#supervisories

      Owen looked at his friend across the little round table at the noisy bar and grinned. Though he couldn’t tell Sawyer the details of his latest mission, he had told her that he’d be out of town on assignment for a while. If only she knew that he was being send to Vienna to assassinate a high profile lobbyist who’d been providing for terrorists under the table –– -   ❝ Me ? Trouble ? Pfft, where’d you get an idea like that ? ❞  Just then, a knockout redhead walked in, catching his attention as his eyes widened.  ❝ Speaking of trouble –– -  ❞  Returning his gaze to Sawyer, he leaned forward a little on his forearms and added, ❝ Ten bucks says she’s lookin’ just for my brand of it. ❞

 ❝ You know, Agent Cross. I’m a girl of the new millennium. I don’t like cops and  I have far too much self respect to lose my cool over a man in uniform. But you-- ❞ A small, curious, delighted smile pulls on Veronica’s lips as she wakes up  on her bed to Agent Cross tugging her favorite heels off and setting them with enough care on the floor to suggest that she knows they’re italian or knows Veronica wouldn’t want them manhandled. Anyone else and she wouldn’t trust it. Anyone else but the irritatingly good and dutiful Agent Cross. So instead of worrying, Veronica looks the other woman up and down, her throw blanket pulled up over her bare chest. She’d thrown her dress off five minutes before and entirely forgotten she’d done it.   ❝ You’re hot, Agent Cross. ❞ It’s simple and to the point. But she says it as though she’s awarding her a trophy.   ❝ In a good guy kind of way. ❞ Veronica closes her eyes then like she’s suddenly forgotten that she’s speaking to another person, and lays her head against the pillow, tucking her hand underneath it. “  ❝ I think maybe I could use a few more good guy types in my life. ❞ 

“coagulation.” 

“really?” she eyes the cheese tray and raises a brow before looking back up. “i sort of thought it was the short, gray, lesbian haircut i took on. but i can go with cheese tray. you can get a lot of good people with a cheese tray.”