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Оглавление“What just happened?” Shelby demanded.
“Dynamite.”
She gave Barrett an incredulous look. “Dynamite? As in TNT?”
He nodded. “Plenty left around here from the mining days.”
“Why would someone light up a stick and toss it at me? It has to be the guy who threatened me.”
“Maybe, unless you’ve angered somebody else.”
She folded her arms and skewered him with such a look of disdain it almost made him smile.
Whatever she had or hadn’t done, it wasn’t his business. Yet once again, he found himself trying to extricate her from a pile of trouble.
“What makes you think it’s not the man who threatened me?” she said.
“Doesn’t seem like a rational thing for him to do.”
“He threatened to kill me recently, if you remember.”
“Words don’t mean much. My father believes him to be an honorable man, deep down.”
She met his eyes, her own glimmering with unreadable emotion. “I admire that kind of familial respect.”
Something was under those words, something deep and painful and raw.
