Over the next week, things changed and fell into a routine. There hadn"t been a repeat of that first morning when they"d held her between them and touched her. Everything in their three-way relationship had become divided in two. She had time with Maryk and she had time with Zale. But both of them together at the same time? Nope. Maryk disappeared every morning under the pretense of going to work. He always returned tense and moody. His jaw tightened, and his eyes turned icy when he mentioned it. He refused to talk about it, but whatever he saw in his investigations was obviously unpleasant. So she endeavored to make his afternoons happy ones, which seemed to suit him. Although sometimes she wondered if she was making him happy or if it was the other way around. Maryk made her laugh and

