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Claudia wasn’t stupid, and she most certainly wasn’t going to get stupid about a guy, no matter how handsome. No matter how her body and mind reacted to his presence.
In a way she’d spent her entire career getting to this place, this ship, this company, and she wasn’t about to jeopardize that with an ill-conceived affair with a man who couldn’t complete a question. Not that a single scorching kiss and a bit of wondering lust counted as anything anyway.
Which apparently was the case. For the first three days of her service in the 5D, she’d run into Michael at every turn. Now, as her first days turned into her first week, she’d only seen him at a distance. And not that often. Yes, he’d spent three days of that on the carrier, but the Peleliu wasn’t that big a ship.
He was avoiding her.
