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"Because I only have experience at being a victim?"
The metallic scent of blood rose from his shredded flesh as he folded his arms "You’re too blinded by your own emotions to do Timothy justice This isn’t about you"
She opened herhe was but shut it as quickly Ad the truth wasn’t an option - it would sound insane, the ravings of a broken et your wounds tended," she said instead "The s" She orried about how deep Tai had gouged hi to ad tone "I’ll escort you to your roo, she strode off, able to feel his gaze on her every step of the way until she turned the corner It was teer she wore like a shield, but she waited until she was safely back in her roo in "I did see it," she told the walls, terrified
The flesh parting under the blade, the blood pouring, the pallor of death, she’d seen it all It had left her a tre, shaken mess, but she’d found cohtliest of forms
Judd ensured Brenna was in her quarters before he returned to the crio Then he made his way to his own room Once there, he stripped and showered to reht - the scent would only draw attention to hiht, he needed to be invisible
When he stepped out, he didn’t bother to look in a h his hair and left it at that A part of his th Another part diser a member of the Psy race’s most elite army The Psy Council had sentenced his entire fahter, Marlee; and Sienna and Toby, the children of his dead sister, Kristine - to the living death of rehabilitation
If they hadn’t defected, they would have had their minds wiped clean, their brains destroyed until they weren’t amble to come to the wolves He and Walker had expected to die, but they had hoped for mercy for Toby and Marlee Sienna, too old to be a child, too young to be an adult, had decided to take her chances with the wolves rather than face rehabilitation
But the SnowDancers hadn’t killed the adults on sight As a result, he now lived in a world where his old lifedressed, he pulled on his pants, socks, and boots first Abare feet was a far greater disadvantage It was as he was pulling on a shirt that the expectedthe shirt buttons undone, he read the encrypted words, translating theet confire the second after reading it His next act was to push up the long sleeves of his black shirt and wrap plain cotton bandages around his forear skin Brenna would have been very surprised to see how fast he healed
His mind went over thewith a copycat The cuts had been superficially si more Where Enrique had taken pride in the precision hich he mutilated his victims’ bodies, this killer had hacked rather than sliced Indigo had also confirmed that no Psy scent had been found at the scene The final deciding factor was that Santano Enrique wastorn to pieces by wolf and leopard claws
There was no need for Brenna to worry that her torrave Of course that was Psy logic at work and she was indisputably a changeling More to the point, she didn’t know that Judd been present at Enrique’s execution and, by extension, her rescue He had no intention of changing that Because, while hee the healing sessions - where he’d "lent" his psychic strength to Sascha as she worked to repair the fractures in Brenna’s e of his involvement
I’m not a baby anymore
No, she wasn’t And he wasn’t her protector He couldn’t be - the closer he got to her, the more he could hurt her Silence had been invented for those like him - the brutal killers and the viciously insane, those who had turned the world of the Psy into a blood-soaked hell so bad, Silence had beco, he becaun with no safety switch That hy he was never going to do what Sascha had done and end the Silence in histhe world safe fro on a black jacket identical to the one Tai had slashed, he slid the phone into his pocket It was time to leave the den
He had a bomb to build
Chapter 3
Kaleb Krychek, cardinal Tk and the newest member of the Psy Council, terminated the call and leaned back in his chair, hands steepled in front of hiible use of his telekinetic abilities, "find allthe task would take her several minutes, he mentally reviewed the call Jen Liu, hts clear
"We have a reen eyes unblinking "I’ to jeopardize that However, I’ues on the Council We’re still paying for their last decision - Faith NightStar’s prices have alain what it lost"
The NightStar Affair, as that particular political debacle was now called, had come about immediately prior to Kaleb’s ascension to the Council Faith NightStar, a powerful foreseer, had chosen to drop from the PsyNet and into the arms of one of the DarkRiver cats Two Councilors hadher life at risk and alienating not only her fahtStar Group, but also all the businesses who relied on Faith’s predictions Businesses such as the Liu Group<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>