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Singing Heart, which probably looked pretty stupid considering she was wearing jeans
and combat boots, Kaine walked over to John to take the duffel out of his hands.
She scented metal and gunpowder and knew he d stashed at least one gun in his
bag and another in a holster at his back, covered by the loose cotton shirt he d pulled on
over a tight t-shirt.
 We can take my car, John said, his expression unreadable.  If you can drive
stick.
 I can. Are you ready?
He hesitated for two seconds before he looked down at his sister.  Yeah. Let s go.
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Chapter Five
As Kaine drove, John paid careful attention to every landmark, every road sign they
passed.
They d driven through the city and into Mount Penn, the neighboring borough.
From there, she d taken them through Exeter Township and into Oley Township.
Urban sprawl had given way to suburban developments then to fields and farms
and intermittent patches of forest as the sky began to lighten with just a hint of dawn.
When she finally turned onto an unmarked lane cutting through a stand of trees, he
knew he d be able to find his way back to the city with no problem.
He still couldn t believe he d agreed to this.
Did he honestly believe his sister had magical powers that the people who d
kidnapped them months ago had purposely released from hiding? And that a bunch of
witches could fix her?
Witches.
Well, how could he not when it would explain so many of the unexplainable things
that d been happening around her?
Christ, he should ve taken her to the emergency room.
Yeah, and what would you have done when she blew out the glass in the windows and
caused the electricity to go haywire in all that equipment?
Shit. This was just too fucked up to believe. Maybe he d wake up in the morning
and find this all to be one long, drug-induced nightmare.
If only it were that easy.
But where would that leave Kaine?
The woman hadn t said one damn word the entire ride. Not that he d attempted
conversation. He d been thinking, turning things over in his mind, trying to look at all
the angles.
Kaine had been stewing.
John knew guilt when he saw it and Kaine had a boatload of it sitting in her gut.
Amity, the witch doctor or whatever the hell she was, had told Kaine it wasn t her fault,
that she wasn t to blame for what had happened to Evie.
Kaine thought she was. He d read her expression clear as day back at the
apartment. He couldn t see her face now in the darkness of the car but tension
continued to roll off of her in waves.
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He was almost surprised Kaine hadn t driven them off the road and into a ditch.
But she handled his temperamental  73 Dodge Dart with the ease of a professional
driver.
He d had the Dart since he was teenager, had rebuilt the thing from the wheels up
with his dad over the summer of his sixteenth birthday.
They d finished it only months before his death.
 We re here.
Blinking, John realized Kaine had eased the car to a stop.
Since there wasn t a streetlight in sight, he could only see the outlines of one-story
homes clustered along a road that was little more than a lane.
The house they d parked in front of had its porch light burning and three people
stood in the open door.
Two men, one woman.
 That s Tanner and Jensen and their, ah, mate, Nica. Nica s who you re here to see.
She s a healer. She s really good at what she does. She ll be able to help Evie.
He turned back to look at her.  You know this all sounds crazy, right? All this
magic shit. I don t even know why the fuck I m here.
He watched her face, looking for who-the-hell-knew-what but her dead-serious
expression never flickered.
 You re here because you love your sister.
 Who s passed out in the backseat for a reason I don t fucking understand.
 Amity told you what s going on.
 But do you honestly expect a sane person to believe all this crap?
She shrugged, her mouth quirking into a rueful curve.  You came, didn t you?
For one very brief moment, he remembered exactly how hard he d come inside her
body. Twice. And heat flooded through him.
But he knew she wasn t talking about sex.
 Yeah, I m here.
 Then let Nica take a look at Evie. She can help.
Despite the situation, despite everything that had happened and the general
weirdness of the situation, John knew he could trust Kaine. He felt it to the bottom of his
soul.
Reaching for her, he cupped her jaw in one hand. The bone felt delicate in his hand,
her skin so damn soft. He felt her freeze like a deer in the headlights and watched a
painful vulnerability creep into her eyes.
He wanted to pull her into his arms, hold her against his chest and
She turned away and slid out of the car, heading for the porch.
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