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    hands were always restless. She skipped or danced across a room rather than walked. Sometimes she’d leap over the furniture—she’d even cleared the couch one day, and it was longer and wider than most.
    She was a puzzle he couldn’t quite figure out.
    Saber opened her eyes to look at him through the rising steam.
    Because of you. She went out with utterly rotten cads because she didn’t dare fall in love with Jesse.
    That was so lame—so stupid. She couldn’t have someone decent, so she went out with men knowing she couldn’t hurt them—ever. She would never hurt an innocent.
    She didn’t have time to censor her thoughts. Not even to herself had she ever admitted that she couldn’t look at him anymore without wanting him. She wanted to trace every line in his face, memorize the shape and texture of his mouth, slide her fingers through that wealth of beautiful hair that fell haphazardly in all directions. She couldn’t close her eyes and not have him in her mind. She smelled him in every room.
    When she inhaled, he was there, drawn so deeply into her lungs that she felt possessed by him.
    Afraid he might read too much on her face, she looked away from him, studying the tiled mural.“Who knows why I do anything I do, Jesse.”
    He didn’t have the ability to read minds. She had spoken telepathically to him. Every cell in his body went on alert. Her words were clear, absolutely clear in his mind. Because of you. She was capable of projecting her thoughts into his head. Not only had she been clear, she had done it easily, with no energy spills at all, no surge of power to give her away. Never once in ten months of living with him had she slipped up. Not one time. And that spoke of specialized training—not merely specialized; it took rigid discipline to be good enough to go undercover and never make a mistake. He wasn’t going to buy it that she just happened to find his home, find him, and be trained in telepathic communication. God. Jesus. He couldn’t bear it if she was undercover playing him for a fool.
    He sat in silence, stunned at the revelation, furious with himself for not seeing it coming. Maybe all along he’d suspected, but he hadn’t wanted to know. She was so beautiful. So right for him. Who sent her?
    Who put those shadows in her eyes? The wariness on her face?Because of you. What exactly did that mean?
    He kept his features expressionless while he studied the situation from every angle. If she’d been sent there to kill him, she would have done it already. If she was spying, she would have tried to get into his office and he would have known. He didn’t believe in coincidence, so just how much danger was he in?
    And how much should he tell the others? He’d kept everyone away from Saber, purely for selfish reasons, although maybe he’d known the truth all along.
    “What? No comment? You’ve gone awfully quiet, Jesse, and you always have some little lecture to pull out of your long list of them. I guess the truth is, I wanted to feel something for someone. He seemed like fun in the bar. Good looking. Somewhat intelligent.”
    He’d been a creep. She’d purposely gone out with a sleaze, just as she always did, because she didn’t want to hurt a really nice man. Wherever she was currently calling home, she knew she could never stay.
    She wanted to do all the normal things a woman would do when she pretended she was living life like everyone else, but she never wanted anyone hurt on her account. She’d already caused enough hurt for a lifetime.
    She sighed and punched her fist into the bubbles. “It was stupid. I won’t be doing it again.”

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    “It was stupid,” he agreed. “And no, you won’t be doing it again.”
    She glanced up at his face. It looked as if it were chiseled from stone. That was Jesse on the