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"Kim, do you knohat he is?"

Her broorked themselves into a delicate knot "No Not really I just know that he’s very special"

"He is," I said, scooting closer Not that I was about to tell her who he really was What he really was "He is very special and he can leave his body"

She sed hard "I know I’ve known for a long ti And fast"

"Exactly And when he leaves his body, he’s even stronger and entle nod, she let

"For that reason," I told her, hoping I wasn’t about to break her heart, "he has decided to let his corporeal body pass away"

Her red-ri sank in When it did, a hand shot up to cover her mouth and she stared at me in disbelief "He can’t do that," she said, her voice airy with grief

I squeezed the hand still nestled within ree I need to find him, but he won’t tellthe truth She didn’t need to kno dire the situation was How much time he didn’t have

"What? How?"

"I’m not sure," I lied "But I have to find hiht be?"

"No," she said, her voice breaking as tears ran freely down her face "But the US marshal said he’s in a lot of trouble"

My blood turned cold in my veins Nobody, not even the state, knew Kirid No contact Reyes had insisted And there were absolutely no records whatsoever that would connect the two None that I knew of, anyway

"And now this," she continued, unaware of my distress "Why? Why would he just leave ood at his job, or he had inside infor with the inside inforood

I wrapped her hand into both ofpossible to find hiently, afraid she would break in h traffic on I-40, wondering how the bloody hell a US led She was not easy to track down, and I had known about her beforehand There just weren’t tone version of "Da Ya Think I’ Cook was on the other end "Charley’s House of Ill Repute"

"You need to pickto sell your body on the street again? Haven’t we talked about this?"