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Ben Palmer? It couldn’t be.

In complete disbelief, she saw him coming toward her, picking up speed as the tree she was hoisting began to fall. Six feet and a couple of inches of darkly gorgeous but self-righteous, self-satisfied male who despised and distrusted her... What was he doing here? As though her life wasn’t already fraught with more problems than she could deal with. He—

She lost her balance completely as he tried but failed to help.

“Corie?” he asked.

She wanted to say something clever, sound flippant, as though it didn’t matter that he was the man she hated and he considered her an incorrigible criminal. “No, I’m the Druid that came with the tree. Of course, it’s me.”

She felt his sigh against her forehead. “I know it’s you. I want to know if you’re okay.”

“No, I’m not okay. I have twelve feet of tree on me and six feet of hateful man.”