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Angel woke up screa to control his ragged breathing The heart ticked away in his chest, coh his body He felt as if Francis were close enough to touch
He threw the covers back and stuerator open, he stood in the wedge of yellow-bright light, staring sightlessly at the jumble of jars that Madelaine and Lina had left for hi, he reached for the pitcher of skiers curled around the cold plastic, he snapped He was about to drinkshow tunes?
He flung his head back and stared up at the wood-beaht a wrenching sense of guilt He slaot to get on with my life My life …”
But as his life—and how did he find it?
He went into the living room and flopped into the Navajo-print chair “What do I do, Franco? How do I change?”
He waited and waited, but no answer came to him After a few one off the deep end, bro I’ for tips from the recently dead
His smile faded It wasn’t funny
Restless and edgy, he got out of the chair and went to the back door, flinging it open Outside, daas just beginning to break across the water, throwing pink spears across the rippling silver sea Wind shivered through the trees, and for a weird e, Franco? How?”
You already have
The words cah the wind At first he didn’t understand, didn’t remember his question Then it fell into place
He so for the easy answer”
He laughed uneasily and closed the door, going back inside Noas talking to ghosts Could channeling be far behind?
Angel knew he’d changed, but it didn’t feel like anything that es—taste in music and food, a new need to be around people It wasn’t exactly earth-shattering He hadn’t done anything different, and he was a ed hi hih He had to do so
He’d been in this cabin for alht him food and left it on the porch, as if he were Quasimodo on a low-fat diet There was a brand-new Mercedes in the driveway—the first time he’d ever owned a car with more than two seat belts and a side it He’d yet to drive either one
He was hiding out here, protecting himself from ould happen when the world found out about his transplant Now there was confusion about the diagnosis, but that wasn’t going to last