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He got up His desk was piled high with pens and pencils, art sheets and school et to his computer A ht keys He swiveled in his desk chair to look at theot up and walked over to stand behind the boy, studying the coiven

She turned to look at Dustin with stricken eyes

"Aaron," she said softly "Aaron bought the general’s iet at the truth," Olivia said as they drove out of the city She realized that although she’d discovered soet away--even if Nashville wasn’t really "away" Any trip there, however brief, was a pleasure; the city was sophisticated and filled with music and charm and yet still had a small-town feel

But she loved the Horse Farm, too She had adored Marcus; she’d cared about Aaron But Aaron one crazy before he’d died--or been killed Every clue seemed to lead the voice He was driving, and she sat in the passenger seat, gazing out the ishing she could roll back time

"What now?" she asked him

"I’ll call Frank in a little while and find out if he’s co new" He reached over and squeezed her hand "Hungry?"

"Yes, actually We never did have lunch We could turn around I know some incredible restaurants on Elrinned at her "I was thinking "

"Maybe she hasn’t gone yet Maybe we should all meet up there"

"And to think I once really enjoyed that café!" she said

"Grab my phone and call Jane See if they want to meet us there for an early dinner Soht" As directed, she got his phone Jane hadn’t been to the café yet; she and Abby had spentinto her coworkers’ social network sites

"You can do that?" she asked Jane

"Sometimes Pretty easy in this case Your coworkers use their email addresses as their user names and the name of one of the horses as their passcodes It wasn’t terribly hard"

"And?"

"No red flags, but we’ll talk at the café"

Olivia leaned back in the passenger seat

"Tired?" he asked

She glanced at hie," she said "Uh, where are we sleeping tonight?" She meant the question to sound very casual

"Your house," he told her "Jane and Sloan will reo and stay at Marcus’s house--or more accurately, your other house"

"Oh," she said "Will everyone know that?" she asked carefully

She thought he was s "I don’t think Malachi will mind"

"He’s kind of protective"

"He just wanted to make sure I kne extraordinary you are"

"He is my cousin"

"I assured him that I think you’re completely extraordinary"

"Ah," she murmured

He was quiet for a few minutes "We’ve talked a little about what others see as our strange experiences Do you remember the first tihost?"

"It was the general," she said "I saw hinified And I wasn’t afraid And, of course, there was Malachi’s resident ghost He lives in the fa if I really saw hi host You’d never be afraid of hihosts, though Not the way it seems the rest of you have"

"Ghosts don’t always have a reason to speak or otten accustomed to the fact that the dead can walk--and speak--you can seek them out Not everyone, of course But you definitely have the talent"

"Talent," she echoed She closed her eyes "If I didn’t have the ‘talent,’ as you say, I would’ve been forced to accept--whether I really believed it or not--that Marcus had relapsed And in that caseAaron ht be hope for the Horse Farm"