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?Unless whoever kidnapped her is just that good,? Jason added.

?What are you talking about?? Hector said derisively. ?Helen?s a

full-on monster now with her lightning. I don?t care who this evil

twin is, no one is that good.?

?Twin,? Lucas repeated, thinking. ?It could be that simple. She?d

have the same lightning, the same strength, and a lot more

experience.?

The brothers looked at him as he got down on his hands and

knees and examined the floor. He reached under an end table and

came up with a drained hypodermic needle.

?That rules out Helen going willingly. Whoever she was, she

came prepared. And she must have known about the cestus and

how it works, or she never would have been able to penetrate

Helen?s skin,? Lucas said, his breath catching only slightly when he

said her name.

He handed the needle to Jason and dropped back down to examine

the floor one last time, in case he missed something. When he

was satisfied, he stood up and looked through his cousins instead

of at them, still thinking. Then he went to the windows by the door

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and looked out at the raging storm. Lucas watched mini mudslides

slosh down Helen?s driveway and out into the street and knew that

any path Helen might have left would be long gone.

?Was there anything else in Cassandra?s vision?? Lucas asked

hopefully.

?The last thing she said was that she thought Helen would still be

safe tomorrow morning,? Jason replied, shaking his head doubtfully.

?Cass had a brief flash of Helen standing in a window that

looked like some kind of hotel on Nantucket, but she couldn?t be

sure.?