Chapter One
“You’re coming with me. No arguments, Leia. Now.”
Leia Lightoller tore her dazed gaze from the unconscious mugger sprawled at her feet in the dark alley, to stare in shock at the muscular stranger with the low, gravelly voice who towered over her.
Only seconds earlier, the would-be thief crumpled at her feet had held a knife to her throat in the dim alley as he’d tried to snatch the purse off her shoulder. Leia had stood frozen in surprised fear as the large man at her side suddenly appeared from the misty darkness and launched himself at the thug with the blade in a fierce, brief skirmish.
Now her smelly attacker emitted a low groan from his fetal position on the wet asphalt.
Such a little guy, really. He had seemed a lot bigger a few moments ago. His blade at her neck ha
