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Maybe after last night, I think we should try.”
    He was actually serious. I sat up. “You know what? I think you did lose your mind in there.”
    Lucas laughed and pushed me back down. “You kept me sane last night using the connection. So use it now. Make sure I don’t change. Come on, don’t you want to?”
    I hesitated. Yes, I wanted to, but ...
    “I don’t think now is the best time,” I said delicately.
    “What’s wrong with now? I lived through that hell with my sanity intact—thanks to you.” He rubbed his nose against mine. “And Derek is alive, everybody’s okay. And this is the safest time. Right after the full moon. With you keeping me in control, it’ll be perfect.” He smiled roguishly and kissed me so fiercely, I had trouble resisting.
    “We don’t know if Derek’s okay yet,” I said.
    Lucas stopped and his face slowly settled into a scowl.
    Apparently, that was the wrong thing to say.
    “I’m sorry,” I said quickly. I put my arms around his waist. “I didn’t mean it ... like that. I don’t know. Just forget I mentioned it.” I tried to pull him toward me, but his back stiffened, preventing me from moving him even an inch. “Lucas, come on, aren’t you exhausted anyway? I mean, last night was horrible for you. For both of us.”
    “You don’t gotta tell me that,” he said. “I know exactly what it was like. What I don’t know is why you have to bring Derek up whenever we’re alone together.”
    I felt my mouth open and close as I groped for a good answer. “I’m sorry,” I said to avoid a fight. “I promise I won’t do it again, okay? I’m sorry.”
    Lucas rolled off of the bed and pulled on a pair of Levis. He cocked his head at the window and said, “It’s nighttime.”
    “He must not be here then,” I said softly. “Rolf would have woken us up.”
    “Yup.”
    Finding my shirt lodged in between the pillows, I pulled it over my head and got out of bed. I hated doing this, but ...
    “Will you find him?” I asked.
    Lucas’s eyebrows lifted just the tiniest bit. “Of course I’ll find him,” he said. “He’s probably hiding in the woods.”
    “Or dead.”
    Lucas put his hand on my cheek for an instant and then let it fall. “I’ll be back. If you go downstairs, don’t tell them where I’m going.”
    “Thank you.”
    Lucas looked at me with this odd, pained sort of expression that made me feel horrible for having asked him to search for Derek, and then turned to leave.
    Through the window I watched Lucas run out the back doors. He stripped his jeans, put them in his mouth, and changed in midrun.
    As I watched him disappear, I pondered his earlier words. Could I really keep his will to change reigned in? Control his instinct and make him normal? I’d done it last night. It had been grueling, but it had worked.
    And I had Yvette to thank for tipping me off. She had seemed to know that I would be able to save Lucas. Which could only mean that she knew about my power. And if that was the case, I needed to know how she’d found out and what else she knew. Now.
    I straightened and walked downstairs to the kitchen to find a few runts making ice cream sundaes.
    “Hey,” I said. “Do any of you know where Yvette is?”
    They regarded me coldly. A girl with dirty blond hair said, “She’s usually in the study with Rolf.” She pointed down the hall. “Third door on the right.”
    “Thanks.” I grabbed an apple from the counter and headed down the hallway, hearing the runts’ whispers as I went—probably talking crap about me.
    I reached the correct door and paused before entering, taking time to lean against the wall and down the apple. I didn’t want to do this in front of Rolf, but I needed to know what Yvette knew. Maybe I could get her to talk to me someplace private. Gathering my courage, I stuffed the apple core into my pocket and faced the door again.
    But as I poked my head inside, I realized getting Yvette to follow me out wasn’t