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can’t let you! He swore he would make anyone suffer who tried to help me. I was his until he ended the relationship, No woman had had the audacity to end it first.”
    “Where did the attack take place?”
    “In my bedroom in my parents’ home. I was getting ready to go out. Vanessa and I were meeting a couple other women for dinner, then we were going clubbing. I don’t know how he got in. It’s a gated community. He had me on the bed, straddling me, one hand cuffing my hands above my head. In his other hand he had a switchblade he kept flicking open and closed as he raved about if he couldn’t have me, nobody else would want me when he was finished.”
    “Did he…did he — ”
    “Rape me? He didn’t get the chance. After he drew the tip of the blade down over my face, he used it to cut the straps on my dress, all the time leering and describing how he was going to enjoy my body. Vanessa arrived before he could carry out his threats. When she shouted up the stairs for me to hurry up, I screamed for her to call the police. That’s when he stabbed me and ran.”
    “Where were the servants?” Mac’s murderous expression was a black cloud, anger emanating from him in violent waves.
    “At the other end of the house. They couldn’t hear me. Vanessa called the ambulance.”
    “Where were your parents?”
    “Somewhere near Chamonix in the French Alps, opening a new resort. The doctor at the hospital contacted them. When Mother spoke with me, she let it be known I was interfering with the grand opening, which the French Ambassador was attending. Since I was able to talk with her, she judged I was in no danger. So they didn’t need to interrupt something important to fly home. Especially since they had to go from there to open a new hotel in Australia or New Zealand, or somewhere down there, immediately after. It would have thrown a huge glitch in their schedule.”
    Sage could see the anger in his eyes. She remembered when the first camp she attended was over and he thought the couple who flew in to get her were her parents. She had been happy to see them, although reserved. He had been concerned when he discovered they were only the pilot and her nanny.
    The tears started trickling from the corner of her eye across her temple to hide in her hair. She could see he wanted to hold her close, take away the mental anguish. To let her know someone loved her and would be there for her. But she knew she couldn’t accept that. Not from him. Not after the way he had rejected her.
    Taking a deep breath, she withdrew her hands from his. “You’d better finish dressing so you can have your supper. We can finish our discussion another time. I’d like to rest now.” She couldn’t look at him. The anger she had seen in his grim expression she concluded was at her for putting him in the position of having to take care of her, like a stray dog. She vowed that as soon as her leg allowed her to take two steps and remain upright, she would be gone. No longer a child, she would never be a burden to someone again. She was free, over twenty-one, and her own person. Her problems were just that, hers alone.
    She had to contact Vanessa and let her know she was okay, but not where she was. Would Marcos hurt her when he found out her part in assisting her escape? He knew Vanessa was her best friend. Would he be watching her? Somehow listening to her phone conversations? She would wait and call in the morning after Vanessa got to work.
     
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    Mac reluctantly stood and left when she asked him to. He stopped in the doorway to look back at her, frowning. She had suddenly tuned him out. Why? He thought about their conversation while he donned his shirt and buttoned it. Well, it was more an interrogation on his part. The police had probably asked the same questions and more. Didn’t she believe he would help? Protect her? He pulled on his boots and slowly made his way down the stairs to the kitchen.
    Two Feathers and Little