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He'd lost his wife to a reaction to an antibiotic that caused her body to dump her sodium. Rachel was his whole world.

No time for describing clothes here!
A quick read.

The very seclusion she'd craved this past week was her enemy now. The closest road was nearly a day's hike away. First, stop the bleeding.
(Away much ?!)

"I've tried to stay away, but I can't do it any longer. Ever since you've left, all I think about is you. Instead of time making it better, it's getting worse. You can still be a bodyguard. You can do whatever you want to do. I don't care. I just know I want you in my life. I love you, Tess."
"But we were only together a week."
"A very intense week. We skipped the casual dating part of a relationship."

That was rather anticlimactic and rushed. Pages of descriptions of each drink of water at the cabin, coffee mentioned 25 times and then the whole mystery solved in 3-1/2 pages.

She needed to end the warm touch of his palm against her cheek, but she felt paralyzed by the mesmerizing expression in those gray depths. For a few seconds while he bent his head toward hers, she forgot she was his bodyguard. He made her feel special, as though she were the only woman in his life. The anticipation of his lips brushing against hers spurred her heartbeat. She swayed toward him.

"I was attacked in my home when I was sixteen. I think that's what really made me want to protect others. I couldn't defend myself. It took months to recover. That's when Uncle Jack insisted I come live with him and Patricia in New York. Then he started teaching me to defend myself."
"Where was your father when all this happened?"
She stiffened and pulled away from him. "Drunk."