"Good, then we'll go out." He whipped out his phone, dialed Diana's number and within minutes lined her up as a sitter. Pressing the phone power button, he smiled. "Dinner and a movie okay?"

"All right, fine. I'll go." What could she say? He'd backed her into a corner of her own making.

"I hear fear again," he goaded.

She made a face at him just as the alarm on his watch sounded. He silenced it and said, "Time for you to go back to work."

Where had the hour gone? she thought. She kissed her ...