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“I called the police and told them what happened The tere arrested and sent to prison”

“What happened with the girl?” Had she been the woman he had lost?

He shrugged “She thanked ain That was my last mission before my service ended and I left the navy”

Callu and that worateful If that had happened to Hazel, she would have wanted to find the man who saved her from rape and possibly murder, to thank him when she wasn’t traumatized

Looking at him and his handsome face and messy hair and into his blue eyes, she fell for hi off, the warave her a tickle in her stomach

“When I returned to the States, I didn’t knohat I wanted to do with the rest of my life All I kneas I didn’t want to work at a corporation, especially Colton Oil”

Hazel hadn’t expected hi, but welcomed it

“Being a SEAL taught uns and do both really well That was my skill set I ran into an old friend who told me about Executive Protection and put me in touch with the CEO”

“And the rest, as they say, is history,” she said, adround that he put to good use She sipped wine and put down her glass on the kitchen counter

“A little more history than I like,” he said

Could it be he’d talk about the woman he had lost?

“I al for Executive Protection a year after I joined”

“Because of her?” she asked quietly

He nodded, the lass beside hers, he walked into the living room and stopped before the s

Hazel followed, standing beside hi him to face her