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Her littered She shook her head; her hair fell around her face, obscuring it

“Nothing,” she whispered—but she was a lousy liar

Of course it was so His coldness? Her confusion? Whatever it was, she eeping Soundlessly, but weeping just the same

Don’t be a fool, Blackwolf, Jesse told hi

He wanted to He started to But halfway to the door, she said “Jesse?” and he went back, swung her into his arms and kissed her For comfort, he told himself, that was all…

But when she rose on her toes, wound her arms around his neck and kissed hi on his mind

CHAPTER FIVE

SHE’D thought he was going to walk away

That hat she wanted If he left her alone, ure out what had happened to her She couldn’t do that with Jesse Blackwolf’s dark eyes watching her, judging her, trying to figure out what kind of ga

But when he really had started to leave, a terrible loneliness had threatened to s her up Jesse, she’d said, without knowing she was going to say it…and when he came back and took her in his arms, she’d realized that loneliness wasn’t the reason she’d called him back

He was the reason

She barely knew this man…and yet, in a way that made no sense at all, she felt as if she’d known him forever

She sighed with pleasure when his ar, his heartbeat steady beneath her ear Of everything that had happened to her in the past endless hours, this, only this, was real

Jesse’s eainst her

“Jesse,” she said again, and raised her face to his, willing his lips to take hers To chase away the internal darkness that threatened to consume her

She wasn’t a thief, she wasn’t even a trespasser, because there weren’t any No Trespassing signs around the endless acres of Jesse’s land

Not on June 21, 2010

Except—except Jesse said it wasn’t 2010 It was 1975, he’d said, and she’d either stepped through the looking glass like Alice…

Or she’d lost herinto a darkness as deep as the canyon