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"How else do you explain it?" she asked quietly, studying his taut profile as he continued to watch the road as he drove toward town "You pulledto me in the truck after we arrived at the tavern I had no idea what the vision meant"

His jaw clenched, and his eyes narrowed

She looked back out the

"Why didn’t you tell me then?"

"We didn’t have a pact back then that I would tell you if I had any visions--and you wouldn’t have believed me anyway Besides, it didn’t seem important And I didn’t think about it ere in the tavern"

Ryan grunted "You said you didn’t have them unless they were important to you So it seems this would have been important And you said that they were pre that would occur pretty soon You should have said sonize him? See a face?"

"My… ht hen I tried to see hiht it was the vision, but I think noas because my eyes were filled with soap"

Ryanfor about a mile, and then shook his head "Great"

"Great, what?"

"How does this work, Carol? Do you conjure up the visions? Soer them? Or do they just happen?"

She studied his stern face "They just happen"

"You can’t force one?" He glanced at her, his eyes trying to read her like a wolf’s would

She looked back out the

He didn’t say anything for some time, but then he pulled over to the side of the road Startled, she glanced at Ryan, wondering as up now

Jake drove up behind the, and he jerked it off his belt and flipped it open "Yeah, we’re okay, Tom We just have to discuss a little matter" He ended the call and pocketed his phone "Can you force a vision?"

She frowned at Ryan "Not exactly"

"Define not exactly"

"It’s not normal for me to be able to force a vision"

"But?"

She took a deep breath "Maybe it’s the changes in row older I have a little more control I don’t know Someti that is close to happening"

"Like?"

"Darien not being able to shift back"

"Wishful thinking?" Ryan asked

She cast him her chilliest look, one that could have frozen the nearby lake despite it being spring "The night before last, I envisioned soI had wasn’t fear but annoyance, so I knew it couldn’t be too bad"

Ryan swore under his breath, reached out and took Carol’s hand, and squeezed "Mervin at the gaht with the stupid visions of hiht" He pulled back onto the road and headed the rest of the way into town

All right? Now he believed her?

"How about a vision of anything else? Foresee any problems at work, perhaps?"

"No I’ll let you know about any visions I have I said I would"

He drove in silence for a while and then said, "Why did you conjure up the vision of Darien?"

She sighed under her breath What difference would it make if Ryan knew? She looked out theand said softly, "To keep frolanced back at him He snapped histime bomb"

She sht And you’ll ith only olf patients, like Darien ordered" Ryan glanced at Carol, his expression all business She would obey hile" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>