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Whatever else she’d been on the verge of saying lodged in her throat as if her mind had suddenly registered what he’d meant. A solitary tear crested and trailed unchecked down her cheek. Oh, hell. At that moment, he’d give his life to take away the pain in her eyes. Her knees wobbled.“Come here.” He made the request, but she didn’t move. And it took every last drop of patience he could muster not to drag her into him by force. But Eve was not a damsel in distress who needed a hero to save her.Not that she’d admit, anyway.
