Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.

He should probably make love to her.

You can’t possibly be afraid of trees.

The man in 4B wondered if he could have your autograph. He told me his daughter is a huge fan.”Fan? What the hell? Dylan lifted himself up and looked over the back of his seat....

You’ve stopped crying. I’m glad. I don’t want you to cry anymore.

He wanted to paddle her himself, then shake her, then sit her down in a chair and explain to her why she must never, ever get herself in a situation where she could be shot...

All he’d done was lose her underwear and practically get her blown up.Hell. This had to be the absolute worst first date of her life.

It worried him. Like him, she had to be exhausted. She smelled like gasoline; her clothes were torn. She had a small white bandage on her forehead where the EMT had cleaned her cut. Dirt...

She’d kicked Klein’s ass and still had enough moxie to tag him, and enough physical strength to get herself out of a window ten feet up on the wall.He really should marry her.

Yes, I am.” It’s what he did in the mornings, when she woke up and spent the first hour lying around in bed.

No, we don’t.” He liked meeting like this, over her bare ass, a hot-off-the-presses copy of the Rocky Mountain News, and a steaming cup of coffee. It was so perfect, he planned on doing it...

He caught her, and he held her, and he let her cry, and cry, and cry, and he let her use his sheets to wipe her eyes, and her nose, and God knows what, because...

I believe in love at first sight, and I believe that’s what we’ve got going here. I was willing to die for you. I’m sure as hell not going to pass up a chance to...

So I stole his car.

But if I’d known there was going to be a firearms examination at the end of the kidnapping, by God, I would have studied for it!

If you were hurt, I need to know.” It was a rule somewhere, in the good-guy handbook.

She’d never known a man whose initial move was to undress the woman he wanted.

He needed to gather her up, hold on to her, anything to help her stop trembling. Something was going to shake loose if she didn’t.