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informed Thomas.
    “Blocked? How?” Thomas asked without a pause.
    “I couldn’t tell anything of how he was feeling. Every
mission I’ve ever worked with him, prior to this, he was an open book. It was
very weird. It takes a lot of practice to learn to block your emotions like
that, unless he had help,” Sage replied, keeping an eye on Viola to gauge her
reaction to his extra powers.
    “Wait, what are you two talking about?” Viola asked as if
she were just joining the conversation.
    “Sage can sense other people’s emotions Vi,” Cora responded,
moving to her sister’s side.
    “Why am I just now hearing about this?” Viola asked, feeling
hurt and left out of the loop.
    “I guess it hasn’t come up before now,” Cora responded,
sensing Viola’s irritation.
    “So how did you find out about it then? Did Liam tell you?”
Viola snapped at her twin.
    “No, Sage did when we were trying to find you. He told me
when the mating bond with Liam kept pulling me in that direction, so he could
help me focus on the bond between you and I. After we found you, I didn’t think
about it again,” Cora said, feeling defensive.
    “So I should be thanking Sage more than you for finding me?”
Viola accused.
    “It’s not like that at all,” Cora told her sister.
    “Viola, you need to calm down,” Sage said in a warning tone.
    “Why should I?” Viola asked, putting her hands on her hips.
Anger and hurt were seeping from her pores towards the group surrounding her.
    “Darling, you are still new to your powers and your emotions
affect them. If you don’t calm down now, you’re likely to hurt someone,”
Angelica said in a calm voice as she stepped toward her tumultuous daughter.
“None of us were trying to hide anything from you.”
    “Whatever,” Viola said, and stalked off toward the room she
now had to herself. She was upset, but didn’t want to hurt anyone she cared
about because of her anger.
    Cora moved to go after her sister, but Sage stopped her with
a shake of his head. “She’s got to work through this on her own. Things are
chaotic for all of us, but she still has to come to terms with all of the
changes like you have.”
    “I can help her,” Cora said, feeling helpless.
    “You’ll only make it worse. I wish you could help, my love,”
Liam said, wrapping his arms around Cora’s waist and pulling her close.
    At the top of the large staircase, Viola listened and
watched the others. She saw and heard Sage and Liam hold Cora back from coming
after her and was furious with her twin for allowing them to do so. Not even
Cora was there for her when she needed her anymore.
    Feeling like punching something, she turned and entered her
room, ran over to the gigantic bed and began punching the pillows and mattress.
Without realizing it, she began screaming and cursing everyone and everything
as she wore herself out.
    When she had nothing left, Viola flopped down onto the bed,
breathing hard from her exertion. She didn’t want to admit it, as silent tears
made their way down her cheeks and onto the heavy comforter, but she felt
better after her violent explosion. She’d finally released a lot of the pent-up
tension that had been filling her since all of this began just a few days ago.
    As she closed her eyes, the face of the stranger who’d taken
her from her bed at one of their parents’ other houses, floated into focus
behind her eyelids. She felt that she must be dreaming as his hand came up to
stroke her face and it felt to her like it was happening in reality.
    “Who are you?” Viola asked him in her mind.
    “It doesn’t matter,” he responded to her surprise.
His deep voice making her sigh with longing.
    “It matters to me. I can’t get you out of my head,” she
pleaded.
    “We can never be together. I’m not good for you. You need
to stop thinking of me. I can feel it when you do,” he responded with
sadness in his voice.
    “Why? Why can’t we be together? Please, tell me your name
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