“Now I want to take you to bed for a whole other reason. I just want to watch you sleep for a full eight hours.”

She laughed. “I haven’t slept eight hours straight in, I don’t know, ten years.”

“You kept these kinds of hours even when Sean was alive and running the company?”

“Yes and no. Yes, I kept these hours, but instead of taking several hours a day to play with the kids, I worked all those hours. In the beginning, we were trying to get the company going, and then we took the company public, in addition to the fact that I gave birth to two boys. Then, Sean was gone and there was only me to make sure the company stayed open. I had stockholders and employees to consider.” She shrugged one shoulder like it was nothing. “I just do it. Over the past two years, I’ve grown the business considerably and expanded into other areas. We used to handle small jobs, but now I take on projects worth millions, as you heard on the last call I took. The Knox Project that I’m doing now is worth over twenty million.”

He was impressed. “What’s the Knox Project? Are you working for Fort Knox?”

She gave him a crooked smile while she took the tortillas from the grill. She opened all the foil packages and made him a burrito of chorizo and eggs, cheese, and salsa. She gave him a big scoop of fried potatoes and onions and handed him his plate.

“Hey, this is my favorite breakfast when I go camping. How did you know?”

“Jerry. He knows all kinds of wonderful things about you. I love breakfast for dinner, so I threw this together. Not exactly five-star-chef, but really good all the same.”

Luke’s grin made her stomach tingle. “So you asked about me, did you?”

She smiled and his eyes warmed as they watched her. Instead of answering that loaded question, she steered the conversation to an easier topic, her work.

“Every project I take on I give a name. It gets tedious referring to the projects by the company they belong to, or the person who hired us to do the job. I try to pick a name that’s both fun and describes the project. Most recently, I had the Petticoat Project. That one was for a lingerie chain. The Knox Project is for a financial and investment firm. It’s the largest and most demanding project I’ve ever taken. The company hired me to secure their systems. I’ve worked on several smaller companies’ security programs, but this is like securing Fort Knox. Hence the name. Once the installation goes through and the company goes live with my product, it will be the newest and most secure security program available. The encryption and safeguards can’t be matched.”

“I had no idea you were such an expert. The way Margaret spoke, she made it seem like Sean had tutored you through school, and you were just going along for the ride with the company. That isn’t true, is it.”