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Lindsay Where are you?
"I’ve always believed your ability to feel human emotion is an asset to us," Damien said
Beside hied "I’d be lying if I said I’ve never found arestlessly, Adrian took several moments to decide what to say "Perhaps we should recall all the Sentinels to the Point Together, reflection th we seek"
"I take strength from you, Captain," Malachai said with quiet conviction
Hoas that possible, Adrian wondered, when he didn’t have any strength to give? He didn’t know if there were hidden reserves left within him, he felt so tapped out
Lindsay Where are you?
The vein pulsed and throbbed with life, puh thebody
Lindsay heard every beat of the woman’s heart as if she had a stethoscope to her ear Her canines elongated and her e to feed
Nearby, Syre sat on the love seat with his elbows resting on his parted knees and his forehead in his hands His face was downturned, but Lindsay knew his gaze was bleak He was grieving, his pain a palpable thing in the hotel rooerator at the wet bar, guarding the e her co, as if he ht find his sister in her, or some othertable and waited for the red-haired murderess to ers of her right hand spun her cell phone on the tabletop The red light blinking above the screen told her she had unheard e to listen She was too far gone with hunger, like a junky jonesing for a fix She was shaky and nauseous Her body craved sustenance, but her sto blood
"It’s all in your head," Torque had told her just that"Have a taste and you’ll see"
He was kind and considerate to her, as was Syre, but she felt like an imposter As comfortable as she’d felt with Adrian, she felt equally aith the vampires They didn’t know she’d spent thetheir kind They didn’t know she wasn’t going to stop until she took out Vashti
That slaying would mark the end of her life, she was pretty sure They’d kill her then and that would be a blessing There was nothing left for her anymore Her parents were dead, she had to suck on veins to live, and Adrian would hate her if he saw her He’d killed Shadoe--the worace for--rather than see her beco the open hallway circling the inner atriu, too
The maid hurried out of the suite as if the hounds of hell were breathing down her neck She couldn’t fail to feel the tension in the room Lindsay wondered what the woreat afternoon snack
As the door began to swing closed, it was suddenly thrust inward again Vash strode in on four-inch-heeled boots as if she were queen of the world
Lindsay felt bloodlust and aggression explode inside her Her nostrils flared, her eyes zeroing in on the wo forever to kill Her senses were so powerful now they overwhelrow into them She’d be permanently out of co hair over her shoulder and shot a glance at Lindsay She froze when their gazes nation
"Aw, shit," she muttered, the instant before Lindsay launched herself across the roo Syre, who darted up and out of the ith i around them like a taco Sandwiched in the ular With canines extended, Lindsay bit deep Her fist pierced the cushions of the love seat, her hand searching for a length of broken wood fro voice
The vaara Falls--Vash’s history, carried in her Fallen blood The life force both Sentinels and the Fallen needed to survive
Lindsay released her in a rush, stu backward to sit heavily atop the coffee table She wiped her bloodied mouth with the back of her hand and felt the roo and the surprise of discovering Vash’s innocence
"It wasn’t you!" She gripped her pounding skull, feeling dizzy and disoriented by the onslaught of eons of recollections that didn’t include her , one hand pressed to her spurting throat "That’s your second free pass, you crazy bitch Next time you come at me, it’ll cost you"
"Whatever," Lindsay ain facing the task of finding a needle in a haystack Subsiding on blood for years while she did so held no appeal She’d become the monster she hunted, and while she searched for her mother’s killer it would be the sickest hypocrisy to do to others what had been done to her "DoA," Vash said, just before nailing Lindsay in the head with a roundhouse kick
Lindsay never saw the carpeted floor rushing up toon his bed and freed his wings, stretching the his shoulders He was heading toward his bathroom for a shohen a knock ca, he faced Oliver, who looked as grim as every other face he’d seen over the last three days "Yes?"
"You’re going to want to deal with this, Captain"
The graveness of Oliver’s tone renewed the painful tautness in Adrian’s spine "What is it?"
"There are va, Adrian exited onto the deck and flew to the end of the driveway, setting down just in front of the wrought-iron barrier The guardhouse was empty, his property devoid of lycan presence His solitary approach was reckless and foolhardy, displaying how little value he placed on his own life at thewaited out on the main road, its nose already pointed back down the hill Torque stood on the other side of the gate, along with Raze
"Where are your dogs, Adrian?" Raze growled The massive vampire’s lip curled as he surveyed the view frolasses
"Don’t need them to deal with you"
Torque rocked back on his heels "I’ve got a present for you"