point over her head for a long moment before meeting her gaze again. They were alone and now just inches apart. He must have recognized it at the same moment she did. His pupil's dilated and his jaw twitched.
For what felt like forever, Dani stood stock-still. The breeze from the window slid over her face and her bare neck. And Ty's eyes stayed locked on hers. He raised his hand, brushed a thumb across her lips and cupped her face with the palm of his hand. Without taking his eyes from hers—giving her every chance to turn away—he lowered his lips to hers.
This was a test. She could feel it in the tension of his body, in the deliberateness of his actions. He was waiting for her to turn away, to pull back, to slam the emotional wall back up between them.
He brushed his lips across hers once. Then again. This was not the flaming passion from their one night together. This was soft and gentle. About the present. The future. When he raised his head up his eyes searched hers. She stood, accepting his touch. She still wasn't sure it was the right thing to do. It was too new. It was too different. And it was coming at a really bad time. But she wanted it anyway.
And then he moved away. Turned his back on her and faced the window. Dani blinked then ducked her chin. Turning away, toward the door, she searched her mind for an excuse. Then she saw Drew enter the room.
She glanced back at Ty, who met her gaze. Understanding dawned on her. She hadn't heard a thing, but he must have. He'd moved away to save them from being found by Drew.
“Drew,” Ty said in greeting.
“Ty.” Drew nodded then scanned the room. “Find anything interesting?”
Ty moved back to the coffee table and began picking up files. “A lot of interesting parties involved in this.”
“You could say that again.”
“Like I told Dani, Sonny and Savendra are outside my jurisdiction and the reach of my intel, way outside. As is Eagle's Wing. But I can focus on Getz. Maybe see if I can find out how he got connected to the militia, or why he's moving into weapons.”
“That would be good. Any insight you can dig up will be appreciated.”
“No problem. Dani, do you need help with these boxes?”
She shook her head. “No we've got them.”
“Then I'll be leaving. I'll put some feelers out tonight. See what might pop up. I'll come back by tomorrow morning.”
Dani and Drew both nodded. Ty gave her one last look on his way out.
“You good?” Drew asked. She turned and faced her boss and friend.
“Yeah. I'm good.”
Chapter 11
“ALUMINUM FOIL?” TY ASKED. His brother's laugh carried over the phone. Coffee in hand and back in his office after a long night putting out feelers on Getz, he couldn't quite believe what he was hearing.
“Confuses the hell out of the system,” Cam commented.
“A million dollar system thwarted by aluminum foil. Shit, I don't even know what to say about that,” Ty shook his head, setting his cup, none too gently, on his desk.
“I'd pay a million bucks to see you and your SEAL buddies decked out in full gear and foil,” Cam teased.
“It would cost twice that, I guarantee,” Ty shot back, still not accepting the fact that the best underwater audio surveillance system, the Hunley, could be thwarted by a common household product. And it was even better than that. The system didn't even recognize it as an error. So you could swim right up to the monitor and scream your head off but, if you were surrounded by enough foil, the monitor wouldn't pick up a thing, not even an error in the system.
Ty shook his head again and closed the folder that contained a printout of the email his brother had sent about the Hunley. “What about the Abram system? The visual monitor?” he asked, picking up another folder. This folder held an email from Jay with info about the secondary system set up around Getz's peninsula.
“The good news is it's not that reliable. We don't use it much around here because of that.”
“What's the bad news?”
“Bad news is that, because it's not used that often, the only information we have on it is a couple of years old. I'll send it right over, though,” he added, and Ty could hear him clicking away on the keyboard as they spoke.
“Well hot damn, imagine that,” Cam murmured, catching Ty's