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She'd either turn up or not, and
if she did he didn't want to freak her and appear out of the darkness. If not,
then he'd need to put his breaking and entering skills into play.
    His attributes as a burglar weren't tested as a few minutes
later a silver sports car pulled up alongside him. Cade straightened up and watched as the car door opened and Anna got out. She
slammed the door and walked across to stand within a few feet of him. Not too
close, he noticed in disgust. What the hell did she think he was going to do to
her?
    A light breeze caught the ends of her hair, and it fanned
around her like a cape of red silk. The sight reminded him of seeing it spread
over her pillow, as she writhed beneath him, chanting his name like an
incantation, her body flushed and waiting … and…
    Shit. Calm down, there's as
much likelihood of making love with her … or anything remotely like it as there
is of me joining the priesthood.
    " Linsey and Athol both know
that I know you're here, and that I'm here as well." She stood in front of
him, legs apart and her back straight, obviously with the intention of her
stance conveying strength and belligerence. "So, I've got to phone them
every half hour, or the police will arrive. I'm talking to you because I want
to, not because I've got to, because no one can make me, and I'm guessing
you'll bug me until I do, but once I have then you're to leave me alone, or
I'll be the one calling the police, and they're big on crushing stalkers up
here. Do you understand?" She gulped in air. It was no wonder, after such
a long sentence. Cade doubted she drew breath as she
said what she'd obviously been rehearsing all the way to her house. Only someone so attuned to read people as he was able to would have
noticed the trepidation she felt. It wasn't in Cade's mind to worry or scare her. Excite and arouse maybe, but not here and not now.
His mind processed her somewhat complicated sentence, and he nodded.
    "Say it," Anna demanded. He decided not to mention
he was the one who demanded in a relationship. This exchange of words could in
no way be described as such.
    "I understand. You're here with me because you want to
be." And if either of them believed it was what she wanted, there was a bridge
somewhere for someone to sell them. "Athol said to tell you it's the will
of the tribe."
    "No, you asshole." Her voice wavered and
strengthened. "The last place I want to be is with you. But I've decided
that you'd be a pain in the ass until we spoke, and Linsey is so excited you're going to demonstrate or tutor or whatever it is you do, I
thought I'd listen to you, and then you can go and do what you have to do, and
I can do what I have to. And as for Athol and his will of the tribe? Not in a
million years, so you can forget that, buster."
    He shook his head to relieve the ringing in his ears. "Fair enough. Do you always talk in such long and
convoluted sentences?"
    She flushed, and he saw her hands firm into fists. Cade tightened his muscles again, but she just gave him a
look of such contempt, he was hard pressed to hold back his grin. His
feisty-only-in-bed redhead had turned into one hell of a woman. He decided not
to ask her anything about Athol's cryptic statement.
    "No."
    Well, that was short enough. Cade stood back and watched Anna unlock the door. A scrabble of paws across the
wooden floor he glimpsed beyond the threshold had him stiffening. So it wasn't
a recording of a dog's bark she used to repel invaders, it was the real thing.   A big ball of black and white dog careened
out of the doorway, and with an excited bark, rolled on its back in front of
Anna. She giggled and bent to rub the dog's tummy, giving him an unexpected
peek of her thighs and a hint of firm buttock. He half thought he saw a flash
of red thong disappearing between her butt cheeks, but decided it was wishful
thinking. His Diana would never wear anything like that. It had been one of
their sticking points.
    But she's not your Diana