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to his mouth, and blood welled from a gash in her scalp. Bruises were forming on the left side of her face as well, and it made him wonder what other injuries she had that he couldn’t see.
    She stared right back at him, her expression and the tilt of her chin full of defiance. “I can take care of myself.”
    Maybe, maybe not. And with a Mob assassin and his network targeting her, Brody didn’t like her chances going out alone. “You’re not going to be able to treat that slice properly by yourself.”
    “I was going to take care of it before I left.”
    He grasped her cold chin in his hand, stared into her eyes as he assessed her. Her pupils were evenly dilated but she’d taken one hell of a bump to the head. “You dizzy? Sick to your stomach?”
    She pushed his hand away, gave him an impatient look. “No.”
    “Fine, then let me stop the bleeding at least.”
    She held his stare for another long moment then gave in, folding her arms over those luscious breasts and angling her body so that he could see the cut better. Brody opened the mirrored-medicine cabinet door above the sink and took the medical kit from the glass shelf. He grabbed a facecloth and ran it under some warm water, wrung it out before turning back to her.
    “This is gonna sting,” he warned.
    “Fine, go for it,” she said in a resigned tone.
    Alrighty then.
    He carefully parted her hair to get a better look at the gash. It was over two inches long, and resting atop a big goose egg in her scalp. He dabbed at it as gently as he could to clean the dried blood away but more welled up and trickled into her hair. “I’m gonna put antibiotic cream on it then use some liquid suture to close it.”
    She didn’t answer so he got to work, pinching the edges of the wound together so he could squeeze the adhesive onto her skin. He held it there until it dried, then slowly released his grip. She hadn’t flinched or made a sound the entire time. “It’s holding for now, but you should definitely get this looked at and take it easy for a while.”
    She moved away from him immediately and reached for the doorknob, paused to steady herself. “Thanks.”
    Hell. If she left with that head injury, he was worried she’d wind up dead. He expelled a harsh breath. “What’s the chance this Mob enforcer or any of his friends followed you here?”
    “Less than five percent,” she answered without missing a beat.
    “For real. I need to know the truth on this.”
    “That is the truth. I switched vehicles twice after getting out of the lake and I’m sure no one followed me.”
    Yet she wasn’t so certain about that, since she’d tackled him to the floor a few minutes ago. “How did you get out of the lake, by the way?”
    “I swam.”
    “You—” Brody stopped and smothered a dry chuckle as he imagined the scene playing out in his head. The car careening over the bank and into the water, her escaping the sinking vehicle and swimming for shore, then stealing two different vehicles and finding her way here. All the while suffering from near hypothermia and a head injury. He was becoming less annoyed and more intrigued by the woman every minute.
    Trinity twisted the knob, jerked the door open.
    “I’m heading out of town to visit my family,” he said, hoping he wouldn’t regret this later. “Not far, just a couple hours away in the Shenandoah Valley. You could come with me.”
    She swiveled her head around, the motion stiff, and shot him an incredulous look. Just as quickly, her expression turned guarded. “Why would you offer that?”
    Because he was invested now and she was in trouble so he couldn’t walk away. “It’s pretty clear you need to get out of here for a while, and I have training. You’ll be safe if you’re with me. And you just said the chances are next to nothing that anyone followed you here, so my family won’t be at risk.”
    And, okay, he’d be straight up lying to himself if he didn’t admit he found her attractive and