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She raised her head again "He’s a teenager He’s going after the AP girls first, cuz it’s easy But the cops think he’ll" she covered her face with her hands and Jade instinctively pulled her hands away from Sophie’s face

Jade’s scream had me wrapped around her protectively in about three seconds

Everyone rushed to Jade and she stared at Sophie in horror "We know him" Jade said

Sophie shook her head no

I turned Jade in htly "Who is this creep, Jade?"

"IIthink he’s the sauy as the clairvoyance sample I worked on yesterday"

Alex came forward "What? You mean that one of your samples matches up with the AP attacker?"

John said, "Hoould you know they’re the same, Jade?" He spread his hands out, like, explain please

I was pretty damn curious myself It’s not that I didn’t care about Sophie But Jade was ain at Sophie’s dark circles and suddenly an idea occurred to me

"Heywait a sec" her face turned to me"You can’t sleep, can you?"

She shook her head

John snapped his fingers as realization struck him between the eyes and Alex said, "Of course The perv uses his AP to attack the girls while they can’t get away"

"But, the AP girls could just get back into their bodies," Jonesy stated with his logic

Which was daic went

Sophie said, "No," she looked at hi becouys looked at the girls asse we couldn’t see Soirls we cared about

Alex’s raging strength wouldn’t help

My corpse-affinity wouldn’t

Jonesy could light the world up like a strobe and it wouldn’t matter

Trapped

Jonesy’s eyesthere for all of us to see, his hand left its spot on Sophie’s shoulder and wound around the back of her neck, pressing her face against his leg

Her shoulders tre with Soph

CHAPTER 4

I walked Jade to her Empath class first block She’d be there for an hour and a half while I ith S" about Life Transference in Theory Dad told me I shouldn’t say that I actually was the proof behind the theory I’d have to get into all the nastiness of sucking the life out of that assassin and all the explanations that wouldfor Griswold or so ere in the clear, she brushed the softest velvet caress against o, reluctantly

I hung onto her arone inside and her black eyebrows arched in question

"Find that sample, Jade"

She shuddered "I don’t want to touch that again"

I gave her steady eyes "If you don’t do this, he can go after Sophie other girls Eventually, he could get to you too The sooner we get a handle on who he may be, the faster the cops can nab his sleazy ass"

She rubbed her hands up and down her arressive bumps

Her lu her lip

I waited I hated to press her about so her, but the alternative sucked ass so here it was

Slowly, she nodded "I’ll try"

"Good," I said, relieved as I pressed her head underneath ry eyes over her hair

"Thank you for seeing Miss LeClerc off so thoroughly," she said with thinly veiled sarcash the door I said, "Why don’t you tell Miss Tulle what’s going on Maybe she’ll catch a clue"

Tulle sto (she had nothing on Griswold) and said, "You’re so clever, Mr Hart Why don’t you enlighten me about as so i Miss LeClerc and ht about an expected response that wouldn’t get my nuts in the cruncher

A safe answer

Instead, I did a Jonesy

"Actually, that really isn’tis much more intimate, Ms Tulle"

Jade stood behind Tulle and rolled her eyes at me She couldn’t believe I’d said that

I couldn’t either But, I was an okay student (okay, not stellar) and didn’t cause trouble, so why get upmy expression "I think Ms Chen needs a little visit froroaned "I’ll h, you should have considered that consequence when you got all er in the direction of the principal’s office and I stalked off, silently thanking her for the directional clue I totally didn’t knohere the office was Retarded

Ms Chen sat across fro her stiletto pump back and forth, back and forth

"Mr Hart Caleb" she began, spreading her palms on either side of her, the width of them sed by themild and innocent Jonesy could have never pulled it off

She looked down at her pulse and depressed her thu it across the desk to me

"Please tell ernail on the front

I looked:

Claudia, Caleb Hart keeps jaue down the throat of my sophomore Empath, Jade LeClerc Normally, I don’t butt irl so er even after the bell rings Will you get him to cool it? They behave in a veryto the student body as a whole- Tulle, Megan, KPH

I slid it back to Chen Yeah, that was definitely Jade and I, dry hunaw on so problems? Like Brett or better yet, that creeper that was stalking the chicks Yeah, him I felt my blood start to boil and made a conscious effort to loosen my hands and wrap them on the armrests of the chair I was sprawled in