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p.m.
MDT
    Denver,
Colorado
     
    “ Wyatt,” Alex said
softly.
    Sitting on the bed, she
put her hand on his shoulder, and he opened his eyes. He closed
them for a moment and then opened them again. His eyes moved over
her face.
    “ Max?”
    “ It’s Alex,” she smiled at
him.
    “ You are not the love of
my life,” Wyatt closed his eyes.
    “ I’m here,” Max said from
the other side of the bed.
    Wyatt’s head turned toward
the sound of Max’s voice. He smiled at Max and patted the bed for
him to sit down. Max sat down and took Wyatt’s hand. Wyatt looked
back at Alex.
    “ It is uncanny how much
you look alike,” Wyatt said.
    Alex smiled.
    “ Where am I?” Wyatt
asked.
    “ Our basement,” Max
said.
    “ How did I get here?”
Wyatt asked.
    “ What’s the last thing you
remember?” Alex asked.
    “ The phone ringing,” Wyatt
said.
    “ Anything else?” Alex
asked.
    Wyatt shook his
head.
    “ You were activated,” Alex
said.
    “ I . . .
was . . . activated . . .” Wyatt said
slowly. “I guess I remember that. Did you lock me in the
bathroom?”
    “ No, I did,” Max
said.
    “ Why?” Wyatt
asked.
    “ You weren’t exactly
yourself,” Max said.
    “ It’s what you agreed to,”
Alex said.
    “ I did?” Wyatt
asked.
    “ When we went over the
mental training you’d received,” Alex said.
    “ I guess I did agree to
that,” Wyatt sat up against the headboard.
    “ How do you feel?” Alex
asked.
    “ Weird,” Wyatt said.
“Oddly energized and . . . did you give me
sedatives?”
    “ You’ve been asleep most
of the day,” Max said.
    “ I feel giddy, like too
much caffeine, and also down like I’m on sedative,” Wyatt said.
“How did I get down here?”
    “ You agreed to come with
me,” Alex said. “You didn’t recognize Max. You knew me from when we
met before.”
    “ When I was a Ranger?”
Wyatt asked. “With Jesse?”
    “ You kept asking me where
Jesse was,” Alex said. “You’d lost all sense of your life
now.”
    “ God, how horrifying,”
Wyatt said. “I’m so sorry, Max.”
    “ We’ve been worried about
you,” Max said.
    “ Me? I’m fine,” Wyatt
said. “At least I think I’m fine.”
    “ Except for the giddy
feeling,” Alex said. “Have you felt that way before?”
    “ Sure,” Wyatt
said.
    “ Do you remember when?”
Alex asked.
    “ No,” Wyatt said. “Must
have been around the time I met you, Alex, because it’s associated
in my mind.”
    “ Were you in the program
then?” Alex asked.
    “ I . . .
well . . . I don’t know,” Wyatt said. “I don’t think
so, but I might have been. Have you reached the guys on my team?
Were they activated?”
    Alex gave Wyatt a small
smile.
    “ I know that look.” Wyatt
furrowed his brow and looked at Max. “What?”
    Alex shook her head and
looked at Max. He returned Alex’s look. In the way of identical
twins, a silent conversation flowed back and forth between
them.
    “ Don’t you dare!” Wyatt’s
frustrated voice echoed in the small room. Surprised, the twins
turned to look at him. “Don’t shut me out. This is not twin time.
You don’t get to disappear anytime you want! Tell me what
happened!”
    “ Your team was
eliminated,” Ben said from his position near the door. Alex and Max
turned to look at Ben. “Earlier this year, in the spring. They
appear to be a series of random accidents until you look at the
fact that everyone came from the same unit.”
    “ Why didn’t I know?”
Wyatt’s lip curled. His voice held a searing indignation unheard of
in the person Alex knew. “I would have at least gone to the
funerals, visited their families. God, many of the men had young
children. How could you keep this from me?”
    “ I told the twins not to
tell you,” Ben said. “It was hard for them, but we agreed it was in
your best interest.”
    “ We were concerned for
your safety,” Max said.
    “ Why?” Wyatt asked. “Was I
on the elimination list?”
    “ We’re not sure,