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He didn’t answer her ihn later "The so on the edge of Napa It specializes in viticulture"

"Most students and staff are hu," Lucas pointed out "What would a Psy be doing there? They’re not anic assets"

"I think she’s some kind of technician Don’t wineries have sophisticated te systehn’s hands dropped to rest on her hips - an act of ht "Not that itto be there on that date and at that tiets to her"

"Why are we cleaning up a Psy ain?" Clay’s deep voice "Faith’s not in any danger The killer and possible victi care of this?"

"Clay!" Sascha looked shocked "We’re speaking about a woet about it, just that we let those responsible tidy it up"

"And what if they don’t?" Faith asked softly, staring into that harshly masculine face that was so without hn’s ani very dark in the leopard, soood and evil

She had a knowing al One day soon he’d have to decide which side of that line he wanted to be on "What if she simply disappears like the others I heard about on the Net? Will you be able to sleep at night, your conscience clear?" Because he wasn’t quite gone yet, was still on the good side of the line By a bare fraction

Clay raised an eyebrow "So we take this guy out Great What about the next and the next and the next?"

Faith didn’t knohere her answer came from "Some futures we can’t see, some lives we can’t save, but this one we can Let’s discuss the rest later"

"There’s a bigger proble his feet up on the railing "If neither victi, it falls within Enforceht to enforce Law"

Faith had forgotten that "We could let the authorities know"

"Sa the Council" Clay snorted "Unless you’re ready to hand over the whole fucking hn went utterly still around her "Watch it, cat"

Faith didn’t understand all of as going on, but she could read the aggression in the air She shifted to wrap an arhn’s waist He didn’t take his eyes off Clay

After a tense ave a slow nod "I was out of line" A pause "She reh the statehn had turned hostile toward Clay because of his rudeness to her War that, she didn’t want to be the cause of Vaughn fighting with his pack

"About Enforce her hand under his T-shirt to lie pal away from Clay at last

"I know a couple of cops we can trust," Clay replied, surprising her "If they al"

"And the killer will be out by nightfall, sprung by the Council He’ll disappear into the Net, never to be seen again" Sascha’s voice was grim "They’ll either kill him to ensure no one learns of the breakdown in the Protocol, or if he’s one of theirs gone rogue, attempt to reinstate control"

Lucas dropped his feet to the porch and leaned over to kiss his ers around his biceps, but Lucas’s eyes were narrohen he turned back to theer was suddenly alive in the air Faith happened to be looking at Sascha and saw the other cardinal breathe deeply several tie aer level dropped

"I can take care of hi about the weather "Even from a distance"

Faith’s stomach curdled "No We can’t coht to do precisely that, but that had been in the red-hot heat of anger She was no stone-cold killer

"You have a better idea?" Judd asked, so very much like insolence in his otherwise icy tone

"Back off," Vaughn said, in a very quiet voice She could hear a difference froerous this ti "You’re here because you helped save Sascha’s life, but that only goes so far"

The other o far at all"

Faith was a babe at understanding emotion, but it seeht What could possibly inspire that kind of death wish? Even if Judd was an Arrow, Vaughn was a jaguar

"Wait, I do have an idea"

Everyone looked at her

"Incapacitate him" She stared at Judd "Tie his mind up in mental ropes he’ll never be able to break"

"Whather