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Chapter 6

Did Dane really believe her? Or was he only humoring his best friend’s crazy sister? His face was so expressionless that she couldn’t tell. He looked like a statue or a bust carved from granite. His features were that chiseled, his eyes that unreadable.

His stare made her shiver. But she hadn’t been cold earlier—when he’d held her. Then she’d been hot, her body tingling with awareness. With attraction.

She sighed. “Yes, it’s definitely working.” She was losing her mind. She couldn’t be attracted to her brother’s enigmatic friend.

“You’re too strong to let that happen,” Dane said.

Despite her fears and nerves and sleeplessness, she laughed. “Strong?”

She had been going out of her mind.

“You survived weeks in captivity,” he said.

If she’d been stronger, she would not have been in captivity. She would have freed herself instead of having to wait to be rescued.

“You survived nearly losing your son,” he added.

A pang struck her heart, filling it with the fear she’d felt then when she’d thought she would never see her baby again. She glanced toward the stairs and thought of running up them, of grabbing up Blue from his crib, where he’d fallen back to sleep.

He was sleeping. He was safe. He was here—with her.

“I survived that,” she agreed. “Once. I can’t go through that again. If all of this—” she gestured at the windows and the door that she’d locked but the intruder had still managed to get through “—is so that I lose him.”