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Colby glanced into the dense forest on each side of the road, his internal warning system on high alert.

The sky was clear, the wind calm, yet there was a fallen tree in the middle of the road. He unbuttoned the safety on his holster.

“Watch yourself, Becca,” he cautioned.

She approached the fallen tree and then turned to face him. “We’ll have to move the log off the road.”

Inadvertently, she stepped into the arc of illumination from her car’s headlights.

Colby’s shoulders tensed. “You’re exposed, Becca. Get away from the light.”

He moved toward her. She stepped aside, but not fast enough.

A shot rang out.

For half a heartbeat, Becca froze.

Colby lunged and shoved her to the pavement. Two more shots pummeled the log. A third pinged against her open driver’s door.

A car engine whined in the distance. Tires screeched along a narrow path that paralleled the newer two-lane.

Becca wiggled under Colby’s weight.

“It was a trap,” he said, his tone sharp. “You could have been killed.”

She almost had been, he realized. On his watch.