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I couldn’t tell hirasp and picked love up off the floor I turned my back as I slipped it on and clu after a one-night stand, and I couldn’t face hiain But I felt his eyes onto

"Why won’t you tellbad?"

"I can’t tell you," I repeated dumbly

"Whatever it is, if it’s important, I need to know," he said "Was it the Coppers? A fire? I? Death?" He paused and, with a defiant tilt of his head, asked, "Or did you see so ofexasperated," he said, his voice ragged with feeling "I don’t want to force you to tell me, but I will, if I ," I said "You won’t"

"Tell me"

"No"

"Tell me!"

He spun me back around to face hi and er and excitement and desire were eloquent in his sharply cut features No one ever had power over hinificant Pinky A hu to happen to the caravan It’s my problem, not yours"

He put his hands on h the gloves and the thick brocade, like nets that couldn’t decide whether to repel or attract

"Your proble as you’re in this world," he said "Don’t you see? I brought you here I’m responsible for you You’re mine"

"Excuse me?" I barked "You don’t own htly, his hands as strong as iron wrapped in velvet

Jeff had calledHis, his, his My instinct was to run away fro different when he said, "You’re mine" But whatever those words meant in this world, whatever they ed away, but he only held tighter, and my heart wasn’t in it The vision had stolen my fire Part of me was tempted just to y and heat and inexplicable longing between us But underneath it, at the very core of me, was a fierce need for freedoet the constant worry about Nana, far away in another place, waiting for ive I had a life there, into rebuild This new, confusing vision of my future was just too much I closed my eyes

"I’m not yours I don’t even work for you yet My na tostep closer "You belong to hed and pulled his top hat fro once and twirled it up onto his head Then he looked at rasped both of loves, a whisper of cloth always between us

"Think what you will, love, but you knohat they say of glancers"

"I don’t," I said, looking down to avoid his burning gaze

"They can see everyone’s future but their own"

I closed h Touching him, I had seen ould happen to edfor hio When the knock came at the door, his hands dropped, and my eyes opened We stepped away from each other I crossed my arms over my chest and tried to composeit to another stack of scrap wood

"Coain

"I’h, twitchy voice "But you suh the door see leather aviator’s goggles that covered his head and neck His eyes were rendered huge, and he blinked fearfully and hiccupped like a screech owl on speed

"Thank you, Vil," Crion is ht"

Theleather jacket and licked the tip of the pen, saying, "And what’s to be painted on the side, sir?"

"Have it say, ‘Lady Letitia, Fortune-Teller,’" Crirandly "If that suits you, of course"

I snorted "I’m not much of a lady, and I don’t know if I can actually tell fortunes"