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was dying at the
moment.
    "Sure. Wherever you want. Just so long as we
can get your wounds looked at," Jamie said.
    "They're flesh wounds. I won't bleed to
death without a doctor," Ethan said.
    The fact that Jamie didn't immediately reply
was worrisome. Ethan hadn't known the man for very long. It was
arguable that he didn't know him at all, but in the short time
they'd been together, Jamie loved to talk. That he was silent now
meant he was probably planning something.
    Or was Ethan reading too deeply into this
now that he knew Jamie was a paranormal? Jesus. He could control
electricity. With what happened back in the city—knocking out the
power of several city blocks like that—he could be dangerous if he
really wanted to be, and yet here he was, being anything but.
    Why the man had bothered to come back, Ethan
couldn't figure out. Jamie was a fugitive, and it was probably in
his best interest to just let Ethan die, but he hadn't. He was here
now, and Ethan didn't want to shackle him and throw him into a box
anymore. He wanted to give Jamie the chance to turn his life
around. Just one more chance, that was it, and only because he owed
him.
    Yeah. That was a good enough reason. He owed
Jamie, and there was nothing more to it than that. After this was
over, they’d go their separate ways.

Chapter Three
     
    Jessica looked at her phone for the tenth
time that hour. She'd been staring at the damned thing, checking
for messages ever since she and Jack went their separate ways.
    There was no way Jack would leave Cindy
behind. It would be safer if the man would just go off without her,
but she knew him well enough to expect that her ex-boyfriend
wouldn't leave the love of his life behind a second time.
    Cindy was a paranormal. She controlled fire,
and for the longest time she had been suspected of starting the
fire that killed Jack's family.
    Jessica didn't know if it was true or not,
she hadn't even known Jack when it happened, but Jack was making
his decision. He was going to believe her innocent, and he was
going to stay with her.
    For that, she was going to trust his
instincts and hope she hadn't made a gargantuan mistake by leaving
them alone together. The second Jessica learned that Jack had
caught Cindy, she knew her ex was going to have trouble turning her
in. Even when it had been Jessica dating him, he'd always been
so...well, she didn't have the words for it, but he had talked
about her a lot. He spoke about how he couldn't wait to get his
hands on her again, capture her and give her to the collectors.
    Those weren't exactly romantic things to be
saying, but Jessica knew the signs of a man who was still
struggling with feelings for an ex. She believed Jack did hate
Cindy for what he was sure she had done, but it was the fact that
he could never seem to stop talking about her, even when he was
drunk, that tipped Jessica off that she and Jack weren’t going to
work out.
    The drunken talks were always the worst,
mainly because Jack had been a depressing drunk, the type who was
either reminiscing about his father and brothers, who had been
burned alive, or talking about Cindy, and how wonderful she had
been, back when he'd thought she was the one.
    Yeah, they had broken up on good terms, but
Jessica was still stung by the realization that she wasn't going to
be so important to Jack.
    That was all kinds of fucked up, she knew,
especially considering what Jack had gone through, but she couldn't
help herself. She knew the moment Jack caught Cindy, he'd never be
able to hand her over, and now he was on the run with her.
    And Jessica was alone—on the run now
too—because she was the one dumb enough to go to Jack's place and
put the collectors and pencil pushers on ice. She was supposed to
be a hunter, not a paranormal; she wasn’t supposed to be someone
who could freeze the water in the air and use it to attack other
people. Now that the secret was out, she needed to go into
hiding.
    The thing she had been trying to