DAKOTA "Are you okay? You seem shaken?" Ted asked. "I"m fine," Dakota insisted. "Just saw someone I wasn"t expecting at the bar." "The hulking dude?" "That"s the one. Anyway, you were telling me about bonds?" And not the fun kind. The financial ones that no one ever wanted to learn about. Ted seemed to think they were fascinating and had been talking her ear off for a good fifteen minutes about them, all while creeping closer on the corner seat they were sharing. She"d only gone to get drinks for them so she could regain some of her own space. "No, it"s okay. Why don"t we get out of here? I have some great coffee back at my place, I"d love for you to try it." "Erm..." She glanced over at Achilles, but his back was still turned. Maybe he really wasn"t spying on her after all. It was p

