If someone from town found her like this—lying in his arms, his hands on her—Jake didn’t need to imagine how that story would get told. Folks didn’t leave room for innocence when a woman in a habit was involved. They filled in blanks with gossip and called it truth.
And the fear in her voice told him something else, too:
Whoever she was running from… might not be far behind.
Jake made a decision without saying it out loud.
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