New Revelations: Second Sight Book Two (12 page)

The idea of seeing the future was as foreign a concept
to her as people who ordered salads from McDonald’
s. After her coma, Kate had accepted
her visions would always be of something that happened in the past tense. It negated her of responsibility in a way. Since the events already took place, she was powerless to do anything to stop it. If she could see the future, this would be a complete game changer.

“I know it’s hard to
understand
and sounds far-fetched
. But I would imagine you have the potential to do the same thing.
” He launched into a more detailed explanation
without waiting for her to respond to his declaration.
“
I didn’t understand
it was a prophecy the first time it happened. While I was sleeping, I saw
a vision of
my next door neighbor get
ting run down by
a car while riding her bicycle. It happened a few days later and she was hospitalized for weeks from her injuries.
”

Kate rose from her chair with care
and winced at the pain in her sore knee. Her hazel eyes met his and she replied decidedly,
“I don’t believ
e it.”

“Well, that’s a big surprise,” he said sarcastically and threw out his arms in frustration.
Kate hoped h
e didn’t plan to punch anything—
namely her.

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“You’re so god damn stubborn!
I’m trying to help you and you keep putting up this wall. If you don’t want to learn anything, then we’re done here.”

It was odd to see him livid
. Even when she held the pepper spray w
ithin inches of his face, Declan
had
remained cool and collected.
He now paced in front of her like a caged tiger that needed only the slightest provocation to pounce. It would’ve been the perfect time for her mother to take a break from her gardening and interrupt them.

“Fine. Then tell me another future vision,” she challenged.

“Okay, you want to know? It was you and me…together,” he sneered.

She shot out a bark of humorless laughter. “Is that some kind of lame psychic pick up line? Because sorry buddy, you’re cute and all, but why would something happen between us when I have a super hot boyfriend?”

His eyes narrowed.
“God, you’re the most annoying person I ever met.”

Honestly, i
t was a relief to hear him say that. Hopefully, he would find her unappealing and get any romantic notions out of his head. Actually, his
present
expression looked like he was more prone to clobber her than have any desire to kiss her.

Kate sighed.
“Look, I’m going to call the
police department in
Blaine
and give them the information from the vision. I think you were right about calling it a day,” she stated flatly. He didn’t answer and she decided to head upstairs to the privacy of her bedroom t
o put distance between them and
make the call.

***

Twenty minutes later as Kate
headed back downstairs, she was surprised to hear Declan’s deep laugh carry across the room. She’d been certain he would’ve been long gone by now. It had t
aken her awhile to reach an available detective
at the police department
and provide the tip about Ally Seldon being the name of Max’s abductor. The officer she spoke to didn’t seem to put much merit into the description of her vision
.
This encouraged Kate
to leave a message on
Farrah’s
cell phone. Farrah
had a strong faith in psychic phenomenon and
Kate knew she
would
ensure that the authorities
would
put in an effort to
locate the woman from her vision.

S
he was surprised to see Gage, Julie and her mom yukking it up with Declan.
The boys were talking about football which she guessed came about when
Declan saw Gage’s Giants jersey
. Julie and her mom were discussing different punch reci
pes Julie could experiment with for
her upcoming
weekend party. The record scratch
was almost audible as Kate
walked into the
kitchen
.

Julie broke the silence first. “Hey! Did you forget we were coming by to borrow those platters and the pitchers from your mom?”

“I did,” she admitted. “Sorry I’ve had a lot going on this week.”

“That’s okay,” Julie said.
Kate didn’t miss Julie’s meaningful glance in Declan’s direction.
“But you’re still able to come on Friday, right?”

Julie and Gage had been planning a sort of back to school blowout at his house for a f
ew weeks now. Since it was the couple’s
senior year of college, they wanted it to be one of their last hoorays before real life decided to interrupt. Gage lived in a large house off campus with three other guys and a party ready basement.
Kate had usually made up a lame excuse
to get out of going, but since meeting Jared, she was attempting to stave off her fears of social awkwardness.

“Of course. Jared will be able to make it too,” she said
pointedly and purposely kept her eyes averted from Declan
. “Let me know if you need help setting up anything.”

Gage turned to Declan and she listened in horror as he nonchalantly said, “
Y
ou should come
too
.”

When Declan turned to her, she managed to keep her
expression
disinterested
. As he turned back to Gage, she mouthed a panicked “No!” to Julie. Julie shrugged as if to say it was out of her hands now.

“Sure, I’ll stop by,” Declan
agreed and she felt nauseous at the thought of him in the same room as Jared.

Why did he have to ruin a perfectly good psychic friendship with this nonsensical talk about them hooking up in the fu
ture? Her future vision was married to
Jared, a picket fence
and maybe seven or eight kids. She wouldn’t continue spending time w
ith Declan if he threatened their happiness
in anyway. No matter how much she wanted better control over her second sight.

