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My eyes recorded the lack of the tattoo on his right hand, before he took the necklace. I imagined that, because I was a police officer, all those drawings that made me curious were necessarily hidden during office hours.

"How did you know? "I asked, leaving my hand closed in hand around the icy pendant. I didn't mean the necklace, but he understood before I needed to explain.

"I heard where you were from a suggestion from your friend," he said, looking at Kendall at a glance. Too fast for someone to notice, Zachary's hand covered mine next to a lift on the sheet, so that only he and I could see. His hot fingers squeezed me slightly, and all my tense muscles relaxed. "She said she felt a bad feeling, so we followed the path we thought you should have taken.

I failed to try not to laugh. "And did you believe it?

Zachary squeezed his lips, sending me a look full of all that remorse on his face.

"If you didn't believe it, you would be dead.

I didn't have to turn around to know the expres