She would always flirt with me. I never thought much of it. I just saw it as a woman being nice to a young man that worked for her. I knew her and her...husband were having problems with the marriage. My boss had been caught with another woman a few years back. And I could tell by the way he talked about her that they hardly ever had sex. She would mostly joke with me about things. Tease me about girls, tell me how cute I was, or ask me why I didn’t have a girlfriend. I just brushed all this off. In fact, oftentimes, quite recently, he’d bordered on contemptuous. Since they’d had no personal confrontations, Jack’s natural suspicions forced him to realize that something had happened to give Charlie reason to act and feel contemptuous toward him. Instinctively knowing what it most likely was, Jack had gone on high alert but without proof, he hadn’t made any accusations to Denise.Jack, a former Special Forces member, seriously considered giving Charlie a once in a lifetime private and. Rachel was something of an anomaly in the house. She was the daughter of a previous wife of Jim's. She probably should have been in college, but for reasons Parker hadn't paid attention to, she'd come into the new marriage along with him; nobody's daughter. Nobody's baby angel.While Parker had never sensed any awkwardness or tension, Rachel still seemed to live at an arm's length from it all, even though Jim had been married to Deena for almost a year. But then, Deena and Jim kept their own. "I wasn't sure what your, ah, size might be so I got several differentones. We've got a decent amount of stock so if none of them fit justlet me know."I nodded and just couldn't get passed the embarrassment and evenhumiliation I was feeling at the situation as I headed for the bathroomwith the clothes clutched to my chest. The embarrassment was kind ofunderstandable but the humiliation crept on me. Where had that comefrom? I shouldn't have been feeling that just because Agent Mathews wasbeing.