It felt like hours had passed since Trent left to go get whatever he needed to repair the sprinkler system. She’d let the building’s occupants know what was going on so they could prepare, and then returned to her car to wait. It would have been easy to go back to the office and leave Marty and Trent to handle everything. She could call Marty later and get a rundown of all they’d done. It would be easy.
The problem was she didn’t really want to leave. Being around Trent brought with it a lot of mixed emotions. At one point in her life, he’d been her safe place to fall. She still felt that, but there was other stuff in there as well, including how she’d reacted to seeing his wet clothes plastered to his body. It was confusing and frustrating—and that didn’t even factor in the complicated h
