Page 38 of Oracle Returns: Time will Stop

When he gasped, she set his arm free, and he was pulled back to the here and now.

And what he said shook them to their cores.

“Oh, Jesus.”

Julian needed to know.

“What?”

He shook that off because he was given flashes of each crime scene. Tori stabbed herself in the belly, twisting the knife to destroy her children.

And bled out.

Hart drove his car into a wall, smashing it all around him, and Ivy, who was in the back.

Then, Julian ate his gun, overwhelmed by what he’d done. Only, he took his children’s lives too.

“She didn’t lie, and it was far worse. She spared you the details,” he said. “By coming here first, instead of giving us time to get Genesis taken care of, he took her first in Utah. Then, he came here because when your wife was there, she piqued his interest. Psychics can feel psychics, if that’s part of their gift. He would have killed her next. Then, he would have preyed on everyone else until we were all picked off. Ending with me, so he could get to Avalon.”

Julian didn’t like that.

Not.

At.

All.

“Okay, well, scratch that,” he said. “I’m glad you drove the bus here,” he said. “Tell us how we can help. I don’t want to lose Genesis or Lucian. We’ve already lost Wynter.”

Nate took over when his wife leaned into him.

“Like I said, we found a name. It’s Thomas Vanderbilt,” he said. “We can start there. Does it sound familiar?”

Lucian nodded.

Yeah, they knew the family.

“Both Ridge and I have dealt with the family. Thomas Vanderbilt is a business owner here. His family owns a lot of buildings in town. His father was also a Thomas. I believe this guy is the third. I will say that together, we don’t like dealing with him.”

That was something odd to say.

Lucian was a powerhouse in the business world. He wasn’t only an attorney, but he owned businesses. He and Ridge bought and sold places left and right.

“Why?” Nate asked. “If you don’t mind me asking.”

He was honest.

“He gave me the willies. I know that’s weird, but when we had a meeting months ago, he was eyeing up Ridge, and it made him and myself uncomfortable.”

Julian was curious.

“Eyeing up?”

Lucian didn’t know how to explain it without letting the big, ugly cat out of the bag. Even then, he didn’t like anyone checking out Ridge.

He was his.

Period.