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pretty good. If you wanted to, you could keep me out.” He
expected her to shut down. Half of him wanted to be out of her head. It was
dangerous to have feelings for the fugitive he was responsible for. She
remained open to him. His body ached to be back inside her. He couldn’t
remember ever wanting anyone as much.
    Kane forced himself to focus. “What did you bribe the guard
with?”
    “Right now, I know what you’re thinking too. Maybe I’ve
discovered a new gift.”
    “Lena,” he warned. If she noticed the tenor of his voice or
the anger and lust building within him, she gave no indication.
    “I used the stones to tell him the future. He’ll be a very
rich man from what I told him,” she finally said.
    “So the guard knows about the stones too?”
    She shook her head. “I keep them concealed when I read
people’s futures. They just think I’m precognitive. Honestly, most people don’t
believe my predictions anyway.”
    “Then why do they ask?”
    She shrugged. Even that little movement of her shoulders and
the way it made her breasts bob up and down turned him on.
    “At home, we are kind of a tradition. People would come and
ask Grandma what they should do. She would tell them what she saw in their
future and they could make plans. I told the guard his wife had a surprise for
him one night. He came home to a big surprise party. The next day he asked me
about his son. He was very casual about it, but I could tell he was worried
about the boy. I saw the teen in real trouble with drugs. I told the guard
where he could find his son and recommended he go quickly. The next day, I
refused to help the guard with his questions about an investment. He continued
to pester me and I continued to refuse. Three days later, he said if I helped
him, he would help me.”
    “He let you out?” Kane asked.
    “He left the cell door ajar and I found a series of open
doors. Once I was out of the jail, I borrowed the guard’s car.”
    “Borrowed?”
    He told me what kind of car he drove and left the keys
inside. I read in the paper that the vehicle was recovered, so ‘borrowed’.”
    “Amazing.”
    “That I escaped?”
    “That you can predict the future to such a degree and you
would risk your life for the ability.”
    He felt the shift in her attitude. Sorrow and doubt. “You
don’t understand. The stones are my responsibility. I can no more relinquish
them than you could not turn me in.”
    He averted his eyes. “It’s my duty.”
    “We all have our jobs to do, Kane.”
    The arrival of room service ended the conversation. Kane
tipped the server and closed the door. “Why don’t we eat and go for a walk?”
    She nodded and tore a piece of pastry off before popping it
in her mouth. A shiny bit of sugar remained on her bottom lip. If those stones
were a magnet attracting the future, then Lena was a magnet attracting him. His
body shifted forward of its own accord and leaned over her in the chair.
    Her eyes were wide as she looked up at him, but she didn’t
back away. He licked the sweetness from her lip and she gasped. As soon as her
mouth opened, his tongue made the move inside. Lips and tongues battled and
caressed with equal passion. She sighed against his mouth.
    The sound and the feeling of her arousal had him hard and
ready. He lifted her from the chair. She rested her wrists on his shoulders,
keeping her sticky fingers away from his skin. Kane turned his head and sucked
a sweet digit into his mouth. The sugar slid over his tongue as he wiped the
pad clean. Her erotic reaction drummed in his mind.
    His eyes were riveted to hers as her finger slid from his
mouth. “God damn, Lena.”
    She widened her eyes. “Do you want me to close off my
thoughts? I can block you.”
    “No!” He said it with much more force than he’d intended.
Her baser emotions called to him as if they were an addiction he couldn’t
shake.
    He walked to the wall. His duffle was next to them on the
couch. Gripping her under the ass