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Оглавление“Get down!” Annabel screamed.
She rushed at Jesse, trying to cover him with her body. She shoved him back inside the house. They toppled over each other, Jesse catching her before she hit the ground. She kicked the door closed with her foot.
Lying on top of him, she met his gaze, and her entire body shuddered with desire. “There’s a shooter,” she said, perhaps stating the obvious but feeling she needed to provide a reason she had tackled him.
He smelled good, like mint and earth. Realizing she was in an intimate position, chest to chest, thigh to thigh, she rolled to the side, moving off him.
She came to her feet and crouched by the front window to watch for movement in the distance or even catch a glimpse of the shooter. “Someone was shooting at me, bullets coming toward my car and your house.”
Jesse left the room and came back with a rifle. She felt no danger from him, despite the anger in his eyes.
“I’ll defend you,” he said. “You have my word.”
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The Coltons of Texas: Finding love and buried family secrets in the Lone Star state …
