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their cuffs home with them. She thought of the fur-lined pair she had in her toy box. What would they think if she brought them with her to dinner? Would she be able to talk them into cuffing her and fulfilling a few cop fantasies she had?
    Or was she screwing up again? It was her kinky sexual desires that had sent her looking for a new job to begin with. And she’d chosen a smaller town to work in, hoping the rumors her ex had started wouldn’t follow her here. So what did she do? Jump at the first kinky invite she received. Maybe she should call Tanner and cancel.
    She groaned. She couldn’t. She’d put her number and address into his phone, but not taken the time to get his in return. She sighed. She was almost thirty years old. She didn’t really care what anyone else thought. But Danny had made it impossible for her to stay at her old job. He’d been all too willing to share things that should have been private. He’d told his buddies how she liked to be tied up and fucked in the ass—his buddies who worked with them at the hospital. They all worked in the pharmacy with Danny, but still. A hospital was like a high school when it came to rumors. She would never date anyone she worked with again. Lesson learned there.
    Then he’d gone ape shit when she’d broken things off with him. He wouldn’t leave her alone. Finally, it had gotten to the point where he’d harassed her at work. Her boss had been nice, but when Danny had caused a scene at the hospital, it had been suggested she might need to take some time off. She’d turned in her resignation and received her last two weeks as vacation. They hadn’t wanted her back. At least they had subjected Danny to the same deal.
    Now, she was in a new place with a new start. Lorraine had point-blank told her about Tanner and Mitch. And the other woman had seen her talking to Tanner in the parking lot. But Mandy could handle rumors. She could handle gossip and other people speculating. What she couldn’t handle was one of them doing what Danny had done. And these men were cops. She’d like to think that meant they were decent guys, but she’d heard far too many stories where cops were the bad guys.
    What if one of them stalked her? Where would she turn for help?
    She took a deep breath. She was borrowing trouble. Her sister told her all the time she thought too much. Her sister was right. Mandy took a deep breath and looked in the mirror. It was dinner and maybe sex. She could handle this. She wanted this. If things went sour, then she’d just walk away again. She had money. She could take a long vacation before deciding where to settle next. If it came to that.
    She would just have to be upfront with them. Ask them about being discrete and keeping things private. Obviously, they knew what it was like to have rumors spread about them. But that was all Lorraine had said. Surely, if they were into bondage or dominance or anything Lorraine didn’t consider normal, she would have shared that information as well. Mandy was already certain her co-worker liked to gossip. She just had to decide if the two detectives were worth the gossip that would come her way if anyone found out about her date.
    She closed her eyes and brought the two men vividly to her memory again. She remembered Tanner’s eyes when he’d asked her to dinner. They’d been guarded as if he were preparing for her to tell him no. That same look had been there when he’d admitted dinner wouldn’t be just the two of them. It was that look that had persuaded her to agree.
    She nodded her head. She was doing this. It might lead to heartache, but that was a chance she was willing to take. Because the flipside was that it might lead to heaven. She could use a little heaven in her life.
    She finished up in the bathroom and headed to bed. Hopefully, tonight would require her to be well rested.
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    She was a bundle of nerves. It was comical. She couldn’t remember the last time she’d been such a