When Nico first looked at her background information, he'd put together a profile of her that he hadn't shared. It consisted of the mental notes he'd made, the same kind he did on anyone else.

Married young, to her high school sweetheart. (Nico had found it was important to go back to the high school yearbooks whenever possible. You never knew what you'd find out.) The picture of her and her soon-to-be ex at their senior prom showed a handsome boy and a sweet-faced girl with big brown eyes, whose smile was as sincere as her boyfriend's was phony. Two children, early, then graduate school, then her Ph.D. Strong academic performance. Very recently split from her husband. No money problems, but looking at the spending patterns on the credit cards made it obvious to an old hand like Nico that her husband had been cheating on her for the better part of a decade. The spending patterns shifted abruptly a few months ago. She found out all at once and threw him out. Good for her. The thought came to him unbidden, and surprised him for a second.

So in his mind, this woman was emotionally probably pretty vulnerable, which could be problematic if she became entangled with one of the players. She was older than the players but very pretty in a way he didn't care for himself. She didn't have much dating experience (nothing he found suggested that she'd been anything but faithful to her husband), or, to be more accurate, she didn't have any experience. He'd need to watch her closely. A lot of these guys were magnets for troubled women, or maybe they sought them out. (He wasn't the psychologist.) Having a troubled woman in their heads would be disastrous for everyone. Although, when he thought about it, maybe it would be more disastrous for her. When he looked at the current picture of her in the dossier, she still had the same open, genuine smile she had in high school. She looked like a nice, good-hearted person (for as much experience as he had with nice people - nice people rarely had need for his services).

He had his suspicions about her and Matt, and he felt sorry for her. Matt was a good enough guy, and very uncomplicated, but he had a tendency to get involved with the women he worked with, meaning that the good doctor would find herself facing a steady stream of his exes. He also knew that she would find out, like his exes had, that Matt put the team and his career first.

The bottom line, though, was that he suspected that Dr. Santino would be nothing more than a blip on the team's radar. A suburban mom with no knowledge of sports or experience in the business workplace wouldn't last. She was out of her league.