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more she wondered if perhaps J.D. had released her long-dormant sensuality.
    “Something wrong?” Cole asked without looking at her.
    She wondered how to answer him.
    He glanced up and raised an eyebrow in question. When his gaze moved from her eyes to her lips, then darkened, she smiled.
    This might not be as difficult as she’d imagined.
    “Um, Cole? I was wondering about something. A few weeks ago, you kissed me. I know, it was a friendly kiss. Meaningless.”
    “A kiss always means something.” He winked.
    She chuckled, at ease with him, like normal. “Well, I was thinking. Maybe we could do it again?”
    He turned his entire body to face her, his deep-green eyes burning with intensity. His voice deepened. “Oh?”
    To her surprise, he sounded…sexy.
    She swallowed hard. “Yeah. Like, we could go out on a da—”
    J.D. entered the room in front of Max and Jurek. Seeing her and Cole sitting close, he stopped in his tracks and frowned. “What’s going on?”
    Cole turned to him and smiled. His welcoming grin warranted caution, because even Remy saw the challenge in it. Then he blatantly scooted his chair closer to her. “J.D. Hey, Jurek, Max.”
    J.D. continued to scowl at them and sat across the table so that he faced them head-on.
    She wanted to hug Cole. How better to show J.D. the other day meant nothing than to feign a relationship with someone else? Childish, yes, but Cole seemed to have no problem acting as a buffer. And, dear God, she needed one, because her libido cranked from zero to sixty at just a glance at J.D.’s mouth. She rationalized that it would be smarter all around if she and J.D. avoided each other. They could work together, but anything more personal would invite trouble.
    Max and Jurek exchanged pleasantries with her and Cole, then sat down and started the meeting.
    “Remy, you know why we need you here.” Max nodded to the folder in front of her. The same material J.D. had covered on Saturday lay in the file Max had handed her earlier this morning.
    She and Max had had a long talk earlier about that last night in the lab. She nodded. “I’ll do my best to tell you everything I know about Benjamin Carter and the Institute.”
    “Excellent.” Jurek seemed pleased. “I’ve arranged for J.D. and Hunter to pay our client—Mr. Brooks—a visit later this week. You have the information we’ve compiled in front of you. It’s not much, but the description of the man Brooks has been funding sounds like Benjamin Carter.”
    Remy glanced through the folder in front of her while Jurek continued to talk about his client and their doubts about Brooks’s sincerity.
    After thinking on it and making a decision, she spoke. “I think it’s more than possible that your Lee Brooks is pretending to need help in order to get a few psychics on his payroll. They’ll mysteriously disappear, only to fall into Carter’s hands.”
    She took a deep breath and offered the only choice to close a lid on Carter forever. “But I think I should be the one to see Brooks, not Hunter or J.D. It’s me he really wants. Why not dangle the bait so you can grab him when , not if , he shows?”
    The room stilled. She locked gazes with J.D. and couldn’t look away, curious as to the sudden blankness of his expression.
    He and Cole spoke at the same time.
    “Noway.”
    “Absolutely not.”
    J.D. frowned at Cole. “Do you mind?” he asked icily. “I have more experience with Carter than you do.”
    Cole, unperturbed, bit back, “Maybe so, but you’re also too close to this case to think rationally.”
    Before they could turn this into an argument, Remy interrupted. She had more to lose than anyone if this went bad. “Excuse me, but I know Carter better than anyone here.” She swallowed the memories before they overwhelmed her. “I know exactly what he’s capable of doing.”
    “Which is exactly why you shouldn’t be there,” J.D. growled. “It’s too dangerous. You’re an IT rep, for God’s sake.