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After he uncaged her with one arainst the counter

He handed her a glass

Taking it, she said, “Princesses all over the world must have cast a spell on you”

“I’ve protected many princesses”

His deep, chocolaty voice and intimate tone riveted her “You have? Like who?”

“They were from Morocco, Spain, Japan and Sweden Most of them are repeat clients and usually need me when they travel”

Which lamorous life He came from a wealthy and prominent family and he protected affluent people But then, he must be used to that way of life

He was so different from the kind of man she had envisioned for herself after Ed ran off She couldn’t forget the promise she hadthat everything happened for a reason and that the rightnaturally, all right, but he’d turned out to be all wrong Nothing should be left to chance Maybe soood man was not one of them

After sipping souard?”

He took a moment before he answered “I was on aoutside of an apart woman came out and they abducted her I followed them Watched them force her out of the vehicle and into a house They had her blindfolded and tied”

Hazel listened with increasing horror

“I went to the door and knocked One of theestured with his hand, putting his fingers to her throat “I heard the girl screa for her to shut up I heard him hit her and tell her he’d kill her if she didn’t be quiet By then I was at the doorway He had already torn her shirt and was trying to remove her jeans He saw me and stopped and asked who the hell I was I told him I would be the last person he’d ever see alive if he didn’t get off the girl” He stopped as though back in the scene

“What happened?” she asked

“He got off her and lunged for his gun I threw it out of reach and gave hi Just before I knocked hiain I’d come back and finish him off” He drank some wine

“Then what?”