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I hated that you were keeping your distance.” “I didn’t want to.” “I know that now. Thank God. Even when you didn’t say much, I knew you were dedicated to your job and honorable to the core.” “Maybe you’re reading me wrong.” “Of course not.” She laughed.

“Oh, Jordan. Oh.” He sensed her vulnerability, and his own. And this time when he kissed her, it was with a gentle possessiveness that was no less urgent than the whirlwind of passion that had swept over him before.

Elizabeth breathed out a sigh. “Will they come back?” “Yeah. But not right away.” He turned to face her and caught his breath. “What?” “Blood. Are you hurt? “I don’t think so.” Cautiously he inspected the spatter on her face and found no wound.

She sat rigidly in her seat, her blue eyes staring straight ahead and her elegant hands clasping each other in a death grip. He longed to slip a comforting arm around her shoulder and pull her close, but he remained still beside her. As the lead agent on the Decorah Security protection detail, he was her bodyguard, nothing more and nothing less.