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The food arrived and Adrian sent it back to be boxed It took the waiter severalthat ti so had been fifty-fifty at best He understood what she was going through and he knehat he would do if there had been anyone capable of stepping between hi what precious little tiht

He tossed cash on the table to settle the bill He collected the bagged food containers with one hand while rubbing at the constriction of his throat with the other He’d given Helena an hour’s head start It was a pitiful concession, but the only one he could in

Adrian hoped she’d had the foresight to have Mark waiting nearby The alternative--that she ht, for even a moment, that he would condone her decision--was too painful to contemplate

If he’d fallen that far in the eyes of his Sentinels, the trials they would face in the days ahead would be insurmountable

CHAPTER 14

Vash wiped the blood fros at the lycan she’d pinned to a pine tree with a silver-coated blade Forced into his hu of his blood he slu shallowly

"You knohose blood this is," she said again, nursing her ownwith the telltale bloodstain on it under his nose "Which one of your packmates took the pilot froasped, gripping the hilt of the sword but too weak to pull it free of the wood behind him

"We’ll be at this all day"

He looked up at her frohter than hers by a few shades "I’ll be dead in an hour And you’ll have nothing"

"You really don’t want to keel over before you telltree" He h at his laripped his chin and forced his head up "I see recognition in your eyes If you’d just spill the name, your pain would be over"

He flipped her the bird "See this, too?"

Vash stared at the lycan with a clenched jaondering if he could possibly be responsible for the death of her mate It was a question that haunted her with every lycan she met She had to believe the responsible party was still alive and out there so for her to exact retribution for the atrocities coainst her beloved Charron "How h"

"He’s young," Sale her with his latest blinding hair color of primary blue It was fortunate for hial quality to his handsome face that transcended whatever crayon hue adorned his head He was also a badass in would have seen hio

She exaony and exhaustion that"How old are you?"

"Suck azes "I’ you, stupid Don’t fuck it up"

The redhead glared "Fifty"

Not him He would have been a five-year-old pup at the time of Char’s death She yanked her blade out of the tree and watched the lycan crumple to the forest floor "Go to the asshole who kidnappedfor him Tell hi and find hian to ripple with the shadow of fur, a last-ditch atte into his lupine forether faster than it would without a shift

"You’re letting hi as he cleaned the lycan blood from his blade

"If he makes it out of the woods alive, he deserves to die another day"

She turned away and began tracking the path the two lycans had taken as they fled from her The two Fallen captains fell into line behind her

A h his sunglasses Vash was a tall woman, but the captain towered above her "Syre wanted us to bring the lycans back to Raceport"

"That one isn’t going to crack, not even for Syre If ant hiive hi it back to civilization are practically nonexistent," Saleri to die to protect whoever it is we’re after He’s going to want to get back and give a heads-up that we’re coht to the one ant If necessary, we’ll help hiive us a trail"

They located the re two miles farther In his pants pocket, they found his wallet Pulling out his Mitchell Aeronautics identification card, Vash sels’ Point I knew Adrian was involved Now maybe we’ll be able to prove it"

"Mr Mitchell"

Adrian paused as he istration desk "Yes?"

The front desk clerk reached for the phone "Mr Gadara would like to see you when you have a ave a curt nod and continued toward the elevators His cell phone beeped with a text e just before the doors opened He pulled it out of his pocket as he stepped inside the waiting car

The principal’s on theto airport to intercept, but may have to follow to CA Will report ASAP