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Claire's hands stilled over the keyboard. She looked at him with a mix of defiance and something else—a flicker of the secret Dean had been trying to uncover for weeks. "Maybe I'm just waiting to see if the new director is as ruthless as they say." The air between them grew heavy, the professional