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Holding a plastic bucket and wearing a pink-and-blue bathing suit, Rae swept them the kind of knowing glance Professor McGonagall would give a Hogwarts student. She stomped down the stairs.

Kellen cupped Max’s jaw in her hand. “We’ll take up this matter tonight. In the meantime… I’d better put on my own bathing suit.” She sauntered toward their bedroom, and before she entered, she turned back toward Max.

He stood, rooted to the spot.

It was gratifying to wonder which of them was the hungriest.

She whispered, “Tonight.”

10

Kellen wore her modest one-piece bathing suit and an ankle-length, long-sleeved dress as a cover-up, and as they walked across the green lawn toward the cliffs, she could feel Max scrutinizing her. “Stop it,” she said out of the corner of her mouth.

“I can’t help it. That bathing suit fits you like—”

“You can’t see my bathing suit.”

“I know what it looks like.”

“It’s new. You’ve never seen this bathing suit.”

“Describe it to me.”

Kellen glanced at Rae and Luna, running ahead and shrieking. “Imagine I’m wearing a suit from 1900, with a black knee-length skirt, a black ruffly shirt and long white underwear down to my ankles.”

“Sexy.” His voice contained a low, prowling growl.

“How could that be sexy?”

“Because you’re naked underneath.”

He was incorrigible. “I’ll tell you a secret. I’m always naked beneath my clothes.” She guessed he wasn’t the only one who was incorrigible.

“I know.” He sighed loudly. “I never forget it.”

If not for Mara, Kellen would be thoroughly enjoying this retreat.

I’ll take everything from her, the way she took everything from me. I’ll make her sorry she betrayed me.

Max put his arm around Kellen and stopped. “What’s wrong?”

“Just thinking.”

“If it’s going to put that look on your face—stop.” He leaned closer and said softly, “You know what Diana said. She’s closing in on Mara, and when she does, she’ll call in Interpol and that will be the end of our wicked villain.”

“We’ll be free to go home.”

“Or stay, if we want.” Max hadn’t changed the way he stood, yet Kellen felt that sweet, enveloping heat of sexual desire.

“We need to dunk you into the icy waters of the Pacific Ocean,” she told him.

“What?” He pretended innocence.

“Come on!” Rae ran back toward them. “Hurry up! We’ve got to go to the beach.”

“It’s been there for a billion years. It won’t go away,” he assured her.

“Number one hundred and three on the endless list of things parents say to annoy their children,” Kellen said.

“No kidding!” In one of those lightning switches, Rae suddenly sounded mature and exasperated.