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made sure they’d gotten rid of Rikard, now they had to worry about the detective?  What if she’d led him right there?
    “Relax, he didn’t follow me here, I was careful,” she said with a wry twist of the lips, reading his mind.  “As near as I can tell he gave up after lunch.  But he started to talk about possession.” 
    “What about it?”  His frown didn’t lessen at all.
    “I’m not sure.  I was trying not to get into it with him, not grill him for more information.  Still, it sounds like he’s putting two and two together and coming up with five.  It’s a cinch his bosses are already tired of hearing him talk about it, he was ordered off the case.  I just thought you should know about it.”
    “Thanks for telling me.”  Ethan offered her a tight smile, bringing her hand up to his lips for a kiss.  “Lucas should be fairly hobbled as far as his investigation goes.  He can’t go through usual channels or he’ll risk getting in trouble.  Chances are he was only fishing today and he’ll move on to something else when he keeps running into dead ends.”
    Cady wasn’t so fast to dismiss it.  “I’m worried you’re his new hobby.  Like trying to prove the Loch Ness monster exists or something.”
    “Let him poke around all he wants, he won’t find anything.  The Company knows how to bury its tracks.  And if he does uncover anything real, they’ll bury him too.” 
    “Please tell me you don’t mean that literally.”
    He really had to watch what he said around her, the last thing he wanted to do was upset her.  Besides, since Cady was turning out to be more of a target for his crazy world than he’d thought, he started to get a new idea.  “Listen, I’m glad you came over.  There’s something I wanted to show you.”
    “Great, whip it out,” she said with a cheesy grin.
    “Huh?”  It took him half a second to see where she was going with that, his mind was already three steps down a different path.  “No, that’s not what I meant.  I’ve been thinking, how do you feel about trying something new?”
    “Well… I thought we might do things the regular way our first time, but I’m open.”
    Ethan laughed, pretty sure she was teasing, until her teeth caught at her lip again and she tilted her head speculatively.  He swallowed, trying to chase away all manner of erotic images that leapt to mind at what might be running through her head. 
    “No, I meant, something really new.”
    “I don’t know, I grew up in San Francisco, there’s not much I haven’t seen before.” 
    Ethan smiled over the skeptical tilt of her brows.  “I can guarantee, this is something new.”
     
     

Chapter Five
     
    The lure of something new was strong enough to drag Cady’s mind out the gutter and touch her natural curiosity.  And honestly at that point, she didn’t care if they had sex right that moment or not, she just wanted to spend time with him, be near him and not have to pretend they were total strangers.
    “Alright then, shoot.  What do you want to show me?” 
    “I was thinking of showing you some sigils.  You said you wanted to learn more about them, right?”
    “The black marks you made all over the walls in the safe house?”  She had to admit, they were pretty handy at the time, if only he’d remembered to mark the bathroom as well. 
    “That’s right.  I thought we’d start with me showing you how to draw a few and seeing if you have any kind of aptitude for working the spells.”
    Even though she had asked him to teach her more about them, it didn’t sound appealing at that particular time and place.  “That sounds a lot like work.  Are you sure you wouldn’t rather do something more fun?  We could watch a movie.”  That might lead to snuggling, which suited her fine.
    His head canted to one side in confusion.  “I thought you’d get into this.  You seemed interested before.”
    “I am, but… I just got off work.”  Her lips pushed into