But that wasn’t happening, not on his watch. He came around to the back porch of the cabin and lifted aside a broken section of the screen. Used his knife to slit it the rest of the way open. Stepped cautiously through.

The slight, silent figure that rose in front of him gave him two seconds of warning, and he ducked, but not soon enough.

Fire stung his eyes and he staggered backward, his skin burning. He grabbed his assailant’s wrist, realized with shock that it belonged to a petite woman, lost his balance and pulled her down with him.

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