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“What about the drunk woman?” Monica had forgotten about her.

“Roger took her to jail in his car. Even he could still smell the alcohol on her breath, and I turned over her open gin bottle for his report. I told him what had happened with her resisting arrest.”

“Good.”

“So what exactly happened between the car crashes, kidnapping, and bank robbers’ capture?” Craig asked.

Andy explained what had occurred.

“I wanted to arrest Denny and his cohorts, but that’s off the table while I’m off work for three weeks.” Monica hated it when she couldn’t resolve a case satisfactorily.

“Right. Once you tell them about it, they’ll have agents headed that way.” Andy sounded like he was glad she wouldn’t be going after Denny and the rest of them anytime soon. “Wedid all we could do and got a lot more information than they had before about the kidnapping situation.”

“Yeah, but I wish we’d been able to bring them in with the money and all the cohorts.”

“Me too.”

“After we eat and before we get to your place, I want to drop by Pierre’s home to check on him.” She had a niggling worry something wasn’t right.

“You…don’t have premonitions about things, do you?” Andy’s brow furrowed with concern.

She glanced at him. “No. Why?”

“Our cousin Rob and his mate, Alicia, both have premonitions. It just seems like sometimes that you seem to know something before it happens.”

“Premonitions.” Thenshefrowned. “Does it ever get them into trouble?”

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Concerned that Monica might be a nonbeliever when it came to Andy’s psychic cousin and Alicia having premonitions, he’d never considered that possibility. That would be hard to deal with unless something happened that proved to Monica that—oh, hell!

Alicia had predicted he would have trouble with Monica in the middle of the blizzard! He hadn’t even given it another thought with all that had happened since then.

“I had breakfast at the tavern with the whole family before I went on patrol the morning of the blizzard, and Alicia had a premonition. She said I would meet up with a woman, polar bear type, who I had met before, but never been intimate with.”

Monica’s eyes widened. “She had a future vision ofus?”

“Well, they’re hazy, and she was trying to grasp what she saw. She’d never met you before, she didn’t know your name, but she said…” He hesitated to say.

Monica's lips curved up slightly. “What?”

Andy cleared his throat. “Well, as I recall, she said you would be angry because you had someplace important to go, and I would be an impediment.”

“Yep,” Craig said at the wheel. “That’s just what Alicia had said.”

For a moment, Monica just stared at them and then laughed. “Boy, she hit the nail on the head. Not that you were an impediment. You were just who I needed in my life. That is just amazing.”

“I thought you would be a motorist caught up in the blizzard and giving me grief for not allowing you to try to reach your destination. Instead, I would have taken you back to White Bear. I never gave it another thought while I was rescuing travelers. Or when you ran into my vehicle.”

“That’s just amazing. I can’t say it enough.”

“Rob and Alicia only envision situations in the past or future, which causes them problems, but only because they see the trouble coming,” Andy said.

“That’s a cool ability. I admit I didn’t really believe in such a thing until I had a case where we were looking for a murder weapon, and this woman called out of the blue, saying it was under a rug beneath a coffee table. I don’t know how everyone missed it. She said she…envisioned it. So we took her comment with a grain of salt.”

“But checked into it and found the gun,” Andy surmised.

“Yes, and then took her in for questioning. No one with psychic abilities had given us clues about anything before. So when she did, our first thought was that she had to have witnessed the crime scene. How else would she have known about it?”

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