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Mrs. Diamond gets startled by all the commotion as two other armed FBI agents storm the front door, aiming their weapons only at Mario and the dark-skinned female.
It’s like a scenario is playing out in slow motion before me, a bit like Robert Downe Jr.’s Sherlock Holmes character could see what was about to happen.
I launch myself into the air just as Mrs. Diamond triggers the tasers.
I need to get to Ophelia before she gets—
ZAAAAAP!!
So.
Much.
Pain.
Seventy-Two
HELPLESS
Ophelia
Mrs. Diamond turns to her daughter.
ZAAAAAP!!
My muscles cease up.
“AAAAGH…”
Seventy-Three
NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT
Tucker
“AAAAAGH!”
Five seconds of agony.
Groaning, I eventually roll onto my back.
Is this the message you were trying to send, Jillian, with the connection Ophelia and I have when we sometimes touch? Because that pain I could have done without.
Or is this just dumb-ass bad timing?
I am staring up at the ceiling when Mack’s face looms over mine. “How are you feeling? Mrs. Diamond didn’t mean to trigger both tasers and take you down.”
Ophelia!
Mack calculates the panic on my face, patting my shoulder reassuringly. “She’s okay.”
“Where’s Bunny?” I croak out, keeping in character, trying to wrestle myself into a sitting position.
Mack holds me down. “Take it easy, for another minute or two,Honey-bear—”
Mack is a barrel of laughs.
“—you both got tasered, but nobody looks like they did any damage on the way down. She’s taking a little longer to croak out a response, but she gave me a feeble thumbs-up when I took the probes out.” He points. “She’s next to you, and she will be okay.”
