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force that had Morganna flinching in surprise. His gaze sliced to her wide gray eyes, his jaw bunching with the effort not to put his arms around her, to hold her to him. To know she was safe.
    "Buy insurance, Merino," he growled as he turned from Morganna. "Good insurance. You don't want your family to be out too much when they have to bury you."
    Joe Merino's mobile lips kicked up in a cool grin as his brown eyes gleamed with wary amusement.
    "Come on, Clint; chill out, man. I had no idea she belonged to you." He flashed, Morganna a chastising look.
    "Oh God, does this sound like a trashy novel or what?" Morganna piped up, her voice filled with disgust.

    "I want to hear the explanations. I'm going to assume you're working on the date rape case, and pray I'm wrong, because if I'm not, there's going to be hell to pay once Reno finds out," Clint ordered tersely
    "Tattletale," she grumbled.
    He ignored her, merely staring back at Merino with narrowed eyes.
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    do?" he finally asked her.
    She pressed her lips tightly together.
    Hell no, they didn't.
    Joe sighed. "She's a DEA agent, Clint. One of the best rookies we have. I don't know where that attack came from tonight, or who's behind it, but this is Morganna's first case and she hasn't had time to draw that kind of notice yet."
    "It was probably a hit against him," Morganna said. "I keep telling him he's going to piss off the wrong person."
    "You set her up as bait," Clint said, continuing to ignore her. Right now, it was his safest bet.
    He couldn't believe it. Morganna working with the DEA? That wasn't possible. She couldn't pull something like that off without Reno's knowledge. And sure to God, Reno would have told him.
    She couldn't be doing this. She was too soft, too fragile. A man protected women like her; he didn't allow them to be drawn into the middle of a nightmare.
    "We're investigating the hit," Merino sighed as he pushed his hands into his slacks pockets and stared back at Clint consideringly. "I'm here out of consideration to you. Because I respect you. But Morganna is an agent with this force, Clint. I can't have you jerking her out of the arena every chance you get."
    Joe Merino was one tough son of a bitch, despite the designer clothes he wore. He had resigned his commission with the SEALs five years before, after his wife's death, and gone to work with; the DEA instead. He was snake-mean when dealing with criminals and not much nicer when dealing with friendlies.
    But he was a damned good agent, and Clint had once believed his judgment to be sound. Pulling Morganna in on this was not sound judgment. Because he should have known that even if Reno didn't kill him, Clint would. Agent or no agent, this was no place for Morganna.
    He turned to Morganna, barely restraining the agonizing fear for her as she stared back at him. It tightened every muscle in his body and left him struggling to pull enough oxygen into his lungs to breathe.
    She was deliberately risking her life. She was risking his sanity, his very survival, with this madness.
    "You didn't tell me? Did Raven know?" He was surprised at the hurt that clenched his chest at the thought.
    "Raven only knew that I was back in school until my actual graduation. Reno still doesn't know any differently," she finally revealed. "Come on, Clint, I didn't want to be jerked out before I even had a chance to graduate from the Law Enforcement Academy."
    "You didn't need to be there!" he exclaimed, aware of the horror in his voice. "For God's sake, Morganna. Merino is going to get you killed."
    She stared back at Clint in determination, defiant courage lighting her eyes. "I'm good at what I do."
    He turned to Merino. "And what made you think you could place her in this kind of danger?" he snarled.
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