Rafe POV He watched everyone file out of his office. Dinner wouldn’t be for an hour and a half yet. He turned his eyes on Jack. “Explain yourself,” he muttered. “They want to manipulate us, so I decided to enact my plan. Remember I said I had one. I simply had Gloria remove all the aroma sachets from the packhouse. I figured this would help both you and I get out from underneath them, for Gloria to tell Melissa that they were filling those sachets with the new petals. Neither of those two up there liked my response to those petals. This is what I wanted, hoping to get them to hole up in my suite. Hopefully they would be too afraid to come out, in case it meant coming across me…oh, you should know that I stalked Melissa this morning, just like I did Maria last night. Told her she smelled

