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“Is this really necessary?”

Selena glanced over at the stoic man driving her to work. “Brice, are you listening to me?”

His sigh slid out through a muttered “Aye.” Watching the rush hour traffic on Interstate 75, he said, “But you obviously haven’t been listening to me. I’m going to be with you, day and night, in one way or another.”

Selena groaned her own frustration. “We were together on your estate all weekend, Brice. And nothing else out of the ordinary happened. Do you really think it’s necessary to stay with me at the clinic all day long, too?”

“Yes, I do.” He merged onto Peachtree and sat silent in the stop-and-go traffic, then finally turned off onto a side street that took them into an aged, boarded-up neighborhood. “My estate is airtight and heavy on security, but working in this part of the city makes you an open target. It was too easy for someone to walk right up to your car and stick explosives underneath it.”