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growing up on the reservation and I’m sure all of this is
frightening. I think you’re being a bit hard on yourself.”
    “See what I mean? You know nothing. I didn’t grow up on the
Shoshone Reservation. I grew up in Los Angeles. Adianca came when I was
eighteen and brought me to Nevada. She saved me from myself.”
     

Chapter Two
     
    Everything she said was in English and yet he didn’t
understand. “LA? Wow, that’s surprising, but I don’t know what you mean by
Adianca saving you from yourself and what does any of that have to do with last
summer and why you were so upset earlier?”
    She physically shook herself and he couldn’t read her.
“Nothing.”
    He’d promised not to pry so he’d have to allow her to tell
the story her own way. The temptation to poke around in her pretty head was
strong. He just wished he wasn’t so distracted by all that long black hair,
smooth skin and curves that would not stop. At least when he arrived, she was
bundled up for the cold weather. Now she was in a tank top and sweatpants and
it was more than he could stand.
    Maybe he should have left her in her bed, left her to suffer
alone, but he couldn’t. Somehow, though he didn’t know how, he was responsible
for the agony she was experiencing and that would not do. He would try to
gentle her into confiding in him.
    “Maybe we should keep it simple, Rain. You said that when
you heal you manipulate the body’s cells to work faster.”
    “That’s right.” She looked as if she was surprised he’d been
listening.
    “How do you do that?”
    “I experience the event that caused the injury and I use it
to turn the negative energy around.”
    Jess was pretty sure his heart had just stopped beating. She
could not possibly mean what she just said. “You experience the pain?”
    Her dark gaze was so intense he couldn’t have looked away if
he’d wanted to. “The pain, fear, whatever the patient went through.”
    It was too much to accept. She’d saved his life and healed
him in Las Vegas, but he didn’t dare ask. Not yet. The idea was far too terrible.
“So earlier when you healed my arm, you actually made yourself feel the pain of
being shot?”
    “I felt the hot lead tearing skin, the rush of adrenaline
and the instant of fear before you became angry with me.”
    He had to get up and move away from her. If he could have
left the cabin he would have, but the howling wind told him the storm was far
from over. His gut was in knots. “What about in Las Vegas?”
    She lowered her eyes and stared at something only she could
see in the wood floors.
    As soon as he realized that she wasn’t going to answer he
leaped across the room, grabbed her by the shoulders and hauled her off the
couch. “Tell me.”
    Those dark eyes met his and a sad smile touched her lips.
“You don’t really want to know this, Jess. If you could leave me here and never
see me again, you would do it. Why ask a question you don’t want the answer
to?”
    His hands were shaking. She could likely feel it, but he
didn’t care. “I took this assignment because I owe you for saving me. I didn’t
want you to go through what is going to be a kind of hell on your own. I
thought I owed you that much. If what you say is true, there is no way to repay
the debt, and I always repay my debts.”
    “Let this go. There is no debt.”
    “Tell me about Las Vegas.” He had pulled her closer. He
hadn’t meant to, but his body was touching hers and her lips were too close to
his. As her chest rose and fell, her tits rubbed against his chest.
    “Maybe you should let me go, Jess.”
    He did and took a step back. What was it about her that
mesmerized him? He didn’t know but he didn’t like it. Once she was seated, he
sat on the edge of the wooden coffee table facing her. His heart raced as if he
were on his first assignment. Pull yourself together, McMean.
    Rain’s gaze drifted toward the fireplace. Jess watched the
flames dancing in those mysterious eyes.