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am.”
    “That’s why you left our team?”
    “I left our team because the man sleeping in my bed got himself engaged to a woman.” And didn’t Neil sound plenty pissed about that still?
    “I made a mistake.”
    “So did I. I trusted you.”
    “You’ll trust me again.”
    “ No. ”
    “Yeah. You’re my one and only, and I ain’t lettin’ you go again, darlin’.”
    “Stop talking like a redneck.”
    “You like it when I let my twang show.”
    “Not anymore, asshole.”
    They’d see about that. They surely would. “Get some sleep, darlin’. We’ve got plenty of time to go at it. I’m not going anywhere.”
    And neither was his man. Not this time.

    Kadin woke with his arm draped across Rachel’s midsection, his hand curved possessively at her waist. Dawn’s early light filtered through the tent, and he luxuriated in the ability to gaze at this woman once again.
    Her eyelids fluttered and then opened. Dark brown eyes blinked up at him, incomprehension giving way to memory in a matter of seconds. Cowboy had been right. The woman was a damn fine agent with an agile brain.
    She was also one of those rare brunettes with blue eyes.
    “Shit. You’re wearing contacts.” And they had to be pretty damn dry about now.
    She nodded with a minuscule movement of her head, as if doing even that hurt.
    He grabbed his comm-link and barked, “Doc.”
    “Sí?” The woman sounded tired, but then, she’d checked on her patient every couple of hours through the night.
    “Rachel’s wearing colored contacts for her cover. I couldn’t tell last night in the dark.” He thought her light brown hair was a few shades darker, too, but hair dye wasn’t about to hurt her.
    Contacts left in too long could do some damage, though.
    “I’ll get a saline wash ready.”
    Kadin didn’t bother to reply, figuring the medic was already busy pulling her supplies together.
    “Thirsty,” Rachel croaked.
    Kadin grabbed his water bottle and brought it to her lips. She drank deeply, and he let her. By the time she was done, Eva had arrived.
    She washed Rachel’s eyes with the saline for several long seconds before instructing her to blink rapidly.
    Doc repeated the process until there was a wet spot on the small pillow under Rachel’s head and the smell of salt water permeated the air. “Okay, I think it should be okay to take them out.”
    Rachel nodded and reached up to do it.
    Doc pushed her hand back down. “Let me.”
    Rachel did, and a second later, her pretty blue eyes, bloodshot but looking otherwise okay, were staring up at Kadin.
    “That’s better,” he said gruffly, glad to see her unhindered pale gaze once again.
    “I kind of liked the brown,” she whispered with a wry smile.
    He shook his head decisively. “Blue is better.”
    “I didn’t know you had that preference, Trig,” Doc said as she packed up her stuff. “No wonder you never made a move on me.”
    “I didn’t make a move on you because I knew you could slice my balls off in my sleep, and I like the boys just where they are.”
    Doc laughed, but Rachel looked between them as if trying to figure something out.
    He brushed his fingers through the damp hair at her temple. “What?”
    Rachel just shook her head.
    “Did you need the contacts for vision, or were they simply cover?” Doc asked Rachel.
    “Cover,” Rachel replied quietly.
    “Is there something you can give her for her throat, so she can talk more easily?” Kadin asked.
    “If she needed it, I could give her a steroid shot, but she’s better off just letting her vocal cords heal. Try to keep her from talking, and definitely no yelling.” Doc gave him the stink-eye.
    Kadin frowned. “You act like I pick fights with everybody.”
    “Don’t you?”
    “Hell, no.”
    “Oh, really?”
    “Really. You ever hear Peace yell at me?”
    “Peace doesn’t yell at anybody.”
    “Kadin still likes to poke at people?” Rachel asked the medic.
    Doc frowned at Kadin. “You’re saying