AN: come on people, 2 reviews out of 200 hits for that extra long chappy?

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Loren busied herself with looking for some slacks for Harm when she was approached by a small group of salesgirls.

She eyed them suspiciously as one started talking. "Ma'am, we would all just like to thank you for what you just did. Joanna has been a problem for this store since she arrived, constantly coming on to male customers and thus driving many of them and their partners away. She apparently liked the way your... partner looks and decided she wanted him, not taking 'no' and 'I have a girlfriend' for an answer. You caught a good one there, loyal and faithful, not every guy would say 'no'."

Loren ignored the reference of having caught Harm, as just minutes before she had pretended to be his territorial girlfriend. But she couldn't ignore the small thrill that run up her spine at the thought of having Harm like that. He was a very good looking man, after all. "So, she's done this before?"

"Yes, ma'am, more times than we'd like."

Loren scrutinized their eyes with years of practice in finding out if a person is lying and in the end decided they were telling her the complete truth.

"But that's not all." continued the apparent spokeswoman of the group. "She even once set her sights on a fiancee of one of the girls that worked here a couple of months ago. They were extremely happy, until Joanna decided she wanted him. She then constantly harrassed him, knowing full well that Jenny was very insecure as a woman. Then one day she claimed to have conquered Bill and have bedded him. We all knew it wasn't the truth, the guy would've castrated himself rather than cheat on Jenny, but Jenny was insecure and believed her, broke up with him and disappeared. It broke him and he started drinking heavily. Only last month have his friends managed to get him to dry out. We haven't heard from Jenny since. They were in love and happy, until Joanna decided that she didn't like it. That's also probably not the only time she did that. That's the kind of person she is."

"So, why haven't you reported her to the supervisor?"

"We have." answered their obvious leader and the others issued sounds of agreement. "But he won't do anything."

"Why not?" against her personality Loren was intrigued by other people's problems and sincerely wished to help. If only to prevent that despicable woman continue ruining other people's happiness and hit on guys, who are already taken by other women.

"From everything we've gathered she's sleeping with him. She's a good looking woman, men like how she looks, she knows it and uses it almost like a weapon. And because he's getting it from her he won't do anything. But with an official complaint by a client..." the leader, who's name tag said Lucy, trailed off.

"... coupled with a threat of a law suit because of her sexually harrassing customers would make all the difference." finished Loren, with a smile forming.

She thought for a second, then agreed that this was probably the only way to stop Joanna in her hormonal and destructive rampage. Loren felt a brief pang at the thought of being the cause for a person getting fired, but knew this was the exception when it was justified. If Joanna were to be left unpunished, she would continue to destroy other people's happiness not only undisturbed and unpunished, but would also have an advantage of meeting many men because she was working on the male department of a popular clothing store.

"Okay." she finally nodded, evoking relieved sighs from the group. "Get the supervisor here and I'll do it."

One of them hurried off, while the other three intended to go back to their jobs when Loren noticed that there hadn't been a peep from Harm since she'd given him the clothes to try on.

"Harm!" she called out abset-mindedly over her shoulder as she was looking through the racks. "Are you done?"

"Not yet." came the answer.

"Why not?" she rolled her eyes. 'Men! And they say we women take long!'

"All the cabins are still taken."

Loren rolled her eyes heavenward. 'Okay, so that's a legitemate reason for taking so long, but, he's a guy...'

"They're just T-shirts, Harm. You don't need a cabin for that." She shook her head at his theatrics. The man was wearing his undershirt on, for crying out loud, it wasn't as if he would strip down completely! She had never thought that he would be that shy. It was quite endearing, really, as well as frustrating.

"Er..." was Harm's hesitant reply, still obviously not agreeing.

"Come on, Harm, we haven't got all day." she called behind herself, while asking one of the remaining salesgirls about a specific cut of slacks.

"Okay..." drawled Harm hesitantly, followed by silence.

Suddenly she heard a sharp gasp beside her and turned to look at one of her companions just in time to see the girl's knees buckle. She was thankfully saved from a very undignified situation by her friend, who was standing nearby, looking behind Loren with a glazed look in her suddenly-black, smoky eyes.

Loren frowned, 'What the hell is going on?', and turned in an effort to find out the reason for the disruption.

She too was struck frozen in her tracks by the sight before her. Her mouth suddenly went completely dry and her hormones decided to come out and play after years of inactivity and disinterest. She didn't even notice the blood rushing into her face (along with somewhere south) from arousal and her nipples hardening, making obvious points in her shirt, she just continued staring at the tableau before her.

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