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holding and started pushing himself out of their hiding spot. “All right. You can come out of there now.”
    He pushed the cart away for her and offered his hand to her to help her up. She ignored it, using the shelves as a handhold instead. “Do you mind explaining that to me now? Do you?”
    The tone of her voice must have been even harsher than she realized. He took a single step back from her, raising his hands palms out. “I’m sorry, Brianna. Really, really sorry. But they wouldn’t have left you alone. Not after they saw you with me. I couldn’t just leave you there.”
    “So you took us to a library?” She wanted to yell it at him, but she was keeping her voice down. Those men might still be close enough to hear her if she shouted.
    And they were in a library, after all.
    “It was the best place I could think of.”
    “Seriously? Wouldn’t a police station have been a better place? You didn’t think that maybe they’d find us in here?” She thought about that. Leaning her hips against the stacks, folding her arms under her breasts, she took a moment to settle herself. “And how come they didn’t find us, anyway?”
    “It was the books,” he explained. “It’s too loud in here for them.”
    “Excuse me? How is it too loud in a place where there aren’t even any people who could have helped us if the two crazy men had found us hiding behind a freaking book cart!”
    He smiled at her as she said it, and it made her furious that he found this amusing. “Stop laughing at me, Jake. I’m serious! You’re the one who has men chasing after him. And you’re the one that got me caught up in this…this…whatever it is! So no more stalling, no more promises of explaining yourself to me later. Confession time is now.”
    She saw him chew on the inside of his cheek in thought. Then he stuffed his hands into his pockets again and nodded stiffly, like he’d made some hard decision. “Those two weren’t looking for us in here. Not in the strictest sense. They were listening for us. They could hear a pin drop in the middle of a desert. That’s how they knew we were outside your hotel before they saw us. They could hear my heartbeat.”
    She didn’t understand. “Your heartbeat?”
    “Yes. My heartbeat. And that’s what they were listening for in here. Well, mine and yours.”
    “But they couldn’t hear it.” She couldn’t help the sarcasm that slipped into her words.
    “No, they couldn’t.”
    “Because of the books.”
    “Right. Those men, they soak in information from any outside source. Books, television, computers. They hear it in their heads. So, take them into a place like this, and it’s like a thousand people shouting at them all at once. They can’t hear anything else. And they’ve forgotten how to use their eyes.”
    “Well. Isn’t that lucky for us.”
    “Sarcasm’s like a second language for you, isn’t it?” He tried for a smile as he shifted his weight from foot to foot nervously. “I’m telling you the truth, Brianna. You wanted it, and I’m giving it to you. I just don’t know how much you’re ready to hear.”
    She closed her eyes and tried to think. A few breaths later, she still hadn’t figured anything out. “Okay. Pretend this isn’t making any sense to me, because it’s not. Can you please explain to me exactly who it is that was chasing us, who can hear books and heartbeats? And use little words for me. Okay? Who exactly were those two?”
    He stared at her, his face suddenly very, very serious. He seemed to suddenly age in front of her for a moment as though he’d been caring a terrible secret for too long. She could tell he didn’t want to answer her, but he did it anyway.
    “Demons,” he said to her. “They were demons.”

Chapter 5
    Demons. He said…demons?
    Brianna did what any rational young woman would do when she found herself alone in a dark library with someone talking about demons.
    She ran away.
    Keeping the cart between herself and