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"I saw him, and I know his name: Caine He looks soso noruy at the cairls wouldn’t have been afraid of hi dark, V He’s so twisted and messed up inside He steals them away and keeps them locked up He wants the Love"
Violet cringed, iirls, held hostage while he tried to convince them to love hiirlfriend collector
"I sahere he lives too A nice place in the city with a base out a loud breath "Sara’s on her way there noith the cops They’re gonna stop hi "I can’t believe it, Rafe" She whispered, her words filled with reverence "You did it" A tear slipped down her cheek "Thank you Thank you for calling me"
"I knew you’d want to know" Rafe answered as if nothing had changed between the up the phone, realizing a huge burden had been lifted, one she hadn’t even known she’d been carrying
Caine wouldn’t be able to hurt anyone else
Thanks to Rafe
She wished her gift worked like that, that she could help the way he just had But even if she couldn’t, she was glad to know there were people like Rafe out there Like her teaain as she paced restlessly, wishing Jay would hurry up and get there, and wanting her hands and feet to stop tingling She was seriously starting to worry that she was having soical reaction to her attack, that maybe she’d been more injured than anyone had realized Not only could she not shake the tingling sensation, but it see worse
She finally decided that her blood sugarShe hadn’t eaten anything all afternoon, and on the drive back fro noisily
She pulled some bread, sliced hae, and was searching for a to froerator door, she listened for it again It was hard to hear anything above the heavy raindrops that pu
There, she thought when she heard it again A rustling noise Someone’s definitely out there
She checked the clock Jay was still at work for another half hour, but she picked up her phone anyway,sure she hadn’t missed a call fro on the caller ID Nothing since she’d talked to Rafe
She kneas probably just the wind, but she couldn’t shake the feeling that so that set her hairs on end, that and theher so ju to see if an intruder was trying to break into her house, could she?
She wrapped her fingers around the handle of the knife she’d been planning to use on her tomato, and with the phone in the other hand, she tiptoed toward the front door
Her pulse was racing as she stopped in front of it, pressing her ear against its cool surface as she tried to see out the peephole
As far as she could tell, there was no one out there But she waited anyway, straining to hear sohtening around the knife’s grip
She concentrated on each breath she took, trying to cal was fine, that she was just overreacting It had been a rough week, and her i overti on the other side of the door Like nailsor claws, to be precise
Her shoulders sagged Carl! It was just the cat, trying to let sohed out loud as she crept to the , peering out just to be certain She saw hi his tail back and forth as he waited for someone to let him in Violet tapped the inside of theand his head snapped her way, their eyes locking
"I’ the curtain fall back in place as she unbolted the door and stepped aside "Man, you’re--" She froze, covering her nose with the back of her hand, trying not to drop the phone as the harsh odor of burning rubber assaulted her,
"Oh my God, cat, you reek I’ht--" she co the phone down as she tried to scoop the cat up But he recognized her tone--he’d heard it tooup the stairs before she could catch hi eyes as she waited for the acrid stench to fade She turned and bolted the door She’d have to find him and put him out eventually; there was no way she could sleep under the same roof as him until that particular imprint lost sohed, rolling her aching shoulders as she shuffled back toward the kitchen, the knife hanging loosely at her side now On top of everything else, she either felt a draft or she was on the verge of a fever She wondered if hersucked since they were in the middle of a rainstorm