Gabe could not believe he’d uttered those words to anyone, let alone Amelia Crockett. She had gone over his head like a tattling kindergartner when she’d been unimpressed with his actions in the past. How much of a disaster would his reputation be once she wheedled this whole story out of him? And she would. And yet . . . His pulse slowed and his immediate panic dissipated. This was the woman who’d just counseled one of his men to lie if he had to—the Amelia Crockett he didn’t yet have figured out. Somewhere in the midst of their mutual admissions to one another he’d taken her hand, and she hadn’t pulled it away. Out in the distance stood some of the most amazing creatures he’d ever seen. The combination of all that had pulled a confession out of him as easily as a dose of sodium pentothal. Or a unicorn’s spell. Damn. He tried to free his hand, but she gripped it in both of hers with sudden, surprising tenacity. “Tell me,” she said. “It’s okay. The story will never leave this spot.
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