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Оглавление“Jesse, promise me you will never do that again...”
Jesse cupped Emily’s shoulder. “Do what?”
“Face down three men.”
“Emily, I can’t promise you that. It’s my job.”
“To die protecting others?”
He nodded.
“So you can prove you’re a good man?”
Her words cut him. “I vowed to honor the law and protect my fellow man, and I intend to live up to my vow.”
He heard the hard tone of his voice but couldn’t help it. Seemed she wasn’t all that different than the other young ladies he’d tried to court who either hated his profession or, even more strongly, hated his background. What had made him think she might be? Only his misguided dreams.
Not that he was courting her or had even considered it.
After all, who courted a woman who didn’t know who she was?
