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dimmed, and then went black. Jodie placed the clipboard on the counter. Still the Voice hummed inside her, repeating the information like subliminal Muzak.
    Luc rose. “Done?”
    She nodded.
    “Ready to go?”
    “Sort of.” Her gaze dropped to the ugly ochre carpet. “Except I don’t know how to get there.”
    “Relax,” he said. “That much I’m supposed to show you.”
    “Can I keep my clothes on this time?” The words flew from her mouth before she could think twice.
    Now , his gaze dropped. “Umm…yeah. Sorry about that.”
    Good. At least the guy had some sense of decency —sporadic, but evident, nonetheless. She didn’t think she could face eternity, or however long her new employment would last, catching souls with a guy who had none. She waved a hand, partly to dismiss him, but also to fan the heat suddenly bursting in her cheeks. “Skip the apology and promise me you won’t do that again.”
    “I didn’t do it the first time. I was trying to picture you in the prime of life . How was I supposed to know the image that would come to mind was you, naked in bed after mind-blowing sex?”
    Her heart plummeted to her feet. “Oh my God! You saw that much?”
    His head shot up, eyes flashing and hands upheld in surrender. “Hey! Don’t blame me. It’s not my fault your life was so miserable your happiest moment was post-coital.”
    No way would she admit she’d never experienced anything close to the bliss he’d envisioned with his Vulcan mind-meld shenanigans. Instead, she set her fisted hands against her hips. “That’s an awfully big word for a Neanderthal like you.”
    Eyes narrowing to apostrophes, he slouched until his knuckles skimmed his shins. “Oh, forgive me, lady,” he said, his voice thick, stumbling, and heavily accented. “Please to teach me manners so I don’t cross you again.” He hobbled toward her in the same hunchback posture. “I shall kiss the hem of your gown to show my obeisance.”
    For every step he thumped closer, she danced back two. The anger in his expression sparked radioactive waves as his intensity honed in on her. Finally her back slapped the wall, and she shot up an arm to brace for the coming explosion.
    Instead, rich, throaty chuckles bounced off her eardrums.
    Peeking through the crook of her arm, she watched him straighten to his normal stance. The façade of amusement slipped over his features again as easily as a harlequin’s mask.
    “ Skittish, aren’t you?” He turned back to the counter where the clipboard sat, dark and graveyard silent. “Relax. Even if you had any inclination toward sex with a Neanderthal like me, I’m not sure it would be possible in our current forms. We’re energy, not human, remember?”
    “Could we get off —” Whoops! Very poor way to phrase that! And judging by his quick reversal, eyebrows arched, he’d caught her Freudian slip. Time for some serious backpedaling.
    She spoke again, this time each word carefully chosen and succinct. “Could we veer off the topic of my sex life and return to Kristin Esterby’s dilemma, please?”
    H is broad grin ignited flames in her cheeks that licked through her bloodstream. “Sure. But a few ground rules before we leave here.”
    Suspicion s napped her to full alert. “And they are?”
    “ First.” He held up one finger. “You do what I tell you. No argument. Deal?”
    Simple enough. So far, so good. “Deal.”
    “Second .” Two fingers now hovered near her face. “I do all the talking. You just watch and learn.”
    Much as his arrogance irked, e agerness to return to Earth had her nodding like a puppy waiting for a ball to be thrown. “I can do that.”
    “Lastly, put aside the animosity you have against me or my gender. Okay?”
    The eagerness evaporated, and h ackles prickled her nape. “Who said I had any animosity?”
    “ No one.” He folded his arms over his chest, shot his weight to one hip, a cowboy sizing up the new gunslinger in town. “But if you