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ere, why he’d given her mistletoe

“Lukas had planned to start h stakes again, but Kelly went into labor a month early, less than a day before Lukas was supposed to be on a plane for a oing hi the rest of the tea me in his place on the team”

“He sent you”

Bodie nodded “When I got his call saying he needed ht to the hospital to not back to the States last night”

Sarah was glad she hadn’t knohere he hat he was doing Just thinking that he’d left had worried her enough Had she known he was on soh-stakes mission out of the country, she’d have been a nervous wreck

“I’ve always done my job well, Sarah This time was no exception” He paused, walked over to the Christmas tree, touched the snowflake he’d put there the day after the On-the-Square Festival “The probleain That if I didn’t, I’d be letting that IED steal my life the way it had stolen my friends”

She watched hiers, then flex them

“Maybe I needed to prove to myself, to everyone, that I could still do my job”

“That’s what you did?”

He nodded “Lukas has offered nments”

Sarah bit the inside of her lip She was happy for him, but…

“Congratulations, I think”

“I told him I had reconsidered my position at iSecure”

“What?”

“I don’t want to be sitting in some desert on a stakeout, Sarah I want to be here, at Hamilton House”