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wasn’t going to have that woman that night, he would regret it forever.
    “What was that?” Cassie asked, cocking a brow.
    “Good news!” he started, grinning. She looked hopeful for a moment. “You have a full six hours of my company and mine alone. Now, tell me, what do you want to do with it?”
    “I want you to tell me something that would actually make sense. Why is some damn SWAT team buzzing around me and why were people trying to kill me? Because that’s what was going on, right? They wanted to kill me. I’m a secretary. I don’t know anything,” Cassie said, resting her face in her hands.
    He was half-expecting her to sob, but she wasn’t that kind of woman. She wouldn’t break under the pressure, just bend a little, maybe. But that’s why he was there, right?
    “I can’t tell you anything I don’t know, honey. I don’t know what it is they think you know or have, but it’s apparently enough to kill and maim over. So that means you’re valuable. And I like to keep valuable things safe, you hear? I can promise you that nothing will happen to you while I’m around. I won’t let you out of my sight until I get to hand you over to someone who understands the price of precious things as well as I do, okay?”
    Who was this guy and what had he done to Connor? Like he was viewing the show instead of participating, Connor heard himself say all those things and worst of all, he meant it. It wasn’t just the call of duty that made him say those things, but he honestly, desperately wanted to be sure that Cassie was going to be okay. He’d bring the moon from the skies if that made her feel better.
    His bear growled deep within him as another whiff of her scent wafted into his nostrils, driving him mad with desire. Damn, she smelled good. Like she was meant to be in his arms and nowhere else.
    A sudden bout of jealousy hit him, thinking about how he’d have to hand her over to another squad the following morning. And along with it came the memories of another time he’d felt similarly, and how that had completely exploded in his face.
    Her name drifted somewhere at the bottom of his consciousness, taunting and tormenting him. Evita. He couldn’t muffle the snarl that rose to his lips when that name materialized in his head, the perfect embodiment of loss and humiliation and anger that he could visualize.
    Cassie looked up, startled at the sound. That tiny flash of alarm on her pretty features made him plant his feet firmly on the ground and cover the space between them with a few sure, short steps. He crouched down before her and gently peeled her hands from her face, cupping them in his big paws. They were a little bit cold and he barely resisted the urge to blow on them or kiss her fingertips to make them warm.
    A part of him told him to dig in his heels and stop, figure things out. But a much bigger, much more demanding part of him was having none of that and frankly, Connor agreed wholeheartedly.
    “Hey. It’s going to be okay, Cass. Nothing’s going to get you. Whatever the reason is, a solution will be found. You will start a new life and you can make it whatever you want it to be. So what if you got mixed up with some bad shit. It’ll make you stronger,” he said, believing every damn word.
    She looked at him and her hazel eyes twinkled with something he couldn’t quite read.
    So he did the only reasonable thing to do in a situation like that.
    Connor slipped a hand behind her neck and kissed her on the mouth, hard and deep.
     

CHAPTER FIVE
    Cassie
     
    Cassie gasped as his warm, soft lips met hers in a hungry taste, leaving any sense of modesty somewhere far outside the cabin. She knew she should have pulled away, maybe even slapped and screamed at him, but that wasn’t what she wanted. Despite what her rational brain was telling her, the irrational part of her was already well sinking into that heavenly kiss.
    That gasp turned into a moan and her initial hesitance bloomed into matched