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right before he roared and threw her to the floor. There was pounding on her door—someone was yelling. Brian was straddling her, hitting her, and then he suddenly wasn’t.
    In a blur, there was another man in the room. “Get off her, you son of a bitch!” he yelled. There were sirens in the distance, and the man who had saved her knelt over her and brushed back her hair as she gazed up at him, the tall redheaded prince who had toyed with her earlier. This was a man she now knew to be a powerful unrecognized shaman, using everything bad for his own gain. Dan McKenzie, her hero. As he held her hand, she said, “But … you’re a snake. Why would you help me?”
    He said, “It takes a snake to recognize one, a snake with poisonous fangs.”

Chapter 10
    Alecia was perched on the edge of her motel bed. The front desk manager was a skinny young man with brown hair and glasses, and he was outside the open door with one of the Sequim deputies. A female cop dressed in a light brown deputy’s uniform sat next to Alecia on the bed and handed her a damp rag that she pressed to her nose until it finally stopped bleeding.
    The cop was a little on the big-boned side, with short brown hair and huge blue eyes. She didn’t try to touch Alecia, but she didn’t distance herself, either. There was respect and awareness for what she’d just endured. Having someone knock her around like that had taken all her self-respect and self-esteem and dumped it right down the toilet, and Alecia had to struggle to look the deputy in the eye.
    “We really need to take you to the hospital and get you checked out. And it would be best, until we find Brian, that you not stay here.”
    Alecia only nodded. “You’ll find him? Because next time, he’ll probably kill me.”
    The cop rested her other hand on the bed and slid around to face Alecia. “How long ago was it that you broke up with him?”
    Alecia lowered the rag, but her nose felt tight, as if it were the size of a tennis ball. “A year ago. My dad sent him packing.”
    The cop nodded. “And that was in Boston, so he followed you all the way out here. Who did you say broke in here to help you?”
    For some reason, her throat jammed up, and she couldn’t say a word. Alecia remembered lying on the floor, dizzy and numb, as Dan leaned over her and Brian ran out. He had saved her, and when he heard the sirens, he said, “I have to go, but I’ll find you and make sure you’re okay.” He had hurried out the door.
    It didn’t take someone with a PhD to figure out that he was hiding and didn’t want the cops to find him here. She knew he was bad news, but the fact was that he’d saved her. She knew what Brian had been about to do, and the thought of it had a violent chill wracking her body from the inside out.
    “Just some guy. I didn’t really see him,” she mumbled, and she glanced at the floor. She could feel the cop beside her harden her gaze, as if she knew Alecia was holding something back. Hell, Alecia didn’t know why she had done it.
    There were more voices outside the door, then a light tap as a tall paramedic pushed open the door and strode in. He set down his medical case. “Diane, what do we have here?” The paramedic peered down at Alecia.
    “This is Alecia. She got knocked around pretty good,” Diane, the deputy, said.
    The paramedic shone a light in Alecia’s eyes. “Look up here, and follow my finger.”
    She did, and he prodded her head with gloved hands.
    Another paramedic strode in. “Do we need a stretcher up here?”
    “No,” Alecia said, and she stood up on her own before the other paramedic was finished. “Let’s go. Really, I’m fine. Just need an ice pack is all, for my nose.” Alecia started walking out the door, where the front desk manager was standing with a young maid who started crying when she saw Alecia. She could only imagine how bad her face looked.
    “I’m so sorry. He said he was your husband,” the maid said. Alecia knew the girl