Once Upon a Matchmaker by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781459230385
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-06-07T22:31:12+00:00

Chapter Nine

It was almost a week later. Although there had been several phone calls between them, Tracy had deliberately not allowed herself to come over to his house on some pretext as she made her way home. She knew better than to think “out of sight, out of mind” actually worked, but something was going on with her. Something she didn’t quite understand and it made her very nervous. Especially whenever she was around Micah.

In short, she was reacting to Micah. To his home life, to his family.

To him.

And that was decidedly bad, not just because of the conflict of interest it could possibly represent but it was bad for her, personally.

In the courtroom, there was no question about it, she was a dynamo. But when it came to her own home court, well, that was an entirely different story. Her emotions had a habit of tripping her up, so she had learned, long ago, to just block them out. She’d gotten rather good at that, or so she’d believed up until now. She was not a person who made the same mistake twice and she’d discovered that leading with your heart, or any part other than your head, was asking for trouble with a capital T.

Been there, done that. And once was more than enough for her.

But Jewel had stopped by her office today with an update on what her I.T. guy, Neal, had uncovered on Micah’s supposedly “scrubbed” laptop. The news was very hopeful—but only up to a point. Jewel had carefully explained all that to her and now she was standing before Micah, trying to find a way to couch her words so that he was apprised of the situation, but didn’t instantly take it to mean he was now in the clear.

Because he wasn’t. Not yet.

She began again, following him to the kitchen, which apparently seemed to be his favorite room in the house when he was trying to destress.

“My investigator’s I.T. guy managed to dig up what was going on with your laptop that made your bosses so suspicious.”

Taking a couple of beers out of the refrigerator, he turned to look at her just before he set the bottles on the counter. “Donovan gave him access?” he asked, more than a little surprised.

Right now, even he couldn’t get access. Placed on restricted duty, he was given a regular laptop that had none of the high-security-clearance software on it. And even then, he’d been subjected to a couple of unannounced spot checks where someone from the human resources department would come up to his desk and put their hands on his laptop, halting all activity. He would have to step aside and wait while the other person ran a check on it to make sure it hadn’t been accessed again.

Each time, he’d cooperated, but it set his teeth on edge. Until this was resolved, he was a pariah.

“No.” Sitting down on the stool, she picked up the bottle he offered her. “Donovan still has your original laptop locked away.

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