"Yeah, okay. Gonna be a tease, huh?" He nodded, though his expression mirrored her own: playful, joking. "I see how it is."

He rolled his massive shoulders in a shrug at her question, though. "Don't know. Maybe. If I had a place like this, I would." It was the spy in him, the deep-seated part of him that needed to know the ins and outs of everything and everyone. That kind of training was hard to shake.

"Pretty good, so far. Met some people, got a better idea what's going on around here. That's useful." He made a motion toward her. "What about you?"