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stared at me with large eyes.
“What? You saw me in your vision?”
I nodded. I knew it sounded insane.
“This is unbelievable,” she said. “What else?”
I told her everything else. The arsonist. The killer lurking in the woods. The murder.
“And you’re saying that the killer murdered the man who started the fire? They didn’t report a body. I just came from the scene. There were no injuries or fatalities.”
“He’s in the woods somewhere. I followed them. He killed him and then I started screaming and woke up.”
Kate checked her phone.
“What was Dr. Mortimer doing with you?” I asked.
I had to ask. Kate looked shocked, then embarrassed.
“Oh, he came along when I got the call. He thought he could help if there were any victims,” she said.
Her cheeks went a shade darker. She sat by my computer and leaned back in the chair, thinking and trying to figure it out. I could tell she didn’t want to discuss Dr. Mortimer, which didn’t surprise me. I had caught her and she wasn’t expecting that. She wasn’t ready to tell me anything.
“So you saw both of us in your vision?” she said. “That’s amazing. These visions of yours seem to be getting more and more detailed.”
“Yeah, I guess,” I said, sighing.
I waited another minute, but she didn’t say anything as she looked at her messages.
“Kate, it’s not like I’m not happy you’re together,” I said.
She kept fiddling with her phone, ignoring me, or maybe just thinking. She looked like she was about to call someone.
“Matt dropped by earlier,” I said.
“Matt was here? Shoot,” she said. “He called about a dozen times tonight. I don’t know what I was thinking, I should have just called him back. Sorry, Abby, that must have been uncomfortable. Look, nothing has happened with Dr. Mortimer. We were just talking, that’s all. I’m not going to tell Matt that because he’ll jump to conclusions about things that aren’t there yet.”
I nodded.
“But I do think I have some feelings for him,” she whispered. “Maybe. He’s really great. Isn’t that what you have always told me? But I am still very attached to Matt. Nothing is changing for the time being. I’m just trying to figure it all out first.”
I had never heard her use the word attached before when talking about Matt. That word didn’t bode well for him winning out. But I wasn’t going to say anything. And I was happy that Kate was falling for Dr. Mortimer. I just wanted Matt to know. I didn’t like lying to him and that’s what it had felt like.
I told her about his new painting and she seemed to wince when I mentioned that he had stopped by The Bugler with his homemade muffin looking for her.
“Maybe I should just talk to him, he must sense it’s coming to an end,” she said. “I just don’t want to hurt him. God, I hate breakups.”
She threw herself on the bed.
“But back to your vision. So do you have any idea where the body is? I’m going to call a guy I know on the force. He’s on duty tonight. I don’t think he’ll mind taking another look around the crime scene.”
“The body’s not far, I could still see the flames,” I said. “Unless he moved him. And Kate, I’m sure that he was the man who set the fire. When you pulled up, he was alive and standing in the crowd and I stood right next to him.”
She nodded.
“Well, that will be fairly easy to prove. He probably has evidence on his hands and clothes. They’ll be able to determine if he did it,” she said.
“Good,” I said.
“Man, he sure did quite the job on the house,” Kate said. “It’s completely destroyed. But it was vacant. Right now, the police think that a group was squatting inside at night and someone accidentally set the house on fire with one of those small camping stoves. With the real estate market the way it is and houses sitting empty, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often. But they’ll be able to tell if it’s arson.”
It would be
“What? You saw me in your vision?”
I nodded. I knew it sounded insane.
“This is unbelievable,” she said. “What else?”
I told her everything else. The arsonist. The killer lurking in the woods. The murder.
“And you’re saying that the killer murdered the man who started the fire? They didn’t report a body. I just came from the scene. There were no injuries or fatalities.”
“He’s in the woods somewhere. I followed them. He killed him and then I started screaming and woke up.”
Kate checked her phone.
“What was Dr. Mortimer doing with you?” I asked.
I had to ask. Kate looked shocked, then embarrassed.
“Oh, he came along when I got the call. He thought he could help if there were any victims,” she said.
Her cheeks went a shade darker. She sat by my computer and leaned back in the chair, thinking and trying to figure it out. I could tell she didn’t want to discuss Dr. Mortimer, which didn’t surprise me. I had caught her and she wasn’t expecting that. She wasn’t ready to tell me anything.
“So you saw both of us in your vision?” she said. “That’s amazing. These visions of yours seem to be getting more and more detailed.”
“Yeah, I guess,” I said, sighing.
I waited another minute, but she didn’t say anything as she looked at her messages.
“Kate, it’s not like I’m not happy you’re together,” I said.
She kept fiddling with her phone, ignoring me, or maybe just thinking. She looked like she was about to call someone.
“Matt dropped by earlier,” I said.
“Matt was here? Shoot,” she said. “He called about a dozen times tonight. I don’t know what I was thinking, I should have just called him back. Sorry, Abby, that must have been uncomfortable. Look, nothing has happened with Dr. Mortimer. We were just talking, that’s all. I’m not going to tell Matt that because he’ll jump to conclusions about things that aren’t there yet.”
I nodded.
“But I do think I have some feelings for him,” she whispered. “Maybe. He’s really great. Isn’t that what you have always told me? But I am still very attached to Matt. Nothing is changing for the time being. I’m just trying to figure it all out first.”
I had never heard her use the word attached before when talking about Matt. That word didn’t bode well for him winning out. But I wasn’t going to say anything. And I was happy that Kate was falling for Dr. Mortimer. I just wanted Matt to know. I didn’t like lying to him and that’s what it had felt like.
I told her about his new painting and she seemed to wince when I mentioned that he had stopped by The Bugler with his homemade muffin looking for her.
“Maybe I should just talk to him, he must sense it’s coming to an end,” she said. “I just don’t want to hurt him. God, I hate breakups.”
She threw herself on the bed.
“But back to your vision. So do you have any idea where the body is? I’m going to call a guy I know on the force. He’s on duty tonight. I don’t think he’ll mind taking another look around the crime scene.”
“The body’s not far, I could still see the flames,” I said. “Unless he moved him. And Kate, I’m sure that he was the man who set the fire. When you pulled up, he was alive and standing in the crowd and I stood right next to him.”
She nodded.
“Well, that will be fairly easy to prove. He probably has evidence on his hands and clothes. They’ll be able to determine if he did it,” she said.
“Good,” I said.
“Man, he sure did quite the job on the house,” Kate said. “It’s completely destroyed. But it was vacant. Right now, the police think that a group was squatting inside at night and someone accidentally set the house on fire with one of those small camping stoves. With the real estate market the way it is and houses sitting empty, I’m surprised it doesn’t happen more often. But they’ll be able to tell if it’s arson.”
It would be
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