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She tried to tel hiht in her throat She wanted to tel hiiven her, but al that ca sound of unsated lust

"I’l, uh, be back in a sec," he said and headed toward the men’s room

Lana flopped onto her back and looked up at the steel beahts overhead It was better this way No ties between thes weren’t worth a night of pleasure, and watching Caleb walk aith her heart was one of them And there was no doubt that he could walk aith her heart No matter whom he’d pretended to be in the past, she saw hi Boy Scout’s pledge ful of things that Oran had never been He was the kind of man a woman wanted to keep, and that was the problem His days with her were numbered She didn’t kno many, but eventualy, Monroe would find some better use of Caleb’s time and talents, and when that happened, Caleb would leave

The world needed its few reetting tangled up in herto offer hi woken by her screams

He deserved more than that

"Did you do as I asked?" said the metalic voice on the other end of the phone

Denny felt himself start to sweat--a cold, sour sweat that made his stouy watching her place"

"Onehis ability

So hi particularly special about hiuy was no aain tonight"

"Don’t bother She’s got a guard dog now, and there’s no way you’l get in while she’s sleeping"

"What do you want ned on the other end of the phone long enough toto like whatever his boss was going to have to say He never did

Denny had puled al the blinds shut, hoping that the nagging sense of being watched would go away It hadn’t He stil felt the silent gaze of his boss heavy on the back of his neck

"I want you to obtain a set of blueprints for the First Light youth center The file nu with the location of the file in a letter in your mailbox"

"What do you want those for?" he asked before he could stop hiht His ere slow, and noas going to cost hi, but it didn’t cohty boy" The words were alainst one another in the robot’s voice

"Sorry"

"That’s a good boy Now get so on your kitchen table by "

"Where do you want et the this guy co off about hi that was s

"You won’t even knoas there You never have"

The phone went dead, and Denny started shaking, and not from the booze His boss had been here before and he hadn’t even known it? What else didn’t he know?

Before the thought could scare hi his boss’s eyes on the back of his neck the whole ti the hot water run over her tired h the physical weariness, she felt a new kind of strength flowing through her Despite the e episode on the mat, Lana realized that she’d learnedfrom Caleb than she had in weeks worth of self-defense classes in colege There was soht her that gave her a thin strand of confidence to grab on to It made her feel powerful, safer soht didn’t ether If she could keep her libido in check, she ht back so

The notion iddy with hope

Now if she could only convince Caleb to continue the lessons without the two of theht

Caleb had frozen up and stayed frozen from the moment he’d walked out of the ret, and she knew that her lessons were over

Lana puled on her paja shorts set that was cool and coaze slid up and down her body, ainst her shirt Lana licked her lips and tried not to read anything into his stare

"Those hurt?" he asked, nodding toward her legs

Lana looked down the surgical scars and saw a few shadowy patches of skin where their mock combat had bruised her She wasn’t sure which he’d referred to, but the ansas the same "No"

"Good You sore?"

She would be tomorrow, but for now, she was just pleasantly tired "No"

He ran a wide hand over his face and puled in a deep breath "I’ave away his displeasure with the notion

Lana felt a zing of exciteh her but tried to hide it "You weren’t invited"