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He felt responsible for her.

What happened with his car only strengthened that belief. Someone had tampered with the brakes and Chloe could have been seriously hurt…or killed. He shuddered at the thought.

She laid her hand on his shoulder. “You’re upset about your car, aren’t you? We knew this could be a dangerous assignment. We’re in a dangerous business.”

T.J. stared into those glittering eyes and wanted to lose himself in them, to forget where they were for a few minutes at least. He wished they were anyplace but here in the middle of a case heating up. He grazed his forefinger across her cheek. “I should have been in my car,” he whispered.

For a moment he allowed himself to focus totally on her. The house faded from his consciousness, and it was only Chloe and him, together in their own private world.

Then he heard the noise he dreaded—footsteps, approaching in the dark.