Beyond the Edge by Susan Kearney

Author:Susan Kearney
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Category, General, Extreme, Fiction
ISBN: 9781426857539
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

FALLON SETTLED HER BILL and accepted the crystal and plans. Kane waited for a private moment then transferred them back to the hotel room. While Fallon used the bathroom, he placed the plans in a garbage can, lit a match and began to burn them.

Fallon rushed back into the living area, her eyes wide, her steps at a run. She tried to take the can with the burning papers from him. “What are you doing?”

“I always intended to destroy these items.” He held the can out of her reach and when the smoke detector was about to sound off, he used his specialized technology to prevent it.

She picked up the crystal and held it out to him. “I just paid a small fortune for this…thing. If we’re going to destroy it, I deserve to know everything.”

He had to admire her intelligence. She hadn’t tried to stop him after her first burst of horror. Not that she could have stopped him from doing what he aimed to but that knowledge wouldn’t have prevented most people from trying. Instead, she was facing the fact that his action might be a good one and was asking for an explanation.

“You might want to sit down.” The papers quickly finished burning and he stirred the ashes with a hanger, then washed them down the sink drain at the bar.

“You’re from the future, aren’t you?” she demanded, without taking a seat. Instead she fixed them both a drink of tomato juice, vodka and a celery stick and he noted that her hands weren’t even shaking.

He’d given her enough clues to guess the truth. Still, she had to be shocked. In his own time, only a few civilians had heard of time travel. Only those who served the government and needed to know ever learned about the technology.

“Yes. I’m from the future. I traveled in a time bubble and you were caught in it. The illness you experienced is on a cellular level. There are no permanent harmful effects, but you are trapped with me for the duration of my mission.”

“Which is?”

“Nigel James is also from the future. He stole technology and is trying to sell it here.”

She bit into her celery stick, chewed and swallowed. “I’m assuming he’s under the same constraints you are? He’ll eventually return to the future, also?”

Kane nodded. “But we couldn’t wait to catch him in our future. Allowing him to sell those items would disturb the time line. The consequences could be catastrophic.”

“How?”

“Without being too specific, suppose,” he took the crystal from her, opened the power source and disconnected the battery, “the wrong people got hold of this item? They could change history by planting a bomb in the Oval Office.”

“So I spent millions of dollars to—”

“Preserve the status quo.”

“The Agency could do a lot of good with that crystal.”

“Perhaps.” He tossed it into the air and caught it. Before she said more, he placed it on the floor, crushed it with his shoes, then ground every memory chip to dust before sweeping it into the trashcan.

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