No such luck. Of course not. When in the past year and a half had his luck stretched that far?

And of all things, what Steve had seen was his roundabout suicide attempt--his escape from that terrible curse and the man who'd put it on him. What a terrible thing to be shared. He could only imagine what the man thought about him after seeing it.

But if he had to have this conversation, he wasn't going to be terribly cooperative about it. He was going to dance around the main point until he absolutely had to confront it. That had been a very dark point in his life.

"If you saw that, you know I didn't actually shoot her."