"Please don't!" she whispered as she pulled the blankets up even more, as if they would protect her from what he intended. Her green eyes filled with tears again as she looked at him.Jacob Tobias wasn't used to having a pretty woman look at him with absolute terror in her eyes, but that is exactly the way Kari Morgan was looking at him, and it stopped him in his tracks. "Sweetheart, I know I frightened you earlier, and I am sorry as can be about that. For the last time now, I have no intention of harming you. I am not a thief. I am not a rapist. I am a police officer, like my brother told you, and he is a doctor. You are seriously ill, and this close," he held his thumb and forefinger a scant inch apart, "to a stay in the hospital with an IV hooked up to you so you get liquids and meds to take that temperature down. You are new in town and you don't have anyone here to help you. I won't leave you to fend for yourself; Ma didn't raise me that way, and if you were my little sister, I would want someone to help you.
