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"What?" She let out her breath "Don’t tell me you and your kind don’t believe in fantasy worlds You’re a living, breathing fantasy--all of you…well, us--if you want to really get technical"

"Fantasy is in the eye of the beholder We are the stuff of legends, not fantasy exactly"

"Right, so I have psychic visions, and you think that’s fantasy But for , he appeared to consider her words as plausible But then he said, "I believe we’ve established that fact" He shrugged "Me believe in Santa Claus? Only if he wore a wolf suit soht surprise you Little Red Riding Hood? The wolf, as caring about children as a good fa Hood horandive the wolf a chance to prove he was one of the good guys The woodcutter took one look at the wolf and immediately labeled hiinal version also, so they knohat others are talking about But we feel we’re a little more open minded"

She raised her brows "I take it the wolf is not the bad guy in The Three Little Pigs, either"

"Nope, he was totally frarin that suited him so well He pulled out his credit card, tapped it on the table while watching her, and then finally asked, "Do you feel there’s a reason for having the visions?"

She shrugged "You don’t believe anyway"

"If I did, why do you think you have them?"

"I have no idea why some people have a psychic connection and others don’t Probably just like no one knohy soraphic eniuses ine’re not all the saree?"

He studied her, and she swore he wasthat over Maybe he wasn’t hopeless after all when it ca that wasn’t exactly scientifically proven

She sighed deeply "No one in my family has any paranor to speak about No one wanted me to reveal my talents, either I even had nice little discussions with a psychiatrist, starting when I was seven

"Dr Metzger atte to convince ination That paranormal abilities weren’t possible That they couldn’t be recreated in a scientific environment In other words, those of us who have these abilities ht’ all the tihtened fractionally She wasn’t sure what the ive up on nal for her to continue She’d never discussed the reason with anyone except her mother because the psychiatrist had been so mad at Carol She wouldn’t have told Ryan, but for whatever reason, she wanted hi him the story about the doctor wouldfor a ive up on you, Carol?"

"I saw his wife and unborn child die in a car accident before it happened At least I assu about thenant wife driving the car, and she looked the same as the picture he had of her on his desk, probably taken shortly before the accident I was sure it was a vision of so

"I wouldn’t have told hihtinto the city We lived in Denver at the time, but he lived out of town In my vision, it inter, and the roads were icy Their car skidded on the slick roads and crashed into a tree He didn’t believethe tale because I wasto helpthat day so well Hot tears had filled her eyes, her throat closing

"He said I was a horrible person forlike that about her Not someone as supposed to have her best interests at heart Carol took a deep breath, the feelings of that day swaret For years, she’d wished she’d never said a thing to him about his wife At least she hadn’t had to see hi bitter tears "He slaiant and his icy blue eyes turned darker and colder Tears rolled down otten that angry with "

"Hell, Carol His license should have been revoked"

Carol shook her head "The worst was yet to come When I left his office, he called my mother in, and behind his closed door, he told her he wouldn’t seeup horrible stories My mother asked what kind of stories, but he wouldn’t elaborate I heard hih the door of his office that if I was coet over e of getting up fro around the table to co touch She’d dealt with the issues, and they were in the past At least that’s what she kept telling herself Yet theeyes and the way he’d slammed his fist on the desk was forever i er I couldn’t tell her, not until later that night In the beginning, I really had hoped the ‘special’ doctor could help me sort out my abilities Sometimes I wished I didn’t have them Sometimes I wished everyone else did so they knehat it felt like But denying my ‘talents’ wasn’t feasible So I just didn’t let on that I had thele" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>