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Jon decided he’d have to kill the bastard before he escaped "Why do you think I care?"

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Chapter 29

Teijan aiting for Clay above ground, looking sleek and well-groomed, a small man with a solid aura of power "Hello, Clay"

"Teijan" He could still taste Talin on his lips, tart and familiar It calmed his possessive instincts, but didn’t et medical attention until they found the boy "Wanted to ask - you know anything about a ht?"

"The cop?" A spark of pure surprise lit Teijan’s inky black eyes "A group of my people took exception to the event" Hisline "Most of them know about bullies They scared off the perpetrators, called the para?" He knew the Rats would’ve disappeared Down Below before Enforcement arrived, wary of a law that often treated them like trash Yet they had saved a cop’s life, with no hope of gain for themselves He’d make sure Max knew that

"No" He spread out his hands "It was dark and they are hus looked like hired muscle"

Clay had expected as s, he or she wasn’t anyone with access to the kind of power the Council wielded - otherwise Max would’ve been dead by now, his brains turned to jelly But the fact that this was happening in Nikita Duncan’s city, without her apparent involves - otten in the PsyNet "So," he looked to Teijan, "why the call?"

"The boy," Teijan said, "one of the children is adamant she saw him disappear off the street"

His leopard sat up in interest "She saw hiet snatched?"

"No, she saw hi notion with his fine-boned hand "Poof Likein Clay stilled It didn’t make sense - if the kidnapper was a teleportation - capable telekinetic, he or she would have had no need to hire hu could crush a human body with little effort

"We didn’t believe her at first" Teijan frowned "But then I realized why the picture of the boy disturbs me and mine soHe’s not Psy He’s more other than anyone I’ve ever before rasp the enorht not have told her the truth, but he’d given her what she needed to find that truth herself

She was standing there stunned when the door opened and Clay walked in "You’re not going to believe this," she said, tugging hie in his tone scraped over her spine like a fine nail

She glanced up, belatedly noticing the furious expression on his face It was obvious it wasn’t directed at her "What’s the matter?"

"You first" His hand closed around her ponytail and he stroked the length through his fist Then he did it again, top to botto And that relaxed her Skin privileges, she thought with an inward s over the table, very aware of hies

"Family trees," he murrasp but a second later, she felt a tug as he recaptured it The caress was strangely soothing "Looks like Shine ay beyond the ht in Talin’s eyes Her intelligence blazed hot and darinned "It’s as if they were tracing the families, not the individual children"

"Shine doesn’t take on whole families"

"I’m not so sure Look" She tapped a particular record "One kid in this three-sibling fa monitored The only reason the other tere left alone is because they have other scholarships"

"That can’t be the case with all of them"

"No But if you look carefully at the charts, you’ll see that a lot of the unfunded or untraced ones are actually stepsiblings They’re following bloodlines"

Clay stopped sliding Talin’s hair through his fist, though he kept the srip "That explains a lot"

Lines for you already knohat I’ up her head Then he kissed her A short, fleeting brush of lips on lips that tantalized the cat, teased and teerous But not yet He still had enough control to pull back "I have suspicions, no proof"<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>