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a demo of her oral skills—which he’d experienced firsthand— Khani popped the bean from her pods onto the plate before tossing them into her mouth. She’d only divested a handful of them when the waitress returned carrying two trays of nigiri and a pissy expression she directed at Khani.
    Street cleared his decimated basket of edamame out of the way. The waitress moved to set a tray in front of him.
    Khani scooted her basket over. “I’ll take that one.”
    The woman’s eyes narrowed. She looked from Khani to the tray and back.
    “Yep, right here.” Khani tapped the table.
    Kimi—according to the nametag on her chest—slammed the tray in front of her, and then hesitated with the other one. “I’ll be right back,” she said to Street.
    After the woman hustled away his shoulders shook with silent laughter. “How’d you know?”
    “Please. This is literally child’s play. I can’t even believe I’m putting up with it. The real question is did you know and would you have let me eat it?”
    “I had a feeling and no. If she tosses herself at every guy that walks through the door, there’s no telling what you could catch.”
    “I doubt she throws herself at every one. Just the…” She clamped her lips together.
    “Just the…what?”
    “Just the fat-headed ones.” She lobbed a soybean at his big head.
    He caught the damn thing in his mouth and twitched his brow like the smug SOB he was. She groaned. His gaze locked on a place over her shoulder, and then shifted to hers, signaling that the waitress headed their way. A few seconds later the young woman breezed past.
    Kimi stopped inches away from Street. She leaned forward, putting her tits in his face, and slid the tray with nine beautiful pieces of nigiri in front of him. Two cuts of fresh tuna laid over rice replaced the two strips of white fish that had occupied the tray. She slipped a piece of paper under one of its wooden feet. “Call me, if you want to have some fun.”
    The soybeans in Khani stomach fermented. She wouldn’t give the little cunt or her one-time lover the benefit of seeing the display steal her appetite. Her fingers gripped the sticky vinegar rice and shoved the large piece of yellowtail into her mouth. With the fresh fish and rice combo doing crazy things to her tongue it didn’t take long for her hunger to return. It also helped that Kimi was called away to deal with new Hillers in need of a table.
    “This is so good,” Street said two bites in.
    She bobbed her head and finished another piece. “How’d you know I come here? Please don’t tell me you’ve switched to stalker mode.”
    “Ask the right person the right questions and you can find out all kinds of information.” He grinned, and then popped a hunk into his mouth as though it were no bigger than a bean.
    “Law? No wait, Mags has a soft spot for you.”
    He shrugged and went palms up. “I can keep a secret.”
    That he could.
    Street wiped his mouth with the napkin, leaned back, and folded his arms over his middle. The view incited her jangled nerves into a frenzy. Her jacket suddenly made a good insulator for baking her alive in the cool restaurant.
    “Why’d you leave, Khani?”
    The questions doused the flames and left a damp chill in her bones. She wanted to tell him to stuff it, that she wasn’t his concern, but it would only prolong the inevitable. “I wanted to be closer to my brother.”
    “Since you’ve been here how many times have you seen him?”
    Wow, that hurt, because the answer was not once since she’d moved halfway around the world to be closer to her brother had she actually laid eyes on him. And now he was MIA. “None of your damn business.” She scrubbed her hands on the napkin from her lap.
    “I want to know why you left.”
    “Sure I had other reasons. People usually do when making a big change. I was tired of riding a desk.”
    “Tired of riding a desk or riding me?”
    Khani bit the sides of her cheeks to keep from speaking