she asked snidely , referring to the woman standing behind rashid , calmly pretending that this altercation was n't happening in the middle of one of the best hotels in washington , d.c. rashid glanced behind him and saw both his personal assistant , yvette who was glancing through his blackberry for his next meeting and then the man who had been watching the whole scene , the one who had been sitting next to the woman who had n't left his mind for the past three weeks .