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Carys stormed into Rafi’s office, her temper rising. She didn’t pause when she stepped through the doorway, but dumped her files onto the table, then slammed his office door shut.

“Did you break into my apartment this weekend?”

Rafi’s face dropped. His relaxed pose tensed and Carys knew she was right.

“I did not ,” he snapped.

He drew in a breath to continue, but she didn’t want to hear it.

Carys stepped closer, but not too close.

She stabbed the air in his direction, her temper igniting at the terror he’d caused her.

“Don’t quibble over the details, Rafi! If you didn’t, then one of your bodyguards did.

Am I right?” His expression answered her question and she kept going.

“How could you?” She spun around on the heel of her leather boot.

“How could you terrify me like that? And why? Was humiliating me not enough? You had to add breaking and entering to the mix just to make sure that I was appropriately scared of you?’

“Why would you think I wanted to terrify you? And how did I humiliate you?” He came around so that he was standing in front of her again, needing to see her expression.

She snorted, crossing her arms over her chest. “Don’t even try it, Rafi!

I saw you! You’re a lying bastard who would…

” she stopped when her voice cracked. But at the softening of his expression, she stepped backward.

“Don’t!” she hissed, lifting a hand, palm out.

“Don’t you dare come closer. I knew someone had been in my place but I hadn’t thought that you would do that to me.

I never considered that you would violate my privacy like that!

” She paused but before he could defend himself, she shook her head.

“Stop breaking into my apartment, Rafi. You made your choice. Leave me alone.” She turned on her heel and grabbed her files.

She thought about resigning, but Carys didn’t have another job waiting to go to.

And she had rent to pay. She couldn’t afford to quit her current job until she had a new one.

She walked over to the door but before she opened it, she turned. “It would be really nice if you or your goon squad could return my stuff. I don’t know what excuse you’ll offer for the thefts, nor do I understand why you would do something so irritating, but it has to stop!”

Before he could respond, Carys jerked the door open and walked out. She offered a tight smile to the man sitting at the desk outside, refusing to laugh at the young man’s shocked expression.

Carys returned to her cubicle, wondering why Rafi, or his bodyguards, felt the need to break into her apartment at all.