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Eyes burning with fervor, Abbie leaned forward and her scent of almonds and honey teased him. “I can’t go back, Gray. I can’t just sit there and wait for the next shot through the window.”

He crouched beside her and reached for her hand, trying to ignore the kick-in-the-gut need touching her brought. He thought the distance of years had made him immune to her power to dazzle him. But there it was, fizzing through his veins like a shook-up can of soda. “If you testify, you destroy his make-believe world. Without that power, he loses everything.”

“You don’t get it.”

“He’s just a man, Abbie, not some sort of a superhero.”

“He owns me.”

Gray pounded a fist against the tabletop. “Nobody owns anybody.”

She turned her face away from him. “As long as Rafe is alive, he can get to me.”

“Not if we destroy him.”