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other reason that they would be here.  I tried to hang back so they wouldn’t know I was following them, but I lost them near the base of the mountain.  I was just getting ready to turn around when I saw a set of tire tracks in the snow on the highway’s off ramp and took a chance that the tire tracks were from their car.  They’re here, too, right?”
    If Brent really did know about Drake’s transformation, it wouldn’t be nearly the shock that Gage and Bianca had.   He and Drake had spent an afternoon on Will’s yacht with Bianca and me – they were friends, too.  “What exactly did Beau tell you?”
    Brent lowered his voice, not that there was anyone here to hear us.  “Beau says he’s a real Centaur.  He’s like eight feet tall and even faster than before.”
    “He’s over seven feet tall and, yes, he’s beyond fast.”
    An unfamiliar voice shouted at us from the tree line.  “ Whatcha doin’ here?  Got car trouble?”
    We both froze , but it had nothing to do with the temperature.
     
     
     

Chapter 3
     
    ( Camille, Deserted Motel in South Dakota )
     
    What was this, Grand Central Station?  A young woman wearing a white ski parka and matching snow pants emerged from the tree line.  Bright red hair fell around her face from under her jacket’s hood.  It wasn’t curly, but it wasn’t straight, either.  She wore half a grimace; I couldn’t tell if she was angry or if it was an expression against the cold.  Her rounded face and big eyes were attractive, but not in a beauty queen way.  She wore no make-up, and her skin was nearly as white as the snow.
    I mentally reached out to her the same way Bianca had taught me months ago.  It only took seconds to know she wasn’t a Centauride, and I breathed a sigh of relief.  I didn’t detect anyone else near her.
    Brent was the first to recover from our unexpected visitor.  “We got lost and were looking for a map.”
    Her voice sounded skeptical, “Lookin’ for a map, outside your cars?”  Brent’s car was pulled in right beside Bianca and Gage’s.
    Where had this woman come from?  People don’t just appear out of the woods, not in temperatures like this.  I looked behind her to confirm she was alone.  Her question hung in the air a few seconds too long.
    She eyed us suspiciously.  “If yer up here snoopin’ for the Henderson brothers, ya can tell ‘em the same thing I already told ‘em – it’s not fer sale.”
    Brent s napped back, “We weren’t snooping.”
    Her tone said more than her words as she looked at the uncovered portion of the sidewalk.  “There are an awful lot of footprints here for jus’ the two of ya.”
    Panic grabbed me when I looked around the property.  My mind flashed to the other night when we’d been surrounded by Centaurs at Cameron’s house.  I looked around and saw the only footprints belonged to Gage, Bianca, Brent and me.  I let out a breath and answered, “Sorry, we aren’t from around here.  My friend and her husband looked around back to see if a map was posted somewhere.”
    “ Uh huh, where are yer friends?”
    “Good question. ”  Hoping they were paying attention to our unexpected visitor, I yelled, “Gage?  Bianca?  Hey, where’d you two go?”
    Bianca was the first to come around the corner.   She answered, “Right here.  There’s no map around back.”  Bianca could have been an actress when she looked at the red-headed human and looked almost startled.  “Oh, hi.”  She held out her hand to the stranger and gave the woman her best southern belle impersonation, “Shame on me for my manners.  I’m Bianca Richardson.”  She held out her hand, gesturing to Gage trailing her, “And this is my husband, Gage.  It’s so very nice to make your acquaintance.”
    I hadn’t heard anyone talk like that the whole time I was down south .  She sounded just like the ladies in the movie Steel Magnolias , and it took every bit of control I had not to giggle.  The