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He was a small man, and Logan lifted him, squeezing as he brought him to eye level. The man gurgled and squirmed, but after a moment went lax. The man's face was a reddish purple when he at last gave up and went out.
    Logan grunted in agony and exertion as he dropped the Arab to the floor. He let himself stumble back into the wall and rested for only a moment before he lifted his gaze to Mara.
    "Nice to see you, honey," he rasped.
    She gave him a killing look and came forward, tears leaking down her cheeks. She tossed aside a brick he hadn't noticed she'd been holding and slammed her fists into his chest.
    Logan grabbed the wall for balance, his head swirling and vision going in and out. He winced, tenderly touching his side where Taj had touched the battery cables and grit his teeth to silence his groan. Everything hurt.
    But he had felt pain before.
    No pain, no gain.
    "What have you done?" Mara cried "Why in the hell have I been kidnapped from my home and brought here?" Her chest racked with sobs, and Logan reached out to take her in his arms.
    The bittersweet of holding her once again made up for all the pain he had endured—and possibly for what he was about to put her through.
    Mara pushed him back with condemning fire in her eyes. "Why?"
    Logan let out a hard sigh, his stare falling to the floor where she'd dropped the brick. What she may have thought to do with it startled him a moment. Unprepared to answer her, Logan looked around them at the unconscious, but not dead, tangle of bodies littering the small room. "That's a long story for later. Come, we have to get out of here," he said taking her hand.
    Mara jerked back. "I'm not going anywhere with you ."
    Logan stilled and frowned at her. "Do you even know where you are?" At her sudden look of uncertainty, he realized she probably didn’t. She had probably been just as drugged as him and thought she was still in the US. He snorted at that. "You are nowhere safe, trust me." He took her by the arm and turned them toward the door.
    "Well, where are we?" she asked on a whisper, wiping the tears from her face as Logan leaned toward the door to listen.
    He pulled back at her question and looked over his shoulder at her. He hadn’t seen her in five years, but she was still the same Mara he remembered. Girl-next-door knockout sexy, two-fisted, and—he briefly glanced around her side at the brick again—too bellicose for her own good.
    A little five-foot-one woman had no business raising a brick to one of Conyers's monsters. His stare glided to the bluish bruise on her cheek and the cut on her lip. There was little guessing as to why she had gotten those.
    A savage desire to rip out Raven's throat stirred in his chest.
    He had to get out them of here though, and there was not a second to waste. Conyers and his henchmen would be waking up soon, and Logan was reluctant to shoot them for the noise it would make. If they were indeed in Sha Amud's villa, as he suspected, there would no doubt be other guards around.
    Logan crossed back over the room, pulled Taj's weapon from the man's leg holster, and pulled the slide back.
    "They took my M-9. That pisses me off," he said.
    Mara narrowed her eyes at him, incredulous. Her fearful gaze emboldened his resolve.
    Logan went back to her and cupped the side of her face. "Stay with me, and I will get us out of here."
    She started to shake her head, but switched to a nod.
    Logan smoothed his thumb over the bruise on her cheek, and his eyes fell to her mouth for the briefest moment before he moved to the door and paused there. He bent to listen for any movement on the other side. Something tapped wildly, but in no certain rhythm.
    Logan frowned, taking a breath and preparing himself, then pushed Mara to the side of the door, out of the way. He motioned for her to stay put and then silently turned the knob. Logan threw the door open, looking left toward the origin of the noise.
    The man guarding the room came to his feet in surprise. He