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Lind cut her off forcefully, “I know you are.”
     
    “Fine,” Eve said after a moment. “But until you tell me what the danger is, I’m not going anywhere.”
     
    Lind suppressed the wave of anger that came over him. She was driving him nuts. Could she not see the urgency written all over his face?
     
    “I’m not going to involve you—”
     
    “Sounds to me like I’m involved enough,” Eve cut him off.
     
    “It’s not about you.”
     
    “Then, why are you asking me to leave my house?”
     
    Lind exhaled in frustration. “Someone’s after me,” he said, finally conceding to revealing some part of the truth.
     
    “Who?”
     
    “ That really doesn’t concern you,” Lind dismissed. “They have reached out to let me know they’ll be going after the people I care about, so I need you to please come with me where I can protect you.”
     
    Eve was silent for a few moments. She seemed to be letting the words sink in and weighing her options. When she finally spoke again, it was nothing Lind would have expected.
     
    “No,” she said.
     
    Lind blinked. “Excuse me?”
     
    “I said, no,” Eve repeated, more forcefully. “I’m not going back to your club’s headquarters so that you and your friends can guard me like I’m in some sort of witness program. No.”
     
    Lind took a steadying breath. “Eve,” he said, with a calmness he did not feel, “I have to hunt this bastard down and get rid of him before he gets rid of me. That means I can’t be here watching you 24/7. I need you to be in a place where there are people who can keep an eye on you.”
     
    Eve looked unimpressed. “I’ll be fine on my own, thank you.”
     
    “No, you won’t—”
     
    “Listen, this is not negotiable,” she interrupted, anger creeping back in her voice. “I’m not the one who chose to be in a gang, and I’ll be damned if I’ll alter my lifestyle because of your choices.” She stood, her whole frame taut with tension. “I’m not leaving my house.”
     
    Lind stared at her. He forced himself to dismiss the impact her words had on him; now was not the time to be sensitive. “Then I’ll send someone to be with you at all times.”
     
    Eve snorted. “No, thanks.”
     
    “ That ’s not negotiable.”
     
    They stood unmoving in Eve’s living room, staring at each other with defiance in their eyes. It was a battle of wills, and neither of them was going to back down.
     
    “Fine,” Eve finally said, giving in to at least this one request. “Send whoever. Also, get me a gun.”
     
    Lind stared at her in surprise. “What?”
     
    “You heard me,” Eve said. “I want to be able to protect myself.”
     
    “From the one who’s after you or from the one I’m sending to protect you?” Lind didn’t know what prompted him to ask that question, but as he uttered the words he knew it was a legitimate doubt to have. Eve had begun to show her feelings towards the MC, and they didn’t seem to be amicable ones.
     
    “Both,” Eve admitted readily.
     
    Lind did his best to hide his shock. It was one thing to suspect something; it was another matter entirely to have those suspicions confirmed.
     
    “Do you really think I would send you someone untrustworthy?”
     
    “No,” Eve said. “But they’re worthy of your trust, not mine. I don’t know these people.”
     
    “Isn’t it enough that I know them?”
     
    Eve stared at him straight in the eye. “No.”
     
    Lind shook his head, but he decided not to argue the point any further. If a gun was going to make her agree to have a bodyguard, so be it. “Fine,” he said. “I’ll get you a gun. Do you even know how to use it?”
     
    “I’ll learn.”
     
    Lind stared at her. “You’re a maddening, maddening woman, you know that?”
     
    For the first time that evening, Eve smiled. “Honey, you have no idea.”
     
     
     

CHAPTER FIVE
     
    Eve slept fitfully that night. She kept tossing and turning, and whatever sleep came