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had lied to her. He hadn’t warned the others, and the more she thought about it, the madder she got. It took her almost two hours to straighten and clean the room, righting everything that Jonah had wronged. She was afraid to leave the vials anywhere in the room, so she kept them on her. She’d never told them the truth, that she still had them. She never told them the truth, that the second vial contained a killing agent. The less people that knew, the safer she’d be. She patted the vials in her pocket, picked up the gun, and walked out of the room with one person on her mind.

                                                     Chapter 5

          Cathy opened her senses to the powers on the lower level. She never could pick up on Ethan’s, so she concentrated on Edward’s. It was faint, but she found it. She followed the source out of the lobby and down the hall, where it continued past a closed door. She pulled it open and stopped. There were stairs leading down into a basement. The iridescent lights flickered, showing the way. She gingerly stepped down the stairs, gripping the gun tightly. The only thing she could hear was grunts coming from whatever was down below.
          Ethan’s voice stopped her. “She trusted you. We all did.”
          Grunt.
          “I should kill you.” Edward’s menacing tone matched the growl that followed.
          “Black will kill you both if anything happens to me.”
          Cathy moved off the last step and rounded the corner into the room. Jonah was chained to the wall, his hands above his head, blood dripping down his lip. One of his eyes was already black and blue and on the way to being swollen shut. The guys were doing a good job on him, and if Cathy didn’t know the truth, she would have stopped them. But not now. No, he deserved that and so much more.
          The guys stopped talking as she approached. Their gaze on her never wavered as she
    approached Jonah. The muscle in Ethan’s jaw ticked as Edward cupped his bloody knuckles. She stopped mere inches from Jonah’s face and unhooked his watch.
    “What are you doing?” Jonah asked while spitting blood out of his mouth. “You can’t have that.”
          Cathy shook her head. “I know the truth. You never sent the warning. It’s been you all along, hasn’t it?”
          She stepped back and lifted the gun. “You’re the mole. You’re the reason he’s always been one step ahead of us. You’re the reason both Gracie and Tara were almost killed. It’s all because of you.”

     She cocked the trigger as a tear slid down her cheek.
         “Say something, damn it!” She shot once above his head, imbedding the bullet into the concrete.
         “He made me do it.”
         “Tell me the truth, or the next one is in your head.”
         Cathy tossed the watch to Edward. “Destroy it.”
         “No!” Jonah screamed. “It’s connected to my gift. You can’t destroy it.”
         Cathy tilted her head and held out her hand. Edward handed her the watch back. “He gave it to you, didn’t he?”
         Jonah let his head fall forward. “Yes.”
         She tossed the watch to the ground and aimed.”
         He screamed. “No!”
         She ignored him and pulled the trigger causing the watch to burst into a million pieces before the sound of gunfire died away. It was done; it was over, it was how she was going to make him pay.
         His shoulders sagged, and his head fell forward. “That was all I had. Now I’m nothing.”
         “You’re right about that but not because your precious watch is gone. We were all your friends. We would have protected you. We would have found a way to save you and help you. Now you’ve lost us too, and you have no one but yourself to blame. Not him, not us, only yourself.”
         Cathy turned around and walked back up the