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it wasn’t
dark so that she could see his aura.
    Without
thinking, she grabbed his pillow and swung her legs over the side of the bed,
bringing her feet to rest on the rough, threadbare motel carpet. Then she
silently made her way to the sofa and knelt on the floor. She lifted his arm
and secured the pillow beneath it. With her hand still on his arm, she gave it
a gentle squeeze and whispered, “Here ya go.”
    “What’s
this for?” he whispered back.
    “Maybe I
felt sorry for you.”
    “Oh, so
my trick worked? You bought my poor, poor, pitiful me story?”
    “What?”
She snagged the pillow from under his arm and smacked it on his head. Then, she
turned toward her bed.
    He
laughed and caught hold of her wrist to stop her. “I’m sorry,” he whispered. He
tugged on her wrist to pull her down to the floor and then sat up on the sofa.
He reached out for her other wrist and held both of her hands in his. The
lighting was dim, but she could vaguely see that he had taken his shirt off.
She could see the outline of his broad shoulders and muscular arms. His large
hands held hers with a firm grip.
    “I’m
sorry,” he whispered again. “Everything I told you is true. Other than my
brother, I have no family to speak of. And I swear I didn’t do anything wrong
to get sent to military school.”
    “Well,
if you did something wrong or not, it doesn’t matter to me.”
    “It
matters to me that you believe me.”
    “Why?”
    “Because…I
li—Because I’d like us to be friends.”
    “I’d
like us to be friends, too.” She wondered what he had been going to say.
Because I like you? She pushed the thought aside.
    He
squeezed her hands and then released them. “You’d better get some sleep.”
    “You
too. Sleep good…on the sofa .” She laughed softly and then hurried to
crawl back under the warm blankets.
    Sweet
dreams , Tyler
thought.
    Same
to you , she thought
back. As she drifted off to sleep, visions of a shirtless Tyler lying alone on
the sofa, were the last images to float through her mind.
     
    *****
    “Toby
contacted me last night while you were sleeping,” Tyler informed them, in the
morning. “The final name on the list is a girl named Grace. She lives in Salt
Lake City.”
    “Salt
Lake, huh?” said Eddie. “Well then, I guess we'll go meet Sarah, this morning
and then we’ll head back to the airport.”
    “Well
then, rise and shine, boys,” Liliana said. “It sounds like we have a fun day in
store.” She glanced at Tyler and thought back to their conversation from the
night before. In the moment, when he had held her hands, she had felt as though
they had shared an emotional connection. She wondered how he would act around
her this morning. She knew that he had to focus on finding his brother. Would
he pretend that last night had never happened? She sighed. Only time would
tell.
     
    *****
    The
sunshine that had embraced the previous day was gone. In return, their morning
was welcomed by thick clouds and a new wave of cold that seemed to declare that
snow would soon be upon them.
    Liliana
stepped out to the sidewalk and held her palm up to the air. She wasn’t sure if
it was from the fog or if it was actually starting to snow, but a few small,
white flakes fell onto her outstretched hand.
    She took
a deep breath of the fresh mountain air and looked around. Her senses were
filled with lush evergreens and damp, foggy air. The fog that had set in
overnight seemed to envelop them. It felt as though ice crystals crawled on her
exposed skin, crept down her coat, and up her pant leg.
    “Right
now, I’m all about getting out of the cold,” Tyler said. “I say we head over to
the restaurant, get some food, and see if Sarah’s working yet.”
    Liliana
turned to Tyler. “What are we going to say to her?”
    “I don’t
know. I guess the same thing we told you. We’ll just explain to her who we are
and what we’re doing here.”
    “And
what if she thinks we’re a bunch of freaks and won’t