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Оглавление“Are you okay?” The question he always asked, the one that melted her anxiety.
“I’m fine. Why?” But she knew, of course.
“I upset you.”
She glanced around the glade, a pristine wilderness broken only by the train tracks.
“Only for a moment.”
He eased an arm around her shoulders, let it lie there lightly as if gauging her acceptance. “You’re safe with me.”
“I know.” And she did. In her head she knew. In her heart she knew. But bad experiences died hard.
When she didn’t pull away, Austin drew her close to his side and she rested there, letting tension drain away. Gently he opened her fingers and touched the arrowhead, a gray gleam on her palm. “Quite a find. Rare and special. There aren’t many left.”
Like him. A rare and special find. A man to trust.
She was terrified of loving again, of taking a chance. If Austin knew everything about her past, would he reject her, as broken as she was?
