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Chapter 1

“Shit! Keep your head down!”

Eson i behind the low stone wall surrounding the garden The next shot passed overhead where she had been half a second earlier Her heart was haht sheout through the crispair “Wh—what should we do?”

“Well, honey, at this point I’d be pretty da!”

Eainst the presuart had been hired to protect her Right now clearly wasn’t the time to fire him

Instead she shot hi fire and didn’t even give her a sideways glance Even noith her life at risk and shots ha the stone wall at her back, she couldn’t co man she’d ever seen For the past teeks, he had been a welco behaviour

She’d been smitten since the mercenary had waltzed into her coer and heady sexuality, carrying his security orders froart race of an ex-Lawhs His blonde hair reh to allow thejaw and chiselled lips Even now, face s up where he’d been hit by the spray of rock shrapnel, she couldn’t look away from the intent focus in those blue eyes, currently narrowed and focused on the unseen enemy He’d be the perfect man to help her solve her little problem, if not for—

“What the fuck are you doing sitting there?” he yelled at her as he ducked down behind the wall to reload “I told you to get to the fucking house!”

If not for his filthy mouth

Em at us—”

“That’s why I’ to shoot back at them,” he retorted “It’s called cover fire, sweet tits”

She slapped him

She probably shouldn’t have, judging by the way the muscle in his jaw ticked But he didn’t raise a hand toward her Instead, he just glowered at her until she was quailing and told her in a very low, very calet your ass up andtoward that house”

She sed “I can’t”

His huge hand, one she kneas rough with calluses under his leatherher to look hiht

“Kai and Douglass are et inside before their positions are co to run I’ll be right behind you”