“Oh, hi.” Her stare bounced between them. “Sorry, I didn’t know anyone was here. I come in early on Tuesdays to catch up on insurance claims. I just came back to turn off the alarm.”
“Oh that’s actually why Nate was here,” Eliza rushed to explain. “I left the paper that Dr. Lewis wrote the code on at home and Nate saved the day.” She turned back to Nate with puzzlement once again in her green gaze. “Wait, that can’t be why you came. How would you have known about the alarm?”
“I heard you cursing. I was on my way into work.”
“Work?”
“Nate works at Elite Security, it’s just two doors down,” Jarmen filled in the blanks.
“Oh.” Eliza nodded.
His phone buzzed and he didn’t have to check it to know who it was. He was due on a call with Washington. “I need to take this.” He leaned down and scratched Farmer, who’d been standing vigilantly beside Eliza. “Good boy, take care of our girl,” he whispered so only the dog could hear him.
“See you both later.” With a wave he left and as he pulled the phone out of his pocket. He knew that he had to put everything that just happened out of his head and focus on work.
He just had no idea how in the hell he was going to do that.