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With that, he turned and walked into the living rooht said when he had left the roo as actors"

"Or MEs," Jude said

"Hey, I’ht said "Why the hell do you think I ith the dead?"

By the ti softly on the sofa Jude told Whitney that they should leave him there while hebefore the bank of screens in the hallatching the strange rise and fall of the shadows in the foundations next door While keeping one eye on the strange phenoed, she fast-tracked the filht before She realized that the killer had ed to dispatch his victie of every caht, Jude and Jake ca alibis, and Jake had been running rounds on the actors, actresses and crew on the h the security tapes froinia Rockford had been ain, the killer had eluded the filht

"Back to me," Will told Whitney "Go to bed"

She looked at the two of the to leave him there," Jude said

She was surprised "He’s a cop He has a gun And we sleep in this house"

"Soht," Will assured her

Jude offered her a hand

She accepted it Obviously, he was staying It was probably far beyond the wrong side of protocol, but they seldo needed downtime; this was downtiht on and it cast a gentle glow into the bedroom

She’d barely closed her door before she turned into his ar, and as they clung to one another, desperate for the release in socloth that separated them Guns wound up on either bedside table; shoes were kicked to the far corners of the rooht Immersed in his masculine scent and touched by the powerful heat of his body, Whitney felt the world disappear, and despite the urgent vigor of their love-y and electricity seared through her, and she delighted in stroking the ribbed muscles of his shoulders, chest and abdoly, and she forgot everything as their flesh rubbed erotically together, as he kissed and touched her intihtful little orgasry for the ultily, and she arched harder and harder against him until she felt the delicious, sweet burst of release, and in seconds, felt the shuddering impact of his body as he reached the saainst him and whispered, "I think you’ve allowed me to survive this with a mind left"

They hadn’t survived it yet, but she kept silent on that, brushing a kiss against the daain; they had been sleep deprived since she had come to Blair House She wasn’t aware then if he lay awake or if he had drifted; she only knew that sleep swept over her like a co, or if she had wakened She felt first the soft wet touch of the dog’s nose on her hand, urging her to awake She opened her eyes, and they were back

Annie Doherty stood at the foot of the bed, and the other victiht so crowded in her room; there were so ly

The dog whined He barked, wagging his tail He headed for the door; she didn’t He ca; the victih the walls that led to the upstairs landing and the stairs

"Whitney!"

She heard her na called from somewhere far away She knew that whatever it was that she needed to know, the dog was trying to tell her

She opened the door to the hallway

But she didn’t e to open it She felt arms on her shoulders and she turned to see Jude’s concerned face "Whitney, you’re sleepwalking And you’re naked"

So she was And now she ake But she still felt the urgency because of her dreao next door"

"It’s the "

She shook her head veheet the others, and we have to go next door"

She shook free fro from wherever it had fallen on the floor He did the sauns and holsters fro on Jackson and Angela’s door, and running along the hallway doing the sa to the bottom of the stairs

Whitney heard Jude run down the steps to try to explain while she woke the others

Jackson wasn’t with Angela He’d been downstairs with Will; they haddisheveled but quickly alert, the Krewe of Hunters asselanced at Jude He wasn’t protesting, but she thought that he was surprised that none of the others seemed to think that Whitney was crazy

Ellis woke up, dazed, and then beca? Oh, God, not anotherhiainst Whitney’s ear

"Intuition! It’s our specialty," Angela said