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at Sophie in horror. "We know him..." Jade said.
    Sophie shook her head no.
    I turned Jade in my arms and shook her slightly. "Who is this creep, Jade?"
    " I...I...think he's the same guy as the clairvoyance sample I worked on yesterday."
    Alex came forward. "What? You mean that one of your samples matches up with the AP attacker?"
    John said, "How would you know they're the same, Jade?" He spread his hands out, like, explain please.
    I was pretty damn curious myself. It's not that I didn't care about Sophie. But Jade was my priority. I looked again at Sophie's dark circles and suddenly an idea occurred to me.
    " Hey...wait a sec..." her face turned to me."You can't sleep, can you?"
    She shook her head.
    John snapped his fingers as realization struck him between the eyes and Alex said, "Of course. The perv uses his AP to attack the girls while they can't get away."
    " But, the AP girls could just get back into their bodies," Jonesy stated with his logic.
    Which was damn fine as logic went.
    Sophie said, "No," she looked at him in despair. "If the drug becomes mandatory, we'll be trapped there. With him."
    The guys looked at the girls assembled in the room and wondered how to fight something we couldn't see. Someone that could be everywhere at any time, harming girls we cared about.
    Alex's raging strength wouldn't help.
    My corpse-affinity wouldn't.
    Jonesy could light the world up like a strobe and it wouldn't matter.
    Trapped.
    Jonesy's eyes met mine. The raw emotion standing there for all of us to see, his hand left its spot on Sophie's shoulder and wound around the back of her neck, pressing her face against his leg.
    Her shoulders trembled as she cried.
    The girls were trapped.
    Beginning with Soph.

CHAPTER 4
     
     
    I walked Jade to her Empath class first block. She'd be there for an hour and a half while I was with Smith and Tiff "learning" about Life Transference in Theory. Dad told me I shouldn't say that I actually was the proof behind the theory. I'd have to get into all the nastiness of sucking the life out of that assassin and all the explanations that would mean for me.
    No.
    Jade twirled into my arms, giving me a quick peck, looking for Griswold or someone like her. Seeing we were in the clear, she brushed the softest velvet caress against my lips. We clung for a moment then I let her go, reluctantly.
    I hung onto her arm when she would have gone inside and her black eyebrows arched in question.
    " Find that sample, Jade."
    She shuddered. "I don't want to touch that again."
    I gave her steady eyes. "If you don't do this, he can go after Sophie... other girls. Eventually, he could get to you too. The sooner we get a handle on who he may be, the faster the cops can nab his sleazy ass."
    She rubbed her hands up and down her arms, gooseflesh rising in aggressive bumps.
    Her luminous eyes met mine. "It was so awful," she whispered, biting her lip.
    I waited. I hated to press her about something that I knew was hurting or frightening her, but the alternative sucked ass so here it was.
    Slowly, she nodded. "I'll try."
    " Good," I said, relieved as I pressed her head underneath mine and met Tulle's angry eyes over her hair.
    " Thank you for seeing Miss LeClerc off so thoroughly," she said with thinly veiled sarcasm.
    I scowled, letting Jade go. As Jade walked through the door I said, "Why don't you tell Miss Tulle what's going on. Maybe she'll catch a clue."
    Tulle stomped out into the hall, trying to look intimidating (she had nothing on Griswold) and said, "You're so clever, Mr. Hart. Why don't you enlighten me about what was so important you had to stand out in the school hall pawing Miss LeClerc and making her tardy?"
    I thought about an expected response that wouldn't get my nuts in the cruncher.
    A safe answer.
    Instead, I did a Jonesy.
    " Actually, that really isn't me pawing. Pawing is much more intimate, Ms. Tulle."
    Jade stood behind Tulle and rolled her eyes at me. She couldn't believe I'd said that.
    I