The Finisher (Vega Jane #1)

by David Baldacci

He paused, licked his lips. “And then I run ’cause Morrigone saw me.” “What did she look like?” “Like she would kill me if she could get to me. I run harder than I ever run in all my sessions. But she was faster. She was there, before I got out the door, she was. Then that’s when it happened.” “What happened?” “The red light.” “But I thought the red light happened with my grandfather. It was the flames.” “No. The red light … the red light happened to me, Vega Jane.” I thought back to when I had been in the past at Morrigone’s home. After seeing Delph run away. She had seen me, waved her hand and there had been a blue light. I looked at Delph. “Delph, are you sure the light wasn’t blue?” He shook his head. “’Twas red, Vega Jane. ’Twas red. Like the fire.” “And what happened after that?” “My head felt all funny-like. But I was running still. I kept running. And … and then that’s all. Just running.” He turned to me, looking drained by all he had recounted. “Why did you ask if the light was blue?” “Because that’s the color it was when Morrigone waved her hand at me.” He looked nearly petrified by these words. “You were there?” “But I never remembered it, Delph. It was gone until I saw it again.” “But then why did I just remember pieces of it, then? Until now?” “Difference between blue and red light, I guess,” I said,