He stood at six foot two, with legs that seemed to go on forever.Still dressed head to toe in black, except tonight his jacket was a short leather bomber.Pilot's helmet, headset, night-vision sunglasses he looked like he'd walked straight off the cover of some action thriller. Cool, commanding, effortless.Claire, by contrast, sat pale and withdrawn, like a flower clinging to the edge of a cliff.The second he spotted her, Jonathan walked straight toward her.Under Nathan and Grandma Wade's stunned stares, he closed the distance slowly, deliberately.He dropped to one knee in front of Claire, looking her over head to toe. Only once he'd confirmed, fully, that she was unharmed did the cold, murderous edge in his expression finally start to ease.He pulled off his sunglasses, and that's when he and Nathan came face to face for the first time."Excuse me. I'm here to collect Miss Bennett."With that, he reached out and scooped Claire straight into his arms.Then he stood, turned, and s
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