Afraid of what Coop’s going to tell me, I shake my head.
“‘How can you remember someone you’ve never met?’”
That startles me to the point of speechlessness. My mind forms the word What? but nothing comes out of my mouth. My tongue is frozen, like the ice water slicing through my veins.
Coop’s still talking. He hasn’t noticed my sudden stillness or the way all the blood has drained from my face.
“So I told him you can’t. It’s not possible. They just remind you of someone you already know. He agreed, but I got the feelin’ he was only placatin’ me because I looked so worried. I hoped that would be the end of it, that maybe he was just goin’ through a rough patch…”
Coop focuses on me. He says quietly, “But then he told me I had to go visit a new client. Said he couldn’t do it himself, tho
