Everyone in the Los Angeles Office of Special Projects is aware of three rules - that Nell escapes to the Burn Room when things get too much for her, that they should never interrupt her when she’s in there and, most importantly, that goes double when Callen breaks rule number two.

Nell’s glad of all three rules, because no-one but the two of them need to know how she vents to him occasionally, cries on his shoulder more often that that, but mostly how his hands wander over her body and under her clothes, how his lips trail paths across her skin, his tongue tracing her freckles, how she gasps and shakes and bites his shoulder as he moves inside her.

Some might not approve of Nell’s way of chasing her demons but she doesn’t care - it’s cheaper than therapy, healthier than alcohol and more pleasurable than both so, for the first time in her life, if Nell is wrong, she doesn’t want to be right.