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“They kill for the sport of it.” Jeb clenched his jaw. “You think you’re going to find them by yourself?”

Green eyes flashed. “If it’s the last thing I do.” She halted, her bosom heaving.

“Like hell you will.” Jeb released her. He didn’t want to be affected by this woman. He didn’t want to be needed by her.

Instead, he thought of honor and integrity. Of patriotism. He thought, too, of leaving the country he’d just come back to. One more time. And his plans for California disintegrated like smoke in the wind.

“I’ll help you, damn it.”

She gaped at him. For a long moment no one spoke.

“Why?” she asked.

“Because I can. And right now you have no one else.”

“I don’t even know you!”

“You will by the time we get to Mexico….”