“All right,” she said at last. “But you have to wait here while I turn it off.”
“Of course,” he said politely. “I wouldn’t think of following you to the place where you have it hidden.”
He leaned against the counter, as if to indicate that he planned to stay in this spot, and Deirdre took that as a sign to leave. She gave him a halfhearted nod, then went down the hallway to her bedroom, where she pushed aside her backpack and got the device out of her laptop case. As she slid her finger over the touchscreen to power down the little gadget, she hoped she wasn’t making the worst mistake of her life.
Amaal felt it the second she turned off the device, strength and energy flowing into all his limbs, his entire body suffused with a sense of well-being. Up until that very moment, he wasn’t qu
