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Yes, this was what it would be like with Knox. Him, showing up in full force.

Into her disasters.

His eyes were glossy when he let her go. “What happened?”

“I don’t know. We were sitting by the fire, and suddenly this man came up and just grabbed Glo. Tried to drag her away.”

Knox stared at her, clearly trying to take all this in. “AmangrabbedGlo?”

“Yeah. Maybe she was the closest, I don’t know, but—I poked him.”

“You…poked him.”

“Then I hit him with a log.”

His hands cupped her face and he leaned his forehead against hers, just breathing.

“Is he still out here?” A woman’s voice, and Knox released her. She turned to Ruby Jane.

“I think so. I don’t know.”

“Let’s get in the house.” Knox took her hand and practically ran with her after Ruby Jane. Tate was long ahead.

“What did he look like?” Knox said as they followed Ruby Jane’s light across the hill.

“He had gauged ears. An eyebrow bar. Maybe a dark tattoo?”

Knox’s hand tightened in hers. “Could it have been a port-wine stain instead of a tattoo?”

“I don’t know. Maybe.”

Wyatt and Reuben stood by the fire. Reuben held a gun in his hand.

“Get inside, guys,” Knox said. “But yeah, keep that out, Reuben. There’s someone on our property, and he’s armed too.”

He pulled Kelsey into the back, waited for the others, then shut the door.

“Stay away from the windows,” Tate said from the kitchen. He’d set Glo on a chair and was kneeling in front of her. Kelsey went over to her. Glo looked a little light-headed.

“The bullet seems to have nicked her shoulder. I’m not sure if it’s broken or not, but she needs to get to a hospital.”

“It’s a two-hour drive to Helena,” Wyatt said.

“And a twenty-minute flight,” Gilly said. She looked at Reuben. “Let’s go.”

Gerri came over with a box of gauze bandages. “Let me tape her up. Tate will bring her down to the airstrip in a minute.”

Reuben and Gilly headed for the door.

“I’ll get our stuff,” Kelsey said and went upstairs. She didn’t even realize Knox was behind her until she entered her bedroom.

He closed the door behind her. “You’re not going with them.”

She rounded on him, and for a second, had nothing. “What—of course I am. Glo is my best friend—”

“And someone is out there, trying to hurt—maybe kill—you! You need to stay here, where I can take care of you.”

So much emotion in his eyes, and in that moment, crazily, she heard…shoot…her father.