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Оглавление“Do you have any idea who might want you dead?”
He chuckled, but there was no humor in his tone. “Let me rephrase that. Do you have any idea which one of the many people your father has hired to kill you may have actually tried to do it?”
She shook her head, and the sudden movement flashed pain through her head and made her nauseated.
“My father didn’t put a contract out on me.”
Dylan stared at her, disbelief written all over his face.
“He wouldn’t,” she insisted. “If I had remained with you and testified against him, then he would have felt he had no choice. I understand that. But when I left witness protection and disappeared, he knew I was no longer a threat.”
“After everything that has happened, do you really believe that?”
“Yes, I do. But don’t you see? You’ve changed all that. If he finds out that I am in your custody again, he will believe I have accepted witness protection. Now I will be a danger to him. Now he probably will put out a contract on me. You have to let me go. You have to let me get out of here.”
“That’s not happening.” They locked gazes. “We are still getting you to that trial and putting you on the stand.”
