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concentrating
on the game at all.
    “More truth or dare?” he asked. Just the words sent her
temperature soaring.
    To ward off her hormones, she said, “Okay, truth. Why don’t
we leave? There could be someone out here. Wouldn’t we be safer back in the
city?”
    He dropped his cards on the floor in front of him and
sighed. “Yes, it could seem that way.”
    “And? Or? But?” She waved her stack of cards at him.
    He held up his hands, asking for a minute.
    “Grayson, how can you expect me to trust you with my life?”
With her virtue. A tiny little voice in her head added that odd phrase. Grayson
might be trying to save her life (although that was up for discussion too) but
he definitely was not trying to save her virtue. He was after her. His lazy
sexiness was driving her mad. He just sat there and looked so good.
    “Robin?”
    She pulled her gaze from his mouth.
    “I didn’t see those two men until it was too late.” His eyes
darkened with the admission. “Just imagine if they’d kidnapped you. I messed
up. I didn’t see this coming.”
    Because he’d been focused on her. That made her hot
and itchy all the way through, so much that she could hardly hold still. She
couldn’t take it. She snapped. “So, this is all your fault. And yet, I’m
supposed to trust you and hide out here like a sitting duck. A very nice Merry
Christmas!”
    He brushed the cards lying between them aside and moved
closer. “I’m sorry I got you involved.” Grayson’s voice was filled with
honesty.
    She trusted him on that point. Still. Frustrated, she ran
her hands back through her hair. “Then work with me here. I want to know what’s
going on.”
    “I’ve told you everything I can!” He stiffened now. The room
felt stiff.
    “Then tell me what you can’t.”
    He let out a pent up breath, bumping the side of his fist on
the floor.
    When he didn’t answer, she pushed more. “Is it just you?
Isn’t there anyone else helping us?”
    Looking down, he nodded. “There is. I can tell you that, if
it’ll put your mind at ease. In fact, that was another agent sitting beside you
on the plane.”
    “The new bride?” she asked, thinking back. The girl had
looked like a teenager. “That doesn’t ease my anxieties.”
    “She’s deadlier than she looks. There was another agent on
the plane as well. They were both clandestine agents, trying to ensure I wasn’t
followed and that I made it off the plane safely.”
    “So there were other agents that didn’t see that attack
coming,” she said. Grayson’s face came up quickly with a dark look. Apparently
he didn’t like her placing blame on others. Maybe they were a close team or
even friends. To move away from that subject, she added, “So there are agents
out here?”
    He nodded. “I can promise you I will guard your life with my
own. I also believe, as I said, that we’re merely taking extreme precaution to
ensure this doesn’t cause any more damage.”
    While speaking, he’d laid his hands on her knees. In that
instant, she realized they were face to face, inches apart, with an
undercurrent flowing between them about to catch fire.
    With the warm light on him, she took in the perfect planes
of his face, the stubble on his strong jaw and the fire in his gold and orange
flecked eyes. As arousing as his looks were, the raging desire in his look
snatched the very breath from her lungs. This beautiful, wild man desperately
wanted her. 
    The days were ending early in the Oregon winter, and only
weak light came in the window as the day moved toward evening. Between the lit
lantern on the table and fire crackling, the cabin felt about as secluded and
seductive as any space could feel. Robin slowly stood up, trembling, but she
didn’t want to hide from the moment. Grayson looked up at her, in awe she
thought.
    While there was no doubt in her mind that if she had never
met this man, she would not be in fear for her life, but there was no denying
that she trusted him not only