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Gabriel stopped the car in front of Dawn's house and switched off the engine. He sat exhaling deeply before running his hands through his hair. Gabriel felt drained about everything that happened during the past hour.

It was dark already and Dawn sat beside him, her eyes closed in a deep slumber. He cleared his throat and Dawn's eyes jerked open, her gaze darting around wildly almost as if she was expecting someone or something to grab her.

Carefully, he touched her arm and she jerked to face him in panic then calmed when she saw that it was just him.

He wondered if something had happened to her while she was in the woods. He couldn't get his mind off the blood that had been on the dress she had been wearing when he first found her. They had gone shopping for a new dress and also to eat.

They both sat in silence. Gabriel's hands were tensed on the wheel and Dawn could see how stiff his shoulders and neck were.

He had been brooding all through the day.

"Am sorry to have worried you and