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‘How did you find us?’ I ask

‘You kno,’ she says

I still have the bracelet around my wrist It’s been quiet for the last few ain

Nine shouts, ‘Hey, I wasn’t kidding about being bored here I don’t feel like playing nice anymore It’s up to you, but you should know that you don’t have long before I decide to aht now, or I’ll kick my way out of here and make you tell me Guess which one will make my day a little more fun?’

The man with the crooked nose rises slowly from the bench and aims his cannon directly at Nine ‘Who do you think you are, kid? You’re in no position to threaten us’

‘Whatever you’re planning, I proh worse,’ Nine says

‘I know exactly where you were before Don’t you get that? We know’ The ent Purdy,’ Walker says to hient starts to lower it and I decide to have so my telekinesis, I rip the cannon out of his hands and toss it to the back of the truck It hits the back door before landing on the floor with a clang Just at that ent Purdy stue I use my telekinesis to keep him pinned in place

‘Son of a’

‘Don’t you know you should alear a seat belt, Agent Pretty?’ Nine laughs ‘Safety first! Here, take one of et it’

Agent Purdy says, ‘However you’re doing this, you better stop it’ He tries to sound scary, but it’s hard to sound threatening in his position

I lean forward, easily breaking the strap across ent Purdy, do you knohere Saent Walker says, turning towards ht at me

For a second, I’oes blank, and I accidentally release Agent Purdy He crashes into the aisle

They have Sa him in the cave like I saw in my vision? He’s okay? I’ in the tube of Special Agent Walker’s cannon Instead of green, these lights are black and red

She grins at the alarmed look on my face ‘If you’re lucky, John Smith, or whatever your naation techniques on Sae of that little blonde girlfriend of yours What’s her naain?’

‘Oooooohhhh, shit,’ Nine says I can hear the grin in his voice as he knohat is about to go down ‘Now you’ve gone and done it’

It takes me a second to findwith you What did you have to tell her to turn her against rabs his cannon and settles back into his seat ‘Are you kidding , and, believe s into say to us She’s in love’

Once again, I’overn me in When I saw her last week in Paradise, she acted so strange SheSeconds later ere surrounded by agents and being sla else that explains it It had to have been those text es; they must have been from the police How else could they have known that Sam and I were there? Damn Now I don’t knohat to think And she’s still in love with me?

‘Where is she?’ I deent Walker says Is she taunting‘Big picture, Johnny, big picture! She’s not in it! Neither is Saovernment has Sa of my nextout of o, he says We’ll take the woman to lead us to Saet out of here?’