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He shook his head. “Take it from me.”
“I’m trying.”
“No, I mean, try to take it.”
Jesska frowned. “I don’t get it... oh, wait. Without picking it up, you mean?”
“Yes.”
She giggled. “How?”
“Imagine where you want the card to go and then use your hand to guide it.”
“That easy?”
“That easy,” he confirmed.
Jesska stared at the card in Kaspar’s hand and waved her hand. It went skittering to the floor. Kaspar laughed and raised it back to his hand. Jesska tried again and again, only managing to get it out of his hand.
Kaspar’s phone buzzed and he pulled it from his pocket. “We’ll work on it more,” he promised, handing her the card and answering the call. “Austri. Já. We’ll be right down.”
Jesska grabbed her purse. “Is Austri coming with me?”
“Yes.”
“But I thought Kade has his security, as do the Gunnachs... and Ari and—”
“You made your point,” Kaspar said, cutting off her diatribe. “But I don’t know anyone other than Ari’s men, so you will have Austri for the day.”
“But what will you do without him? Jóvin would be fine.” Kaspar frowned, and Jesska raised an eyebrow. “You can’t seriously still be mad at him.”
“I’m not discussing this with you, Jesska.”
She crossed her arms. “You’re punishing him for making sure I was safe. Does that sound right to you?”
“He was supposed to stop you from leaving.”
“And he tried!” she snapped. “Outside of chaining me to the towel rail in the bathroom, he didn’t really have a choice.”
“Well, then he should have chained you.”
“If he’d really done anything remotely close to that, you would have had his head... or stuck him in some dungeon somewhere!”
“I don’t have a dungeon.”
“You’re being an ass.” She threw her hands in the air.
“I’m an ass because I want you protected?”
“No, you’re an ass because you refuse to see that even you wouldn’t have been able to stop me from leaving that fucking hotel room, and Jóvin made a judgment call—the same one you would have made, I might add—and he protected me from beginning to end. Case in point, I’m standing in front of you right now, and without a scratch on me.”
Kaspar dragged his hands down his face.
“Let’s go. We obviously need a little time away from each other.”
Jesska stalked out of the hotel and to the elevator without waiting for Kaspar.
Kaspar reached for his phone, jostling Jesska, who had woven herself around him like ivy. He’d adjusted the security detail and sent Jóvin with her during their shopping excursion, which had earned him “brownie points,” but had not gotten him entirely off the hook. Kaspar had to admit that she’d made a valid point and, once he wrapped his mind around said point, he was quick to tell her that she had been right, but he wouldn’t go so far as to apologize to Jóvin. Jesska had responded by running his credit card up by almost ten-thousand dollars, somewhat disappointed that he hadn’t reacted to the paltry amount.
