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Emily clearly bit back an oath. “That’s my question for you. What the hell are you doing here, Major?”
He considered answering with the truth. I’m busy proving to my best friend how stupid I can be about one particular woman. And he might have, if her father hadn’t been sitting right beside her. She’d never mentioned what her parents did for a living. He could feel his palms sweating where they rested on the arms of the chair he’d chosen across from the Director of the FBI.
Clearly he’d landed solidly in the “bad surprise” category and that knowledge came with a bitter taste he didn’t like at all. It meant she actually was doing the impossible, sleeping with the Commander in Chief despite his being married.
“I thought you might need help. That attack came too close to succeeding. An
