By the end of the month, Jeremy Hale had healed and gone back to work.

He started pressing Scarlett Summers for a real date — just the two of them, alone.

Scarlett had already made up her mind. She was willing. Two adults didn't need to play coy about it. A weekend free of overtime was all they needed, and one came.

Friday evening, Jeremy called. The invitation needed no explanation. Scarlett held the phone in one hand and the room key he'd given her before in the ...