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"Do--" She was cut off by the beeping of her cell phone Pulling it out, she said, "Sophia Russo"

"Thank God I caught you--Max’s phone won’t go through" It was an unfa as if the speaker had run a hundredinto the car when Max opened the door for her, Sophia immediately realized the reason for the call "You had a vision" And the visions of a cardinal F-Psy were accurate to within a hundredth of a decimal point

"Yes," Faith said as Max snapped on his safety belt and went to put his thued Do you understand?" Frantic words "Don’t start the engine"

Max’s thunition switch

"No!" Sophia jerked Max’s hand away fro toward her

"Sophia!" Faith’s voiceon

"I’ her frame "We’re both fine Here, you better speak directly to Max"

Leaning back in her seat, she tried to get her heart to beat in a normal rhyth the phone, he ordered her to step out of the car Neither of the in front of the innocuous-looking vehicle

"I’ her cell phone to make the call when his own proved to have a flat battery "They’ll be here in five minutes, tops"

"So soon?" She had to focus on the mundane, on the practicalrather than on the fact that Max had cohtly on the back, and she realized just how much she’d missed the contact in the frenetic pace of the past two days No one had ever told her that touch was soer, an ache deep within

"They work out of the sa we used as a base" His hand dropped away as an Enforcee "Still, that was damn fast"

Two ear of the boot the heads-up froan

"Foreseer?" The woman whistled "I didn’t realize they made civilian predictions--heard it was all business"

"Faith NightStar," Max said "She’s part of DarkRiver She saw the car explode after I started the engine"

"Hot to be so sent to the actual device" She was already ht want to clear the garage You’re not wearing protective gear"

Max nodded to the entrance raive you a yell soon as we locate anything"

Faith paced across the beautifully lighted cave that was her ho her hands up and down her arhn in the doorway Her jaguar had a streak of white dust on his face, a rip near the bottom of his T-shirt, and was so wonderful she still couldn’t believe he was hers "No" But she walked into his e and war on his current sculpture "I thought you said the cop and his J were all right?"

"They are" She ran her fingers over the gritty dust that covered the skin of his ar" She hated the as even more than the dark visions At least the visions showed her soht or avert "It’s an e--connected to someone who’s important toon to fine-tune your control over your abilities?"

She nodded, sliding her hands under his T-shirt and to the h the veil And Vaughn, it’s so really, really bad" Ice filled her heart, coated her veins "What if I can’t stop it?" What if she lost one of the people she loved?

Vaughn pressed his lips to her brow "We discussed this You’ll go mad if you take responsibility for every evil you can’t stop" His tone was gentle but absolute "You saved two lives today Celebrate that"

Raising her head, she le cat made human--that had become the fulcrum of her universe "It’s hard" And part of the reason why so one irrevocably mad in the past--that need to save every life, avert every sorrow, could devour the unwary