AN: Please read right to the end!

Thirty Six

'Jack…' He said; voice full of remorse. It didn't sound like it was good news. Luke tightened the grip around my waist in preparation for the worst. 'How are you doing?'

'What did you find out?' Jack asked with his voice laced with hope. He was clutching onto straws that his fiancé, the man he's loved for nearly three years now, his Soulfinder, wasn't a backstabbing arsehole.

'He was telling the truth, he had no idea what danger he was putting Grace and Luke in, he had no control over saying anything, he really didn't know until the other day what was going on.' Theo said and we all sighed. That was fine then – Markie wasn't an idiot. 'But he was lying on a few things.'

'What things?' Jack asked, white as a sheet suddenly. I could literally see all the colour from his face fade away.

'Well, it's interesting and confusing because if I ask Grace if she knows who kidnapped her, she will obviously say no as she cannot remember him, but she will be showing me that she lying because her brain knows, the part of the mind that controls the gifts knows, but it's been masked to the conscious so whilst Grace doesn't know, her mind does, so it says she is lying. It's the same with Luke, if I ask him does he know why he attacked Grace a few nights ago, he will say no because he doesn't know why, but his brain does know why and can acutely remember why, but he cannot recall it so Luke isn't lying, but it's reading as a lie,' Theo said, sitting on the bed. I frowned.

'A paradox in your gift?' I asked.

'There's a few in a gift as subjective as mine,' Theo asked, smiling. 'But you did anomalistic psychology, you know the paradoxes.' I nodded – I learnt all the research done trying to find if people like me exist.

'So what was Markie lying about?' I asked him as Jack appeared to lose his ability to speak.

'I asked him if he knows the connection between Nikos and Callus, he said no. But it registered as a lie. Based on what else he told me, I think that he doesn't know the connection between Nikos and Callus because if he did, then the latter times he told them information would also be a lie as he would be doing it to hurt you. But it didn't. He honestly didn't know the connection, but I think somewhere in his mind, either Nikos or Callus has planted something there to make him a rat without him even knowing it. Protecting him and themselves,' Theo said.

'How do we stop it?'

'We find someone to remove it,' Jack sighed, one step ahead of us. 'Until then, he can't know anything about you,'

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Sorry for the short chapter, I just needed to clear some things up. On the last chapter, apart from one, all I had were extremely negative, hurtful and relatively pointless reviews saying my writing is awful, and I should just delete the book, and my uploading is awful and so on. I got told there were too much story line and not enough action, and no one cared about the characters.

I deleted them as they came in, but I got around ten all anonymous and this was extremely upsetting as you can imagine. At the moment, I'm not very well and i'm still in and out of the hospital with kidney issues and this wasn't exactly what i wanted to hear.

I have no issues with constructive feedback and I do appreciate what you are saying, but it really did upset me. I don't know if I want to continue if people are really this dispassionate about this book. That's why the short chapter, mainly to ask you if you want to continue reading? Is this as awful as everyone is saying it is? I don't even know. I wanted to just, give this up, but I owed it to the people who previously read it and thought it was good to ask if they still wanted to read it and if they still thought it was good?

So I suppose that's what I'm asking; do you think it's okay? I decided before this all happened and i put up the wrong chapter by mistake as i was in the hospital when that happened and was just exhausted and pressed the wrong tab, that the original plot went out the window and I knew what I wanted to happen. However, it would skip forward a bit more; the original story would happen over the beginning of the new year (this chapter took place two weeks before Christmas) however, it would take place in the summer months. I don't wanna say too much because spoilers - but what do you think?

I hope you understand what I am trying to say, and thank you.

(Also, side note, whatever happens, this chapter will be deleted and either replaced with one without the authors note or with the rest of the chapter)