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Max didn’t ask about Faith’s contact, taking it as a given that that contact would soon be dead if it beca inforet her to a hospital?"

The foreseer’s endless eyes met his "No She’ll wake up soon"

A si me?"

"There’ll be time after she wakes" Faith looked up at herthrough her hair "Coffee?" she asked

Vaughn’s sent "Addict"

"Your fault" The foreseer’s expression was soht words "We’ll need to talk once she wakes"

Shn untangled his fingers from his mate’s hair and went to exit the roo here"

"I’ll stay" No way in hell was he leaving his Sophie alone

Faith see as she rose to her feet But in the end, she followed Vaughn out in silence

Faith walked straight to where Vaughn wasan arth of his side "The answer’s no"

She rubbed her face against his chest as he turned to e the scent of hi to ask?"

"We have beenkiss froentle possession

"You said it yourself, Faith" A quiet re out of his eyes "The future isn’t fixed It wasn’t for Dorian"

"Yes" She’d seen the sentinel’s future blacked out, had thought it meant death, but he’d survived "It’s different this tihn"

"How?"

"I saw bits and pieces of reality--the fact that Sophia would need us for soht, other events thatwave I can’t describe it, but I know soe is about to happen, and it’s centered around Sophia Russo"

"You’re talking about more than the life of one persontwo people," he added, and she knew he’d seen the way Max looked at Sophia So had she

Her foreseer’s heart hurt for the like this, but fro the records her father had le out to her--"F-Psy in the past noted the same kinds of sensations before hn cupped her face, an areola of pure gold around his irises, the jaguar rising to the surface "Are you talking earthquake, plague, political turmoil?"

"Any, all," she whispered "But whatever it is, Sophia Russo is the doin an unstoppable cascade" The J was the leading edge of a perfect storht annihilate them all

"Max?"

"It’s as if he si at the tie that held back her h silk, a faet that same sense of blankness as I did with Dorian Instead, it’s this feeling that he’s never been a part of her life Which is ihn stilled "Not if the Sophia you see is Sophia after rehabilitation"

Faith shook her head in stunned horror, but he was right Full rehabilitation wiped out the psyche, creating a slate so blank that nothing of the ued with hi it had to have been their sexual play that had caused this, but driven by gut instinct, he got on the bed and cradled her in his lap And the instant he did, it felt right She was a soft, eight on hi wild and panicked inside him settled