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"I know" She flashed a s it anyway"

He left her hunched over her personal co Sascha power When it became clear he wouldn’tRiley "Keep an eye on her The stalker’s been quiet, but he’s out there"

Rileyto like it"

"Do you care?"

"I care about keeping her alive" A pause "I’ht be?"

"Not yet" Riley’s tone held both frustration and pure focus "Do what you have to do to help DawnSky I’ll take care of Bren"

Judd ended the call, his mind on the killer and the concordant threat to Brenna It made him even more determined to return to the den as soon as possible However, because of the nuht the nextHe was tired but not drained - because Sascha was having to work very slowly, the draw on his psychic strength had been steady but not intense

Many of the DawnSky children were close to catatonic Several had seen their parents being torn up One young boy had been trapped under the body of his dying et his chest carved open He’d survived, hisprocess was going to be a long one, but Judd had pledged hiht into Brenna Not seeing her wasn’t an option He made it to her apartment a few minutes after nine But when he entered her quarters - she’d keyed him in - he found not Brenna, but a note pinned to the new kitchen bench she had put together using a thick plank and precise towers of synthetic bricks Smart

The note was short and very Brenna Left before dawn to go use uards so don’t worry Be back when the work’s done Get so the piece of paper in his pocket, he called through to DarkRiver HQ to confirm It was Clay who answered "She’s in the baseone to keep watch on the healers doing the physical nursing"

Sotheir distance from each other Given their closeness, he’d known it would be difficult "Thanks" Hanging up, he used telekinesis to get rid of the debris by the door, teleporting it discreetly into one of the large recyclers kept in a corner of the underground garage

That done, he decided to bow to Brenna’s order and catch soradation would get But he’d only been asleep for three hours when he woke So Parts of his brain he’d never seen active were sparking in awareness And those sparks tasted like Brennaand terror

He called Clay "Where is she?"

"She left close to two hours ago She was riding with her brothers"

Two hours wasn’t enough time to return to the den unless they’d floored the accelerator "Why did they leave?"

"So okay?"

"Yes" He hung up, still convinced soh to pull Brenna away fro so important, they would have pushed their vehicle to the limit and arrived by now He tried to call Brenna’s cell phone, but no one picked up

Get outside the walls

It was a command from that neakened section of his brain He listened The second he exited the den, those firing sparks turned into a firestor down everything else, he concentrated on following that odd psychic echo The instant he had a link - an inexplicable link - he began running He found theht