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Of course, it may have made perfect sense to the people who killed her. She looked down at her hands on the tabletop. She took the tiniest sip of coffee. She hadn't done that much yet, just a hug where a handshake would have done, but the look in Nathaniel's eyes was much more serious than what she'd done.

It was like a different body pressed against mine, one I'd never touched. Could you really trap someone like that? Graham asked. We will be here when you are finished, ma petite. There are men that see no as the ultimate insult, but usually it takes more than a rejection during a bar pickup attempt to get this level of reaction.