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Violet didn’t knohat to say But she wanted to hear moreabout Rafe About his past

"A few months after the funeral, he calledfor my help I already knew he’d run away; my aunt had called in a panic when she’d found his note, so I wasn’t surprised to hear his voice on the other end of the line In fact, I’d been waiting for it" Again, that wistful smile touched her lips, and her eyes shimmered a deep, brilliant sapphire "But boy oh boy, did he surpriseme where he was and what had happened I traced the call, and had the local police on their way before we’d even hung up"

"What" Violet hesitated, not sure she was supposed to ask "What was it? What did he find?"

Biting her lip, Sara’s eyes grew distant as she recalled that night "That’s the thing, it wasn’t what he’d found, Violet It ho he’d found And Rafe hasn’t been the saain "At least until heher expression Her eyes ide and her heart beat painfully within her chest She couldn’t find her voice, but she could see from the uncertainty on Sara’s face that she wasn’t sure if she should continue

Sara’s lips curved into a tight smile, but her eyes reirlfriend, a girl whose family--her mother and her little brother--had been on the run fro about his dreams, that sometimes they were more than just dreaht? But not Rafe’s Did you know that about hiets flashes, he calls thes that haven’t happened yet?"

Violet shook her head, not really sure how to answer Sam had explained a little, but not about the dreams

Sara’s hand smoothed her hair "He understood what the dreaer, that her father had found theo after herto try to save her, I guess" Her face cruirl’s father had slaughtered them all and had already taken off"

"Kind of like what James Nua had done to his family," Violet whispered

"Precisely That’s why I was so worried about Rafe ent to the station that day Seeing Ja what he’d done, was harder on him than he’d ever admit"

Violet understood in a way she hadn’t before

"Anyway, that night, when the police arrived and found Rafe there, he was the only one still alive He was taken into custody and questioned, but never formally accused He didn’t tell them that because of his flashes, he knehere the father was hiding out He waited until I got there and told ht The bastard was exactly where Rafe said he’d be, drunk out of his mind in a cheapuphe was still covered in their blood"

Violet shifted nervously, trying to tell herself it didn’tup in her throat nonetheless "What was her nairlfriendas her na into a mask of uncertainty "I’ve already told you tooabout any of this"

But Violet already knew "It was Sophie, wasn’t it?"

"How did you?" But Sara just shook her head, her voice distant "He hasn’t been the same since"

No wonder Rafe had sounded so hopeful when he’d called her Sophie at the hospital Violet’s heart ached for him as she blinked back her own tears now

First his hed heavily "After all that, I decided it was ti such a crappy big sister At the ti sixteen-hour days and practically sleeping at the office With Rafe there, I started bringing my work files home so I could be therewith him That hen I discovered how useful his ability could be" She sighed as she recounted the details "I woke up one night when I couldn’t sleep and caught Rafe going through my folders At first I was pissed Those were confidential FBI files, he had no business looking at them" Her bemused smile was at odds with her words "When I yelled at hiave ot this under control"

Violet snature expression

"And then, just like that, he told me who did it He kneho exactly the killer was and how he’d done it" She chuckled derisively "I’d spent the past fourwitnesses again and again and again And there he was,me where to find the murder weapon"

Violet let out her breath; her chest ached fro it "He had another drea; it wasn’t a dreah the personal photos we’d collected fro the what he could do I realized that his drea visions--or whatever you want to call theered by touch It was the first tiirlfriend, she’d left him one of those plastic troll dolls, the ones with the fuzzy hair--kind of ait and because it had been hers, Rafe drea to have a pre the ins and outs, but it seeifts work differently"