intelligence until I met Shirley. 
And it looks like I've lost her for good unless someone trustworthy
can bring her back.”
                 “ You
can trust me, Jake,” Brandy said.  It was the first time she
said his name.
                 “ Well,
if you say that you think you understand this gator and can bring her
back,” he said, “and if you have a way of letting me keep her
somehow in the long run without her leaving me again, then I'm
willing to take a shot.”
                  She
stood up and they shook hands on it.  The touch of Jake McEvans
hand in hers caused Brandy to catch her breath.  His hand was
callused and firm, and she wanted him to wrestle her again right then
and there. Brandy
wanted nothing more than for Jake McEvans to just get up on her back
and wrap those manly hands around her jaws to keep them shut!
                  Outside
his office, on her way down the corridor, Brandy ran into Rachel
again.  She didn't seem to be in a good mood.
                 “ So
what's the story?” she asked. “Can you really bring Shirley
back?”
                 “ I'm
pretty sure,” Brandy said.
                 “ Oh,”
Rachel replied.
                  Brandy
paused.
                 “ Is
something wrong?”
                  Rachel
hesitated, then for some reason felt like she could talk to Brandy.
                 “ I've
been with Jake for two years now,” she said. “And I've gotten
used to the long hours, and the travel, and the danger.  I get
it.  He works with wild animals.  He's very good at it, and
I love that he's a man with a passion...”
                  Her
voice trailed off.

             “ But?”
                 “ But,”
she said,