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room. D.J. didn't bother to glance up before she answered.
"You were right. But if you knew he could take care of himself, then why did you send me out there?"
"You're such a practical girl. I might say Christian could take care of himself, but I knew you'd never believe me until you saw him in action."
"Since you know so much, why don't you let me in on who's trying to kill him and why? It would save us all a lot of trouble."
"I'm afraid I can't, dear. As I told you before, Raphael tells me things on a need-to-know basis."
"Well, I think the identity of a killer falls in the category of things we need to know."
"What you think and what is the truth are two very different things. I can warn you of imminent danger to yourself, but I often don't know of such danger until the second before it happens."
"What about danger to McCall? You warned me he was in trouble."
"I'll only have a premonition if danger to him will represent a danger to you."
D.J. paused at her door and drew the keycard from her pocket. "What was the danger to me tonight?"
"If Christian hadn't disabled those men, if they'd hurt or killed him as they'd planned to, their next stop was this hotel room to take care of you."
"Me?" D.J. paused in the act of putting the key-card into the lock. This time she did glance upward toward the sound of Josie's voice, though Josie was nowhere to be seen. Now that the angel mentioned

 
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