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She even got
along with Clarissa in their love of fashion.
    “Cut it out, little brother.” Ray glanced around to see
smiles of passerby. “We’re on an Atlanta street corner here. All four of us are
going to get hauled in for indecency.”
    “Not hardly,” Clarissa muttered. “You’ve never been indecent
in your long life, Ray Cinder.”
    “Not since I met you,” he replied sardonically.
    They’d met exactly fourteen years ago. Clarissa had answered
a call out to the local para-talent families for a personal assistant. The
interview had lasted five minutes before he knew she had the job. He’d soon
learned she was fifty-five and recently divorced from a non-talent. Since that
day, he hadn’t had a chance to be indecent with anyone because no other woman
had caught his eye and no other woman had stirred the para-talent sleeping like
a banked fire beneath his skin.
    He stopped short in the middle of the sidewalk. After
fourteen years of celibacy, he really was a prude. Truly, it was a wonder he
wasn’t more uptight. He missed sex.
    Adjusting his tie, he climbed into the back of the limo.
Clarissa joined him and softly shut the door.
    “Everyone else can catch the next ride.” She grinned at him.
“Doesn’t it feel good? To see our friends and family so happy?”
    Leaning back, he returned the smile and relaxed as the
driver pulled away from the curb. “It does. I wasn’t sure I’d ever see the day
Griffin really did it. And Sean and Daisy. I can’t believe it was right under
our noses this whole time.”
    She cut a sideways glance at him and opened her luscious
lips. But she shut them before going further down that path. She’d been under
his nose for years, and damn but he’d like her under his body too.
    “You know I’d been married before, right?” Clarissa stared
out the window and his gaze tracked down her body. She wore red. The dress
clung to her and accented her delicious body as much as her usual classy,
understated-but-upbeat demeanor.
    Her words sank in and he frowned even while staring at her
cleavage and wanting to run a finger just inside the V of the neckline. He’d
rub over a nipple and she’d moan.
    The back windows fogged and she glanced over at him with a
lifted brow.
    “I know.” He sat back and concentrated on the road before
them. Better to watch where they were going than get in deeper.
    “The reception will be a blur to them.” She laughed and
shook her head. “The coming days will be one happy discovery after another.”
    Ray shifted in his seat. He’d never been close to proposing
to a woman. None had stirred his power in a way that intrigued him enough to
stay for the long haul. “You gave it a try, with a non-talent. Did he find
out?”
    “You’ve never asked that before. All these years of doing
nearly everything together, working, eating, even living together, you’ve never
asked about him.”
    “I thought it might be too painful a subject.” He couldn’t
admit that he didn’t want to know. Thinking of a man being with her, sharing a
life, being her husband, he couldn’t stop wishing. It made him feel sick
inside.
    “Not painful. It was for the best. It’s only painful when I
think I might never find the man who would be my partner in every way
possible.” She gave him a soft smile. “We’re partners in a way, you know. We
work together seamlessly. Remember the time we went to that school because a
boy had been levitating the furniture? You talked the principal into believing
the kid had rigged some great contraption of fishwire and pulleys while I managed
to calm his mother. She finally agreed to send him to one of our specialists.”
    “We do good work together.”
    “We could do more together.”
    “It’s too risky.” He crossed his legs to hide his sudden
erection at the thought of honeymooning with Clarissa.
    “After all this time, can’t you admit that our powers would
be even, if we joined as para-talent partners?”
    “It’d be like