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"He has to come to me" Lucas picked up a bottle of water and set it in front of Nate, lobbing another in Clay’s direction "I go Down Below, it’s a concession Send Barker to deliver the e"

"I’ll handle that," Nate said around the cracker he’d bitten into "This works, we get a built-in spy network And to think I argued with you about the Rats e first took control of the city"

Lucas shrugged "Calculated gaured out they were down there, but they didn’t So noe take advantage Let’s have a ht, decide this My place"

"Make it Nate’s," Clay said "I can’t leave Talin alone" And she wasn’t yet trusted enough to be shown the location of their alpha pair’s lair The only reason he’d taken her to Tammy’s house was because it was already well known by a nuuarded round the clock by a rotation of soldiers most visitors never saw

"Fine with randparents tonight anyway"

"Talin can’t attend the " Lucas met Clay’s eyes "You okay with that?"

"Yeah," he said, but the leopard flexed its claws in disagreement The protective animal heart of him wanted her accepted unconditionally by the pack - an impossible task Now, more than ever, DarkRiver had to be careful who it trusted with its secrets Because not only were the Psy watching, so were changeling and human spies "She can stay in one of the upstairs bedroolanced at Nate "So, what did you find out about this kid?"

"Boy’s a smart trouble charge" Amusement danced in his eyes "Tried to steal some fancy women’s perfume"

Clay snapped off a curse "For Tally Idiot kid He should’ve known she’d be on to hiht"

"Yeah well, what kid thinks straight when he has a crush?" Nate shot Clay a sharp glance "I know a feweither"

Clay refused to be baited "Nothing’s sending up red flags, but then it wouldn’t if this is an organized group"

"There is one thing," Nate said "Everyone I spoke to mentioned that the boy had a beautiful voice One man said he felt half hypnotized by it"

"That tells us nothing" Lucas frowned

The leopard in Clay caught a hint of so important but he couldn’t pin it down "It’s a factor to add into theup to leave "By the way, Luc, can you ask one of the soldiers to pick up a package for me?"

The alpha raised an eyebrow "Sure Any special instructions?"

Clay gave hie it" Not yet

Clay had to force hi Tally to him the second he and Nate returned to the house His beast wanted to bite, to taste, to draw her lush Tally scent into his lungs He satisfied hi an arood voice," he said, tracing her features with his eyes "What about the other kids?"

Her gaze clashed with his and he saw her read the depth of his hunger "Mickey couldn’t even do karaoke," she said, cheeks flushing as she bit down on her lower lip He gripped the back of her chair to keep frooes that theory" Nate collapsed into a chair beside his mate

Tamsyn kissed him in affectionate welcome "Talin’s done profiles on the kids, but I haven’t hadin the autopsy photos I just can’t figure out what"

Clay was about to look down at those photos when his attention was caught by the lists Talin had made, the attributes she’d noted beside Mickey’s and Diana’s names The one for Iain was alhts to known hobbies Exciteun

"What do you see?" Talin leaned into hiht