Chapter 42

Turning back toward the door, Nathan called again. “Sasha! Jim!”

“Nathan!”

Nathan had expected a replying call but not that one. It came from behindhim, and Nathan knew that Sasha and Jim would have to come through the door. He turned around, looking back into the dark room that shouldn’t exist, and gaped.

“Jim?”

“Youcould be the one to clean up once in a while, you know,” this new figure of Jim said, starting to fold up the rumpled sheets.

“Yeah, yeah,” came a grumbled reply, as anotherNathan entered from a doorway that hadn’t existed a moment ago. “I’m coming, okay?” He started to help Jim fold up the sheets, neither of them seeming to notice the real Nathan watching them

Nathan remembered now why the room looked so familiar. Enid, Oklahoma. He and Jim had squatted in an abandoned house after escaping a run-in with Gabriel.

“Nathan?”