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memory?” she asked.
    â€œFloating with the bunnies.”
    She arched that scarred eyebrow. “The fluffy white-tail kind?”
    â€œUm…sure.”
    She eyed him, and he had a feeling he was slipping nothing by her.
    â€œHuh,” she said. “Wonder what bunnies were doing at your raid.”
    â€œRaid?”
    She lifted up the flak vest she’d obviously had to cut off him. The big white letters across the back read ATF Agent .
    And just like that, it slammed into him. Separating from Hawk on the roof. Hearing Hawk call out Gaines’s name. Having it all make terrible gut-wrenching sense and then being hit over the head before being shoved off the roof. It hadn’t been Gaines, he’d been on the ground, but one of Gaines’s men. He knew it. “Hawk,” he said hoarsely. “Where’s Hawk?”
    His angel/nurse gently set a hand on his chest. Yep, just as he thought, she had a sweet touch. Sweet and unyielding.
    Because she wasn’t letting him get up.
    â€œMy partner,” he ground out, gasping as he lay back. “Do you know about him?”
    Her eyes filled with compassion as she shook her head. “You’re the only one we have tonight.”
    â€œCell phone. I need my—”
    â€œWhoa there, cowboy.”
    â€œI need to—”
    â€œBreathe,” she said firmly, nodding when he gulped in air. “Yeah, just keep doing that.” She was leaning over him again, hands on his upper arms, holding him down. “That’s it.” She looked behind him to the pilot. “Ethan, ETA?”
    â€œTwelve minutes.”
    â€œAlmost there,” she told Logan, stroking a hand down his arm and back up again, in a manner that was incredibly calming. “You’ve had quite the night, haven’t you?”
    â€œI need to call in—” He broke off at a wave of dizziness. “Shit, this sucks.”
    â€œTell you what. You lie really still for me, and soon as we land, I’ll find out about your partner, okay?”
    He wanted her to call now. But there were spots swimming in his eyes and he thought maybe he was going to puke after all.
    â€œSo, do you remember how you got so dinged up?”
    â€œTook a hit to the head.” Which had hurt way more than he’d expected, but not as much as, say, taking a flying leap off a roof. “Then I took a tumble off a roof.”
    â€œYou fell off a roof?”
    â€œNot fell.” His jaw throbbed with tension and all the pain. “I was pushed.”
    She shook her head. “And I thought my job was hazardous.”
    Logan let out a low laugh, which had him groaning in agony. Again she bent over him.
    â€œKeep breathing,” she whispered, eyes on his.
    Yeah, he’d keep breathing, soon as he was done throwing up. He would keep breathing, just as long as he could keep looking at her….
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    H AWK WAS STILL HOLDING ONTO Abby, who was staring in horror at the handcuff on her wrist. He had to admit to feeling a little bit of horror himself, but he had to keep her safe, at all costs. Because that’s what he did, he upheld the law, he kept people safe…
    And she needed to be kept safe, whether she knew it or not.
    God . He’d handcuffed her to him. And somehow he didn’t think it would help to explain to her that sometimes to do the right thing you had to cross the line. Especially when he hadn’t just crossed it, he’d stomped on it. But, God, she’d tasted so sweet, so hot, he wanted to stomp on that line again….
    No. Bad.
    Focus.
    He was going to keep her safe, at any cost.
    The wind had kicked the flames so that they were surrounded, as if in their own, intimate hell. They stared at each other, her glaring, him stunned. Kissing her had been everything he’d ever imagined and more, so much more, because the reality of her willowy body against his had been better than any fantasy. If he hadn’t been