Jared wasn’t able to make the party.
Kate
knew her disappointment was clear in her voice as they spoke briefly on the phone a couple of hours
before she was set to head to Gage’s house
.
It wasn’t as if she blamed him for not being able to make it. His job as a detective didn’t always have regu
lar hours and lately his cases
had
made their time alone scarce
. Couldn’t the citizen
s
of
Franklin
behave themselves so she could have time with her boyfriend?

“You sound like you’re pouting. I real
ly would make it if I could,” Jared
said
to her over the line
as he drove to the station
.

“You’re just saying that now because you can’t make it. I’m sure even if you weren’t working,
going to a party with a bunch of sweaty college kids
in a basement that’s probably brimming with hepatitis doesn’t sound appealing,” she countered.

“Working on a Friday night in a basement with a bunch of sweaty detectives isn’t exactly my idea of fun.”

“Good point.”

“Call me when you leave, so I know you’re gettin
g home safely,” he said softly.

Kate felt a little choked up at his words.
She’d been looking forward to tonight for the sole reason of catching up with him. Their conversations had been short and far between over the last few days. Jared only knew that Kate
had a vision about Max’s abductor and she hadn’t heard yet if the boy had been located.

Farrah had called her brief
ly the night of the vision to confirm the woman’s name and
discuss
any other details K
ate could recall
. Ally’s mental instability had luckily awarded Kate the opportunity to see into her head.
Kate had picked up the phone a dozen time
s
over the past c
ouple of days to call Max’s mother again
, but didn’t want to bother the poor woman in case he wasn’t found.
She assumed Farrah would call her if there was any news to report.

Kate
had used Declan’s
meditative techniques again
and received another vision from Ally Seldon. This memory went further back to when her son Zachary had still been alive. They were flying kites in the park on a warm summer day. Being inside Ally’s head
again permitted Kate
to feel the mixture of joy and
raw
pain ove
r the memory. It almost made the woman
sympathetic. She squashed tho
se feelings
fast
by focusing on the
horrifying abduction and treatment of Max. No matter how great the
anguish
, it gave the woman no right to bring pain to another mother
and an innocent child
.
Max couldn’t be Ally’s replacement after losing Zachary.

Kate was unsure whether or not to confess Declan’s
assertion
over seeing the future
to Jared
. It seemed unlikely
that there was any truth to it. However,
she was
convinced
Jared wouldn’t feel comfortable
if she developed
a friendship with someone who had romantic notions about her
.
Kate specifically hadn’t asked Declan to elaborate about his vision of them “together.” Sh
e had no idea what that
meant
exactly and only hoped
it wasn’t a vision of her sleeping with him
.

Although Kate
was unenthusiastic about
spending a lot of time with Declan
, she had
to admit he had helped her see
Max’s abductor. She wanted to know more about their powers, but not at the cost of risking her relationship with Jared. Thank
fully, she hadn’t heard from the fellow psychic
in days. It gave her time to try to wrap her head around everything he had said.

Jared’s voice broke into her thoughts.
“Kate, are you there?”

“
Sorry. Of course, I’ll call you…
Stay safe too while you solve the case of the murdered hooker,” she replied.

“It’s actually a
stolen car case, but I appreciate your concern,”
he laughed before she disconnected the call
.

In a way Kate
was relieved to be off of the phone with him. Any longer and she w
ould
start driveling on about how needy sh
e was feeling.
Kate imagined that n
othing
could be more of a turnoff than a new girlfriend beggi
ng her boyfriend to make
her troubles go away. She was definitely keeping an eye on her alcohol intake tonight.
She d
idn’t want to drunk dial him later and make him consider
permanently
changing his number.

An hour late
r
,
Kate frowned at her reflection in the mirror.
Now that Jared wasn’t coming
to the party
, she wasn’t sure what to wear. In this heat wave, the number of bodies
in the basement would
make the temperature feel stifling. However, wearing a short skirt without her boyfriend around to shoot anyone who tried to cop a feel might be asking for trouble.
She settled on a pair of denim shorts and a tribal printed tank top. It was a party in a basement, so it
wasn’t
like she could be accused of under-dressing. She decided not to straighten her hair since the humidity would likely end up turning it into a frizzy mess in a couple of hours
anyway
.

As she drove
over to Gage’s hou
se, Kate
couldn’t help but feel anxious over thoughts of Declan.
While
he
may have
claimed to have
had
a future vision of them together, she didn’t feel as if that was his
true
purpose
behind seeking her out.
A few times she had caught a
wolfish
look a
s he watched her. There hadn’t been affection in his eyes,
but something different. Kate speculated
he had only told her the vision of them together to prevent her from finding out his true motivation behind helping her.