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"Who’s in there?"
"Aside from the corpses of the two infected va preceded a shout "Let me out of here!"
They turned a corner into a short hallway that ended with a single door A h the broken , arowled "Either killcorpse!"
"He was a corpse," Siobhán whispered "I shot him myself after he bit Malachai"
Adrian didn’t take his eyes off the vamp in front of him "He’s made a miraculous recovery"
"But the other one is still dead?"
"So is the one I caught Turned into an oil slick, I was told" He contely cured vampire with narrowed eyes, the te as he considered the possibilities
"One of these things is not like the others," he estion of Sentinel blood?"
Siobhán made a choked noise "Shit"
Yeah, deep shit
"Are you feeling better?" Elijah asked as he watched Lindsay exit her adjoining bedroo on his laptop and trying not to feel like everything was closing in on hi the wariness hich the Sentinels atching hiaze of every lycan he crossed paths with Everyone aiting for him to make a move, one that would rip apart the well-oiled systenorant One side wanted to defuse his perceived pohile the other wanted hi
"Dude" Lindsay shook out her wet curls with her hands "Did you get that vitahness"
"Good grief" She stared at hierated shock "Did you just"No"
"I think you did"
Elijah looked back at his laptop screen He liked her And after the one out of her way to save his sorry hide, he thought of her as a friend He didn’t have too many of those, which hy he’d been speechless when she’d said they were friends So her, he had stopped thinking of her as just a principal and started thinking of her as just Lindsay He wastis or expectations She was crazy and fun, and blunt to a fault She was just goofy enough to reveal that she hadn’t socialized roup of people she trusted He wondered if she’d ever shared her gifts with anyone else Shit, why did she have the question mark, and everyone wanted a piece of her And it was his job to ot any
She reappeared afrom a bottle of some neon-colored liquid that boasted its nutritional content "Ya knowI feel like I got run over by a freight train while suffering a hangover"
The Sentinels had worked her hard all , so hard Elijah had had to step in a couple times They hadn’t liked that, but they knew Adrian would back him up As for Lindsay, she’d put up with the brutal pace without protest, taking the occasional dirty hit and brushing it off
The Sentinels clearly didn’t understand the significance of Adrian’s display of sexual dominance the day before, or they would have been more careful with her Perhaps even Adrian didn’t understand the entirety of the driving need he’d felt to clairavated by her atteet away Fe the beast by denying him his mate wasn’t the smartest idea Elijah had once assumed it was the demon in the lycan bloodline that made them so primal with their , just in case A smart els were capable of the saelic contribution to the lycan genetic est source of that near violent covetousness
Regardless, the lycans had gotten Adrian’s e loud and clear Unfortunately, Elijah feared the awareness of Lindsay’s importance to the Sentinel leader only made her more vulnerable Those hispered about rebellion had been looking and waiting for a chink in Adrian’s inviolate power, Elijah realized, and Lindsay was it
Fuck He scrubbed both hands over his face How had hehad Micah been filling the others’ heads with the pipe drea," Lindsay said drily, setting her e would recycle it She was soer, he’d noticed
He needed to be hunting dohoever had set him up, but he couldn’t leave Lindsay, and there was no one he could trust with her
She went to the closet and pulled out heraround with an arsenal slung over her hip "I need to go out"
He pushed back from the desk "For what?"
"Seriously tacky touristy Disney and California stuff Hats, sweatshirts, shot glasses, et cetera"
His lack of excitehed
"I have to get my dad stuff he’ll roll his eyes over," she explained "But, lucky for you, on’t be gone too long I’ve got an interviewee co in at three"
Elijah looked at the clock and noted it was one He had to hand it to her--she’d taken a beating all ht?"
"I need to get my car from the Point, but otherwise you’re free to do whatever"
He nodded "Good Thanks"
Once she was settled in the hotel for the night, he could talk to Rachel by phone He had to get some idea of how pervasive Micah’s rebellion plans were Elijah knew he had to rip that weed out by the root as soon as possible--a damn near impossible task when he ay from the rest of the pack irlfriend?" Lindsay asked him as they exited the elevator on the bottom floor They usually took the stairs--all seventeen floors--but she was too wiped out to need the exercise today
"Too co, too ht? Or don’t you?"
His gaze darted to hers, only to find her dark eyes laughing
"Made you look," she teased
He snorted in lieu of laughing, but it was a close race between the two
Lindsay stopped abruptly just outside the revolving doors leading to the awning-covered bellhop and valet area Bellardeners put the finishing touches on the flower bed fra the crescent-shaped driveway Life ason as usual, but the sudden stiffening of Lindsay’s posture and her intense focus was like a dog on point, signaling the proximity of prey nearby