title: Windfall (The Weather Warden, Book 4)
author:  Rachel Caine 
description: Rachel Caine is the author of more than twenty novels, including the "Weather Warden" series. She was born at White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, and an insurance investigator, and still carries on a secret identity in the corporate world. She and her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas with their iguanas, Popeye and Darwin; a <i>mali uromastyx</i> named (appropriately) O&rsquo;Malley; and a leopard tortoise named Shelley (for the poet, of course).
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  No Love Lost
  
  
  a Weather Warden short story by Rachel Caine
  
  
  This story is set at the time period of Ill Wind.
  
  
  She was made of light, and silk, and he could not stop touching her.
  Fingertips traveling over the delicate arch of her collarbone, as fine as a
  bird's wing. Skimming over the curve of her shoulder to trace the long,
  elegant line of her arm.
  
  
  She stopped. She stopped for me. It was an odd source of wonder to him. She
  could have waved him aside and pulled her car back on the road. She could have
  simply asked if he was all right, and left him in her dust once she was sure
  he wasn't hurt.
  
  
  But she'd asked him, Need a ride?, and he had made a choice. The kind of
  choice that altered the course of his life, of hers, of everything they would
  ever touch.
  
  
  He had chosen to love. She wouldn't know it yet --and maybe she would never
  know it --but what he had done was irrevocable. Possibly even unforgivable.
  
  
  She murmured in her sleep, arching into hi