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"I have--"

"--no idea what it did toher hand, he stroked his thumb over the back of it "Leave it here"

"Fine" She squeezed his fingers, a faint echo of the constriction around her heart

She couldn’t say the words, but she could show hih for both of the to have a hard ti as an to land in the field by the training warehouse

The sun had just risen Adrian had insisted Elijah drive Lindsay back to the hotel the night before, arguing that she was too tired to be behind the wheel Since her Prius was a bit se lycan, they’d taken one of the Point’s Jeeps She thought leaving her car behindof hers with hi she’d have to cos have been the sa ti threw the to be all right, El? With the whole Alpha business and now the blood thing yesterdayIs there soreen eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses, she couldn’t get a read on what he"Just stick close to me I’m supposed to keep you safe If I fuck that up, I’ up"

He snorted

"Wanna talk about it?" she offered

"Don’t even want to think about it"

"Okay I’ was chilly and fog hugged the ground, he was dressed like the other Sentinels on the field: in loose pants and leather sandals The women wore sports bras, but otherwise everyone sported bare torsos Just looking at the suit, but she was still just short of having chattering teeth

"I’ve seen you with knives and a shotgun" The Sentinel raked her with a clinical glance "You were fairly skilled with both How are you in hand-to-hand combat?"

Her brow lifted "Seriously? I’uns are for, to keep the inhuh to tearand ht myself--Whoa!"

Lindsay arched back and away fro toward her face The s flesh rent the air She hit the dirt on her ass and stared up ide eyes

Elijah had blocked Damien’s bloith the palm of his hand The twowith the force each exerted in a brutal sort of strong-arm competition

"What the fuck?" she snapped

The twoa step back They turned to her in unison, both extending a hand to help her up She grabbed them both and let them haul her to her feet

"Adrian said you were quick," Damien said calmly, as if he hadn’t just struck out at her with a blow that would have shattered bone "I didn’t get a chance to see you aped at hi in the lycan’s jaw Maybe the test hadn’t been just for her Maybe they’d been testing him as well

The rest of the Sentinels, about ten evenly divided betweenher up She felt like a raw slab of meat tossed to voracious raptors

She rolled her shoulders back

"If you get me squared away," she said to Damien, "Adrian orry less aboutwith We all want that"

The Sentinel held still for aher down She didn’t flinch

Finally, he nodded They ht all want a pound of her flesh, but Da picture Hopefully

Elijah stepped closer to her "I’ anywhere," he proauntlet thron for the others

Daestured for her to join the Sentinels on the field "Let’s go"

She realized Adrian hadn’t been kidding about revising her definition of a long day This one was going to be endless, she knew And it hadn’t even started yet

"Elijah’s blood isfro by the Maybach’s rear passengerand faced his lieutenant "Fuck"

"Yeah" Jason returned his cell phone to his pocket "Not the whole sa to detect it"

The sun glinted off the Sentinel’s golden hair through the panora a halo effect For a moment, hoest they could store blood before the cryo-preservation affected the quality of the sample was ten years Someone had accessed the blood, removed what they needed, and returned the sample

"When we reach the airfield," Adrian said, "I want you to head to Navajo Lake and find the one responsible Only Sentinels are authorized to access the cryogenic storage facility"

"You think it’s one of us?"

"After Helenawho can be certain? I need to know for sure"

Jason sighed "I never thought I’d have any sympathy for what Syre and the Watchers did But it seeer we’re here, the sWell, you know"

Adrian studied his second for a long hness he hadn’t e attention to a lot of things, it seeuilt

"Do you desire, Jason?"

"Not to the extent you do and not for sex My restlessness ste a yoke that can never be put down"