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"Why?" Betrayal laced her voice "You were ht business deal He gave me Rush at a real low price Made me rich" Dieter didn’t try for Brenna’s syet none "All he wanted was a favor now and then"

"Like picking me up on the way to class," Brenna whispered, tone raw "Like telling rave and ask you to shoot Andrew, too?" Her next move was so fast, Judd almost missed it She sh to cause unconsciousness but not death The alar up, she wiped the blood off her -Liu," she said to the two soldiers who’d stopped in the doorway, "take him to the lockup"

Judd blocked the doorway "I’ll take hirowled "You’ll kill hiet that" Judd could almost taste the s to Tim’s family" She stepped around the body to face him "Tieling justice

But Judd wasn’t changeling Dieter’s heart pulsed in his psychic hold Just one - Brenna gripped the front of his shirt "Stop"

He stared at her "No" His , was drawn to the taste of it

She kissed him, bit down hard on his lower lip Dissonance crashed into hi with the sensory pleasure, the iron-rich taste of blood, and the hunger for violence It scrah When she drew back, he was still hoht We need to knohat he knows I’ll take him"

This ti over his shoulder and strode out, Elias by his side The otherlow in his throat until Judd dumped Dieter in the lockup and secured the door "Does he need a healer?" Judd wanted hi

Elias’s eyes were flat "He needs to be dead, but I’ll call Lara It ht be a while if there were injuries in the nursery"

Judd had forgotten the alarm in the euarding him? I knoas your friend"

"I want to tear him to pieces" His claere out "But I won’t let hi his two-faced heart fro that, Judd left to return to Brenna He found the apart at Brenna’s cuts, while Hawke asked her questions and her brothers swore in low, continuous bursts Outside, so to repair the door he’d busted He heard Sing-Liu’s cool voice giving the orders

"Judd" Brenna’s face lit up the second she saw hirabbed it anyway Damn the consequences "The nursery?" he asked Lara

"Looked worse than it was," she said "No kids hurt but that was by sheer luck If a pup had crawled into the doorhen it came down - " She shook her head

"A diversion," Judd said "He had to get D’Arn away fro himself up about it" Riley blew out a breath "But Dieter knehat he was doing - I would’ve taken off for the nursery, too Bren can look after herself, pups can’t"

Brenna shot her big brother a s her attention to Judd "I was telling Hawke how it happened I left to grab my co here" Her voice shook, not with fear but anger "He smirked at irl He had that injector in his hand" She pointed to the s crashed to the floor, the tough plasglass cover splintering

As everyone else turned toward the sound, Brenna squeezed his hand The warning worked He pulled his rage under control, but it was an uncertain control at best "When did you remember about the van?"

"That smirk" She almost spit out the words "It made me want to kill and then I knehy"

Hawke kicked aside a piece of debris on the floor - a large splinter from the door "No wonder you blocked it out One of us served you up to die" His eyes had gone pure wolf

"Yes" Her tone softened, grew sad "He killed Tiave me upand for what? Money"

"I’ll find out what he knows" Hawke glanced at Judd "Can you help?"

He thought of how Dieter’s heart had felt in his hands, so slick, so crushable "Give ht now"

"It’ll take hie Brenna tells entleness "I’ve got to go stitch him up now"

Haith Lara Judd looked at Drew and Riley "Give us a few minutes"