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Оглавление“Are you okay?”
Shawna gave him a faint nod, as if she wasn’t quite certain herself.
He looked closer. As well as the bruising on her throat from the earlier attempt on her life, he noticed the cuts on her knees and hands. “You’re hurt,” he said.
She turned over her hands and glanced down at her dirty, bloodied palms. “I fell...”
He suppressed a shudder at how close the killer must have come to catching her, to killing her. Whoever the hell it was, he’d gotten too close—too many times. Despite himself, Cole offered the promise she’d sought earlier. “I will protect you,” he vowed.
She released a shaky little breath of relief, but then she stared up at him and asked, “Are you sure you want to?”
“It’s my job,” he reminded her. But she was a hell of a lot more than that to him. She was everything. She had always been...
Everything.
