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Santos’s face becaerous er issue"

"Is Shine behind the them off the street, but we are responsible"

Chapter 24

"Why?" Talin whispered "Why would you hurt the the children" The otherfinished hisact Soldiers ate when they could "We’re responsible because we’re too good at identifying the that inforure out one thing "From what I know, Shine has a lot of political power - why didn’t you push harder with Enforcement?"

"It’s not a secure syste drink of water "We chose Max because he has a natural shield against Psy interference and integrity There aren’t many like hiood in this case"

"Why?" Talin insisted "No one else is doing anything to find these kids"

"On the contrary, we’ve been trying from the start" His skin pulled taut over his cheekbones "But our ene That’s e’ve stopped recruiting"

"I wondered about that," Talin murmured "You haven’t sent out street tea anyto protect the ones already in our system, but you know these kids Most of theue "What can you tell us?"

"They’re being taken because of their abilities"

"We already knew that," Talin responded

"We think the Psy are taking them"

Clay kept his face expressionless in spite of that unexpected bit of news "Why?"

"These children represent the best huhtest stars in our arsenal - a potential threat to Psy power" He nodded at Talin "Your ability to re you ever see is alh as far as that went, but Clay didn’t buy it Neither, it seeifted kids around the world Heck, a lot of the Why take only Shine children?"

"Because" - Santos’s tone turned bitter - "we’ve painted bull’s-eyes on their backs"

An answer that told theht "Why the interest in DarkRiver?"

"You have Psy connections" The other man leaned back in his chair but continued to keep both hands in view "Your alpha is mated to a cardinal Sascha Duncan’s mother, Nikita, is a Councilor"

"That relationship has been ter no secrets Nikita had er considered Sascha her daughter

"You also have Faith NightStar, the strongest F-Psy in the world She has ongoing links with the PsyNet"

"She subcontracts her services" Clay shrugged "She’s not in the Net" The biggest information archive in the world, it could only be accessed by those Psy uplinked to it Sascha and Faith had both cut that link on their defection to DarkRiver

"That doesn’t mean she’s not in touch with others who are uplinked" He paused but Clay re factor is that DarkRiver has shown itself both capable of, and willing to, go up against the Psy The foundation’s backers believe youus mount a search and rescue operation for the children"

"You had to have followed reed to help," Talin said, cutting through the bullshit in her direct way "You could’ve told us your theories in a simple call"

Santos’s lips curved at her arch reference to the fact that he hadn’t given the worth shit "I wanted to express the foundation’s support of DarkRiver’s actions You will have our total cooperation"

"We want to put people inside Shine to weed out the spy," Clay said

"We can’t allow that, but we’re taking all possible measures to corner the culprit"

"Nice definition of total cooperation," Talinwe don’t already know and you caance out to play "Is that right?"

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