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“I guess I’m not accustomed to men I can count on,” she said.

Caleb rubbed the back of her neck with his thumb, and a frisson of something sweet and sensual rippled between them. “Some men actually care about family and honor, about protecting women and children.”

Madelyn desperately wanted to believe him. “But you don’t have a family of your own?”

Intense pain filled his eyes so quickly that it sucked the air from Madelyn’s lungs. Then a shuttered look fell across his face, and he pulled away.

“I’m sorry if I said something wrong, Caleb.” Madelyn touched his arm, needing to apologize, to make up for whatever she’d said to upset him, but he launched himself to his feet and slanted her a look that warned her that the conversation was over.

Madelyn missed the intimacy she’d felt between them. But he was right to keep their relationship focused on the case.

Still, the anguish in his eyes haunted her. Caleb had his own secrets. Secrets he obviously didn’t want to share. Secrets that had hurt him deeply.

And for once, instead of thinking about her own pain, she wanted to alleviate his.