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“We can’t do this. Must forget it ever happened,” she insisted, her breathing still labored.

“Forget it? The bloody hell I can forget it.” Garrett took one long stride and reached for her.

Wyn slipped away. “We have to,” she said. “Have to make sure it never happens again.”

“Wyn!”

She evaded him, taking running steps back into the glow of lantern light. She turned as she pulled open the hatch, looking back at him over her shoulder, sorrow and regret clear in her eyes. “It can’t,” she said. “It can’t.”

Before he could stop her or ask for an explanation, Wyn was gone, slipping through the hatch, headed back to the safety of the stateroom she shared with her widowed friend, leaving him alone with the increasing whine of the wind and the echo of longing he’d heard in her voice….