Stephanie POV

We finished eating my Aunt's incredible food. Yea, my Mother has her claims on being the best cook in the 'Burg but she doesn't realize she's got nothing on my Aunt T's Culinary GENIUS! Mmmmm this meal seems to be on another level of awesomeness, maybe it's because of the company at the table. I know some of the European countries try eating with all there senses, some how Carlos hits that sixth sense which increases the other five. I couldn't stop my self from moaning through most of the meal, which increases the intensity in his eyes. But after we both disclosed that we are both feeling something incredible and not ready to be away from the other has increased the reverence of our feelings. Damn these feelings are the makings of fairytales, this doesn't really happen to people but here and I pray it brings us our own Happy Ever After!

After we got settled back into his massive machine, I mean car. Sigh, this man makes me smh he is awe-inspiring. As we drive towards the business district, which isn't very far from the café and the bonds office he held my hand which he rested on the arm rest between our seats. Neither of us talking he is concentrating on driving while I'm in the state of pure bliss from our meal, his car and his presences. He parallel parks next to an ordinary office building, it looks like it's about 7 floors, it looks really basic and boring so not what I expected from him, hmm very mysterious. He parks and walks around to help me out of the car, such a gentleman. As we walk through the double doors we walk into a very elegant but understated reception area. I twirl around in the entry way which kind of makes me wish I was wearing a skirt so that it could bellow out while I twirled. I stop and see an amused look on Carlos' face but then it's gone when he throws his keys to the guy I noticed at the desk off to the side of the room. Wow is this guy huge, he look like he took so much gym candy he could make the governator cry and fast he caught those keys like he expected them to come flying at his face. Oh but his face, he looked so young, fresh out of army basic training with his military cut hair and dimpled cheeks.

I can see the Ranger persona envelope Carlos he just nods his head, puts his hand to my back and guides me to the left to a very executive looking conference room. "Babe, this is the largest conference room in the building and we use it for any visitors that are here. If they don't work here they don't get further than this room."

"Wow, does that mean this is as far as I go?" I asked him.

"No you're my Babe, and when you are working here you will be able to go anywhere." He broke into his panty drenching smile. Seriously smiles like that should come with a warning ahead of time.

He guided me back out of the conference room back through the reception area to another door, when he opened it; there were a fleet of black SUVs. "These are the work vehicles, the employee's are assigned a vehicle which they can use for personal use. You never know what can happen and each of these has tracking devices on them so we are able to be each others back up anytime of the day or night." He explained while he closed the door.

Guiding us back to the entry across the doors to the outside is an elevator which opened as we walked up like the elevator was waiting on us. We walk into the elevator when I notice there are no buttons to push for other floors. He must have sensed my curiosity cause he just answered "This elevator only goes to the 5th floor. If anyone tried to break in it would take them to where my men are and they would never get any further. If we were breached the elevator and be shut down trapping anyone in it. There are stairs but they are only accessible through the parking garage."

We arrive at the 5th floor, but before the doors open you can hear some sort of commotion. "Is that normal?" I asked him as the doors opened.

He just laughed, "No, I suspect there was a gathering in the control room and while we were on the way up they all tried to disperse much like a stampede of elephants. I'm going to have to set up a training exercise on how to be covert."

There must have been that invisible magical force field cause when Carlos walked out of the elevator poof he was Ranger again. "Babe, welcome to Rangeman."

I scanned the room and see a bunch of cubicles with offices along the wall to the right was some break room and in the far corner there was a office that kind of looked like a fish bowl. It was all glass and had so many monitors it was like a sports junkie's wet dream. All of a sudden a door slammed open next to the break room and there stood my dark angel from my past. He was scowling at Carlos, then looked at me and opened his arms for me. I took off running and leaped into his arms, holding this harden man that had been there for me during a bad time in my life. I held on to him like he was going to go up in smoke like he did all those years ago.

"Fie" his voice was quiet but since there wasn't any noise on the whole floor it seemed to echo throughout the room.

A/N: The characters contained in this story are not mine; I make no money out of this adventure. The only thing I get is the satisfaction of writing it and hopefully providing entertainment to you the reader! For the one who makes money of these characters please see Janet Evanovich.

Thank you one and all who are sticking with my stories and those who have just starting reading them. I hope it's worthy of your time! Much love and kudos to Margaret, she's the best when it comes to scheming up ideas!

Translation: smh (shakes my head) *this one is for you Margaret!