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She ran to catch up "Are you going to be able to cope? Your eyes"

He gave her a sideways glance so full of ance, the wolf in her wanted to snarl "Psy eyes do that when a large power expenditure is involved - I’ the necessary report"

"I should learn to keep my worry to myself where you’re concerned," sheat his back, she decided to concentrate on soo clawed "How did you get me out?"

"Teleportation"

Utter silence in her ry fear

If he could teleport, thatTk Like hi to tell me?" Her heart felt like a block of ice

"Never," he answered in a clipped tone "You’re not rational about Tk-Psy and your prejudice bleeds onto others"

She didn’t quite understand what he was getting at, but she kneasn’t complimentary "This is between you and me, no one else"

He stopped and faced her, perfect Psy beauty and ruthless control "No, Brenna It’s about you, your fa at me and they’ll follow"

"Since when do you care what anyone thinks?"

"Since I realized that Marlee is beginning to exhibit signs of having at least some Tk in her skill set It didn’t show up in her initial tests but that occasionally happens with children who are very strong in another ability But now it’s rising to the surface"

Anger flashed to guilt, then back again "She’s a baby No one in the den would go after a pup!" Her face burned at the idea, but at the sa to rise, inforrasp All she kneas that it had so to do with the connection between Judd and Santano Enrique

He folded his ar to stay a baby If you poison the den against telekinetics, where’s that going to leave her when she grows up?"

Her claws threatened to release and the rage washed away that ethereal piece of knowledge floating in her brain "That’s what you think ofaway, she sprinted the rest of the way to the cabin fueled by red fury It didn’t improve her mood to realize that Judd kept pace He was Psy - he shouldn’t have been able to keep pace But da to one" Fraglass lay scattered on the snow, the air thick with the astringent scent of explosive cheed - the blast had only taken out one discrete section

Going down on his haunches, Judd held out a hand "Do you have a handkerchief?"

"Do I look like I have a handkerchief?"

"Any clean cloth will do"

"Wait" Skirting the debris, she went to a

"Don’t enter," Judd warned "We haven’t checked it for explosives"

She gave hi up thefroed to blow - reached in to pull open a drawer The small kitchen toas in her hand a second later "Here"

"Thank you" Using the soft cloth, he picked up so she couldn’t see

"What is it?" she snapped eneric"

"Maybe the techs can get so off it" SnowDancers y so they could beat the Psy at their own game She used to help with the technical stuffbefore

"Oh," Judd murmured, "I think there’s no er in hand

"You think it was planted?" She caught the scent of Pack in the wind "Packet here so fast"

"I sent Hawke a ns of unauthorized access and suggesting itnized Riley and Andrew Shit

Chapter 16

Brenna averted her eyes as her brothers shifted, having no desire to see the to kill you" were the first words out of Andrew’swith my sister?"