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His eyes darkened as his gaze leveled with hers. “I just want you safe. It’s what I’ve wanted from the beginning of this whole mess.”

Her heart contracted. “Scanlon—”

His head dipped. For a second, she was certain he was going to kiss her. But he froze in place, his gaze falling to rest on her parted lips. “Damn it, Cooper—”

It was a familiar point in time, she realized. A point of no return, when the tension buzzing between them could take on a new and dangerous tenor. They’d reached this point before, during long and harrowing cases when the whole world seemed to be spinning out of control. Moments when a little human connection provided a temptation almost too exquisite to resist.

But one of them always moved. Always backed away before they did something that couldn’t be undone. She waited for the inevitable retreat, for Scanlon to pull away and rise to his feet, putting distance and cold air between them.

That moment never came.