"I'll believe that when you trade the stethescope for a habit." Although Parker had been wandering around Nate's apartment in one and that girl wasn't any closer to 'nun' than she was to 'law abiding citizen'. "See? Women have insight into women, men have insight into men. Not about who's weaker, but who understands who better." He grinned. "Now if we'd only listen." He was just as guilty himself.
He started laughing. "No ma'am. You can have all the violent thoughts you'd like. It's not right telling a person what they can and can't think."
Eliot twisted the empty glass around idly. "I grew up around horses. My friend's father owned a training stable for racing." Just another example of how things never went as planned but it hadn't been him. "A few people didn't seem too surprised when it didn't work out that way." He shrugged. "That sounds very...noble," he said, only hesitating to find the right word. It was. Free rein of travling and she stopped for her family. He couldn't even do that for Aimee. "You get to stay with your family but you still get the interesting job." He couldn't imagine the military unit she described being anything less than.