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Оглавление“Jess, calm down. I won’t hurt you.”
The words made no sense to her muddled brain, but they continued, quiet and assured. “It’s all right. I won’t let anything happen to you.”
It wasn’t the words that made her sink into him, but the voice that, even after all this time, she’d recognize anywhere. Her eyes hadn’t been playing tricks on her that afternoon. Will Gumble was in this compound. In her very room.
How could he act so casual? As if it hadn’t been ten years since they’d spoken? As if he hadn’t just shown up in a foreign country where she was being held prisoner? As if the very sight of him didn’t make her knees weak with relief?
“I thought I saw you— I thought that was you, but…” Her stomach pitched, fear and relief mingling with alarm and the echo of a remembered betrayal. “What are you doing here?”
His lopsided grin hadn’t changed. “Your dad sent me.”
“My dad?” Forcing a chuckle, she said, “I figured when my dad realized I was missing, he’d send a SEAL team to bring me home.”
“Not a full team—he just sent one.”
