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job to bring you back.”
    Her stomach churned at the memory of her escape. “I had no
choice. Oscar was going to kill me and I couldn’t let him get ahold of the
stones. They are my responsibility and I had already put them in enough danger
by marrying the wrong man. If I was dead, he’d find them.”
    Kane’s eyes narrowed. “Did you swallow these stones?”
    She smiled. He was worried she was going to drop dead, as if
she was a drug smuggler. “No. I sat on them, in a manner of speaking.”
    Understanding dawned on Kane and the heat in his eyes
increased tenfold. “And is that where they still reside?”
    She didn’t say anything.
    “What are they, Lena?”
    “How do I trust you?” she asked.
    One side of his mouth quirked up. “It’s a leap of faith,
sweetheart. It always is.”
    “I trusted Oscar and now he wants to kill me, and frankly, that’s
not the worst of his crimes against me.”
    His frown returned. “I can say you can trust me, Lena, but
ultimately you have to decide. At this point, all I can promise you is I will
keep your secrets and get you safely back to the Boston justice department.”
    “And the other?” She let her mind open up so he could feel
her desire.
    “That will be entirely up to you.” He leaned so his backside
was to the aisle, took her hand and placed it firmly on his straining fly. “I
think you know what I want.”
    Her throat tightened, and she had to swallow hard in order
to draw breath again. “At least we have one thing we can agree on, Kane.”
    He groaned and squeezed her hand over his cock.
    Through the denim, he felt enormous. She salivated at the
idea of sucking him deep into her throat.
    “Please stop,” he begged. “Your hand I can take, but the
things flying through that dirty mind of yours are going to have me
embarrassing myself right here in this fancy, first-class seat.
    She giggled and pulled her hand away. She tried to remember
the last time she had flirted with a man or giggled. It was too long ago to
recall.
    “Tell me about Oscar Thorn?” Kane asked.
    “What do you want to know?”
    “How did you meet?”
    She sighed. “He showed up in my hometown. I’m from a little
town in New Jersey. He was worldly and beautiful and he swept me off my feet.
He even charmed my grandmother into believing he loved me. As it turned out, he
was only after the stones. He took them as soon as we were married and all his
pretenses ended. Then, when he realized he couldn’t work them without me, he
kept me prisoner.”
    She realized she’d said more than she intended. He’d only
asked how they met and she’d told him an abbreviated version of the entire
story.
    “I’m sorry,” he said.
    She didn’t know if he was referring to her life with Oscar
or if he was sorry he’d gotten her to spill her guts so easily. It didn’t
matter. For whatever reason, she trusted this Kane Lakeland. Sexually, she knew
she had to have him, but it was more than that. She hoped she wasn’t just being
a fool.
    “The Stones of Adeline have been in my family for hundreds
of years. I was born with the mark, so I was named Adeline, and when my
grandmother felt I was ready, she passed the stones to me. In the hands of the
right user, they will tell the future. Or to be more specific, they will show
the user exactly what they most wish to know. For Oscar, it was always about
money or power.”
    “What kind of mark?”
    His questions always surprised her. She’d thought he’d ask
about how the stones could tell the future or what deals Oscar had made by
using the stones. Most people would want to know how the stones could benefit
them or just disbelieve the entire thing. Not Kane. He wanted to know about her
birthmark. “It’s just a small birthmark.”
    “Where is it?”
    His eyes bore into her. God, why did he have to be so
beautiful? She looked around him to the people sitting across the aisle. They
were both asleep. She checked the flight attendants. One read a magazine,