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F riday night after work, Sara stood in the break room with Levi.

The rest of the staff had long gone and she had locked up the place after the end of the work night.

Jim usually stayed to walk her to her Lyft, but tonight Levi was there, so Jim had gone home.

“This is how we’ll talk,” Levi murmured and tucked a small white communication device into her ear.

She shivered when his fingers touched the curve of her ear before he pulled her long hair over one shoulder to hide the earpiece.

“Get into his office, look around, and see if you can find that other set of ledgers. Don’t linger,” Levi told her.

“Where will you be?” she asked.

“I’ll be outside watching the building and making sure nobody comes in while you’re searching,” Levi promised, and she nodded.

He gazed at her bright red shirt and suddenly pulled his t-shirt off and handed it to her.

“Change into this, you look like a beacon wearing that,” he teased, and she laughed lightly.

Last night, they had stayed out on the patio talking well after the others had gone to bed. The conversation had been organic, changing like the wind. They’d talked about things that really didn’t matter, but she got a clearer picture of who he was.

“Put it on,” Levi said, dragging her attention back to the break room and the shirt she was holding

He turned his back to her, and she hurriedly changed into his black t-shirt. It was miles too large, but it was warm from his skin and it smelled like him, like soap and all male.

Sara ran her eyes over his naked shoulders, the corded muscles on his back, and the way his jeans molded to his ass and powerful thighs.

“Done,” she said a bit breathlessly, and he turned back to face her.

“You can’t go out like that,” she pointed out.

Walking to the peg by the door, Levi slid into his black leather jacket hanging there. “I have a change in the SUV.”

He stood looking at her for several moments, running his eyes over her until she fidgeted, her fingers twisting the hem of the shirt.

“What?” she asked, lifting a hand to fiddle with her hair, then the earpiece, and again his shirt.

“You ready?” He smiled and walked back toward her.

“As I’ll ever be.” She made her words light to keep the danger of what she was doing at bay, but it didn’t help, and it must have shown on her face because he cupped the back of her neck and spoke.

“I’ll only be feet away; press the device and I’ll be with you in seconds.”

“And Rowan killed the video feed in the office, yes?”

“Yes. Don’t worry,” he said.

She nodded and they walked out of the break room.

She went toward the office door and Levi opened the back door to the alley.

Sara glanced at him and found him waiting.

With one last lingering glance, Sara slipped inside Kevin’s office and closed the door.

Searching Kevin’s entire desk took her a few minutes, but she found nothing. Heading to the safe that was located in a cabinet on the far wall, she opened it.

One night when Kevin couldn’t make it back in time, he’d had her place her laptop inside the safe. Sara had memorized the combination.

She didn’t expect to find anything inside because the second set of ledgers were supposedly a secret, but she checked anyway and found only her laptop.

Closing the safe, she searched the file cabinets and the rest of the room. She even did like Levi suggested and tapped on the walls and shifted to the side the only hanging painting.

Still nothing.

Perhaps Kevin kept them in the briefcase he always carried?

“Nothing. I’m coming out,” she said through the comms.

“I’m waiting.” Levi’s response was immediate and she smiled.

Having him waiting for her sent butterflies into her stomach.

“Stop,” she told herself as she left Kevin’s office and walked out into the hallway.