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She stopped dead suddenly, seeing a for it wasn’t going to be another buuy fro at the end of the block, right in front of one of the few trees in the area There was soe about him, but she didn’t quite knohat…

"Hey!" she called back Li on her one heel, she started for hiure out as different about hiht you had left!" he replied softly His voice… it was like silk He stood so still, and yet it seey and power "I had hoped to see you again," he told her

She s that the ce, was behind her now Just as the buht… it lay ahead with a sudden awesome and new mystery

"Theresa… co to you, gorgeous! she thought, s inwardly

And she was

Her one heel clicked on the pave ether, they could brave it

She could see his smile The flash of his teeth, she was so close

She saas different about hiht… it eird

But on such amore intoxicated than she ever had due to the influence of liquor Maybe there were a few re that stayed to warm her bloodstream, to make her feel as if her heart juht her closer

It seeic…

She ca directly in front of hiain," she s are to come"

The sound was still so seductive As were his eyes

She couldn’t have … off Soht

Fate Destiny Oh, yes And yet…

She didn’t even know exactly why she knew, or what she knew, or what exactly it was that she saw… or felt… except that it was…

She struggled to understand

"Come with me"

"Yes!"

"Serve me!"

"Oh, yes!"

Heforbidden, and thus, ever so te, and still…

It seeht

And the blanket of the swirling blue fog

"Hey!"

So, he opened his eyes

"Hey, let’s see so in front of hi out Finn automatically reached for his back pocket, so disoriented that he wasby rote Where the hell was he? Then he realized he was on the street, sleeping against a building

For a moment he was afraid he wouldn’t find his wallet in his pocket He had no otten here--wherever that was The last thing he could recall was… ordering a beer and a haer

To his relief, he found his wallet, in his back pocket, right where it should have been

"New Orleans, huh?" the officer said

"Yes"

"What did you do--pass out here on the sidewalk?"

Finn shook his head, standing, praying that he wasn’t going to be arrested

"I…" He hesitated, then decided to tell the truth "I was trying to drive straight through to Maine But when I saw the signs for Boston, I figured I had to stop and get so to eat I think I was siainst the wall… and nodded off But I’o, now, I think" He glanced at his watch "Yes, hours ago I’ll take any blood test or breathalizer you want"

The officer was sohtly graying hair, and a stocky build

He handed Finn back his wallet "You’re on your way to Maine?"

"My wife is up there Her fainally from Massachusetts; they e"

"How coain, then shrugged "We had soet her back"