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for removing the bullet.
    It wasn’t like she had left it in on purpose. She hadn’t even known it was a bullet. She’d thought it had been something from the blast.
    They had blown up her pub. They had killed Daniel. And they had tried to kill her.
    She didn’t feel the need to push these bad men to see how far they would go, because she knew firsthand how malicious and cruel they were. That kind of fear, that kind of terror was now a part of her. Everything she looked at was a potential threat, as was everyone.
    It had changed her, and not for the better.
    “Sammi, please,” Jane begged.
    Jane had been pressing her for answers for the past thirty minutes. Maybe Sammi should have pretended not to feel well. It might have put Jane off for a little while. Enough so that she could leave Dreagan while they slept.
    “I know you mean well, and that you want to help. Please trust me when I say it’s better if you don’t know,” Sammi finally said as she stirred the sugar in her tea.
    Jane shook her head, her short auburn hair swaying against her cheeks. “Screw that,” she said, her American accent taking on a hard note. “I’m your sister. I can help.”
    “Half-sister,” Sammi corrected and then immediately regretted it when she saw the hurt look in Jane’s eyes.
    “Half, whole. It doesn’t matter. We’re family. You came here for help.”
    Sammi let the hot tea slide down her throat. Her mother had always said tea could help anything. How Sammi wished that were true. Nothing could help her now. It was only a matter of time before the Mob caught up with her.
    If she hadn’t been wounded, if she had been rested, the last place she would have brought her troubles was to Jane’s door. She’d put her sister and everyone at Dreagan in the path of a madman who had no problems killing anyone who got in his way.
    “I shouldn’t have come,” Sammi said as she set her cup down.
    Jane tucked her hair behind an ear. “But you did. You knew you would be safe here.”
    It was on the tip of Sammi’s tongue to tell Jane everything. She was so tired of carrying such a burden alone, but if Jane and the others knew, it would only put them in danger. No matter how tired Sammi was, she couldn’t do that to them.
    Jane had been so kind and giving, even when Sammi had tried to keep her distance. Jane hadn’t given up though. She had taken her time and slowly gotten to know Sammi with phone calls, e-mails, texts, and even visits to the pub.
    There was kindness and acceptance in Jane’s amber eyes and it took everything Sammi had to keep her secret buried deep. She had come to Dreagan because she knew Jane would help. It had been selfish and stupid, and Sammi bemoaned her weakness.
    She had just been so tired of being alone, of dealing with everything alone.
    However, she knew Jane well enough to know she was like a dog with a bone. Jane wouldn’t let it go until she got some kind of explanation. So, Sammi decided to give her one.
    “There was an accident at the pub. I was hurt, and I thought I could take care of it myself,” she said with a shrug. “It was stupid not to get it seen to properly. I’m much better now, so I’ll return to the pub this afternoon.”
    “That might be difficult,” came a deep, sexy voice from the doorway.
    Sammi’s head swung around to the doorway to see Banan and another man. Her stomach plummeted to her feet, because Sammi had been sure those shrewd, intoxicating, dark, velvet brown eyes had been nothing more than a dream.
    But as she found herself sinking, falling, drowning into them, Sammi was elated to discover the eyes—and the man—hadn’t been a figment of her imagination.
    She drank in the very masculine, very virile man before her. Without knowing anything about him, she instinctively knew he was dangerous and seductive, wild and alluring.
    Even as she silently cautioned herself, she was inexplicably drawn to him. The attraction was immediate and alarming. At the same time it