ELISE HELD THE SEMI-precious gem between her thumb and first finger, examining the item. She thought of Noel and the confrontation they’d had in the kitchen earlier. She relived his kiss and his words telling her that if she called him he would come to her. She wondered if it was a better idea to avoid any further intimacy when the crystal suddenly grew warm and throbbed with a pure white light.
There was a soft knock on her door, it opened, and Noel appeared in her bedroom, looking big and tall and sexy. She glanced at the crystal against his bare chest then down at her own.
“I felt you calling me.” Noel looked from her stone and then his own. “Es verdad?”
“Yes." She watched as Noel’s uncertain gaze swept over her, the bed, and the entire room, looking as though he had never been in he
