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really bad idea,” she said in a dark tone.
    But Jenna was laughing. “Maybe and maybe not. So let’s go over what you are going to do.”
    That was when Tania understood she was getting a camera.
    A smile broke free, relieved laughter rippling throughout the room. “Oh my God! You should have said something in the beginning.” She laughed and laughed.
    When she could stop the giggles, only the odd hiccupping laugh still escaping, she realized Jenna had a wry smile on her face. Kane wore a thundercloud.
    “I’m glad this isn’t quite as impossible as you’d first been afraid it was,” Jenna said gently.
    And that, of course, had been the crux of the issue. Settling down, Tania relaxed, realizing she’d let her fears completely override rational thought here.
    She loved photography, and of course Jenna knew that. They’d discussed it several times. She wasn’t sure why or how, or if the sensation was real or just another mirage she put up in her world to make something doable, but being behind a camera put distance between her and a situation. It gave her a buffer from the uncomfortable, the too-intense insights, and the world at large.
    It gave her a sense of security and of safety.
    Jenna was seriously bright to have done this. Relief let Tania sit down and let herself settle inside. She was safe. This wasn’t going to be something super scary or super intimate. In fact, she had to wonder if it would do anything for her at all, but her mind immediately clutched at the straw offered and said she could deal with the other stuff later down the road, like in ten years’ time.
    “Okay. I’m really going to love this project.” Her mind wandered to the camera gear she’d brought with her, wondering what to use first. It all depended on what they had to photograph. Then another tidbit fell into place. “That’s why you told me to be sure to bring my camera gear, isn’t it?”
    “Yes, it is.” Jenna nodded, but she didn’t look at Tania. Instead, she kept her gaze on Kane.
    Realizing she’d been awash in her own satisfaction and joy at what she would be doing, she’d put no thought to Kane’s role in all of this. It wasn’t as if she needed him to carry stuff. It was all lightweight, and she’d been packing her gear for a long time.
    She frowned as she took in the hard gaze between Jenna and Kane, realizing she’d missed something.
    “Uhm, what’s going on?” She studied the tick on Kane’s jaw and recognized that instead of a blow-up, he’d gone super quiet. In her dad’s case, it meant he was seriously pissed. She winced. Kane was going to have a monster of a headache after this. Clenching his jaw, his neck was corded, and as her gaze slipped down his chest, she realized his fists were almost white at the knuckles.
    “Jenna?” No one could miss the signals in the room right now. She cleared her throat and tried again. “Maybe you could tell me what Kane and I are going to photograph?”
    Kane, his voice like silken steel, answered instead. “Go ahead, Jenna.” His voice deepened dangerously. “Tell us.”
    Shit. Tania’s gaze raced from the one so furious she couldn’t believe he was holding back to Jenna, who sat calmly, returning his stare in apparent unconcern. But Jenna was no fool; everyone knew you didn’t turn your back on a dangerous animal.
    And right now Kane was one hell of a dangerous animal.
    “Why don’t you tell her, if you think you know,” Jenna said smoothly.
    “Kane?” Tania wanted this tension to break. Even tensile strength had a breaking point.
    “It’s not what you’re going to photograph,” he snapped. “It’s who.”
    Tania didn’t understand, but at the approving curl on Jenna’s lips, she figured Kane just got the favorite student award.
    “Who am I supposed to photograph?” she asked, bewildered.
    “Me.”
    *
    Kane closed the door to his room with a very controlled click. He stood stock-still and let the anger ripple through him. He didn’t