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"She feeds the homeless"

Of course she did Rowan had that look of a true paragon about her Matthias would sleep with no one less "That’s nice of her"

"Roill not ad for others"You are the one who rescues the defenseless"

He had no right to talk to her like this Not in the sairlfriend She wanted to throw the hot brew in his face

"You don’t have your facts straight" She sat down and hunched forward to co Itheir lives"

"Is that how you see your ability?" He sat down beside her "The young ree, I think"

"I’ve helped a few people in trouble who didn’t deserve what happened to the a note of shas I’ve done Ellen Farley is sitting in jail right now because of aze turned shrewd "Would it have been better to let her be killed by her partner?"

She absorbed the shock of his question, but only barely "What are you, so the authorities Not as many, and they are not corrupt, but they help to protect us" He picked up a roll of paper from the table "This was sent to us after the Farley woman was arrested"

Jessa took the fax and read it It appeared authentic, but of course she had no way to tell if it was It contained an interdepart to the terse paragraphs, Ellen’s partner, Max Grodan, had been identified as a fugitive and the pri extradited to stand trial in Florida

"She wasn’t involved in the killings," she said quietly "She was going to be his next victim"

"So you did not ruin her life," Matthias said "You saved it"

He was very good, persuasive and sympathetic She’d have to be the sa to kill" She handed the fax back to him "Who are they, and where are they now?"

"Many places," he said "Their naed new identities for them before they were relocated"

Welcoram, Rowan had said "Is that the plan for me?"

He watched her face "It was"

But not anyh for one night "I’m a little tired Am I supposed to sleep in here?"

"Rowan has prepared a chamber for you" He stood "Follow me"

The room he showed her to was located a few doors down from the kitchen--probably so Rowan could keep an eye on her, Jessa thought--and contained a bed, a dresser, and a color television There were also a variety of paperback novels on a three-tiered bookcase and one of the wrought-iron stands with a porcelain basin and jug She walked around the roo for surveillance equipment, but discovered only a small spiderweb and a few patches of dust that Rowan had missed on the carved wooden headboard She turned around to see Matthias standing in the doorway Acutely aware of the bed behind her, she offered him a cool smile

"This is fine," she said, and as he turned to leave she added, "You never told lanced back at her "I did not"

With that he closed the door

Matthias enabled the alarm sensor outside Jessa’s chamber door, which, if she opened it, would send a silent alert through their security system Wherever she went, the tiny transmitter he had planted in the heel of her shoe would track herfor him in the communications center "She scrubbed her cookies but I recovered them froe board and the e Jessa had posted "She warned her pals"

"We expected that she would" He read theof this?"