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Clay’s beast growled inwardly at Judd’s reference to the Psy ability to kill with a single focused mental strike "Psy can’t strike at us if they’re unconscious, correct?"
"Yes That is," he ah to take you out in the first place Not every Psy is Anything below a Gradient 5, you’d survive"
"Same problem," Lucas pointed out "He loses consciousness, we lose the chance to extract infors in the apartment when I checked it out earlier," Clay told them "Switch your earpieces to frequency two"
"And here I thought you didn’t listen when I talked about the tech stuff" Despite the lighthearted words, Dorian’s amazement was evident "So, we listen, let Larsen and his buddies tell us e need to know Might work unless they choose to telepath Telepaths, hell - Judd, they going to be able to pick us up?"
"I don’t think this Larsen is sh to run a telepathic scan But if he does, we’ll be fine as long as we’re not too close Most Psy only have the ability to scan a few h to intercept when necessary" Clay scanned the area with a predator’s cool , one the front, two on either side"
"Dorian - you’re the sniper," Lucas said "Get up high, set up your rifle, and aim it at theof Talin’s apartment If we need a shot, we’ll let you know"
Dorian was already
Lucas touched his earpiece a few htline into the "
The three of the, one Psy assassin and two leopards who kne to turn to shadows in the dark
"I’m in position" Lucas’s calm voice
"So a with near-Psy efficiency by then, his emotions contained until he needed their violent force He was certain he would tonight
Because he had no doubts whatsoever that thein the wind, tasted so in the bruises Jon bore The ht right now He’d want his plaything back And the easiest way to get to Jon was through the only person he trusted
Tally
Larsen probably planned to torture her, break her But evil, he thought with a fierce stab of pride, didn’t understand good Tally would rather die than betray those under her care Just like twenty years ago, she had gone mute rather than betray hiain!
Orrin had begged for his life, promised to turn himself in after the first slash of Clay’s leopard claws Clay had executed him anyway For the pain he had put in Tally’s eyes, for the childhood he had stolen, Orrin Henderson had deserved to die But to the authorities, Orrin’s words would have changed Clay’s act frohter in defense of a child, to cold-blooded retaliation
They would have been wrong
Clay had stopped thinking straight the second he’d heard that first, faint cry, the utter despair in it a violation As Orrin broke Tally, so in Clay had broken, too He could have noOrrin than he could have left Tally to take the hurt Part of him wondered if, deep down, she still blamed him His leopard’s heart re, war him the past was over and done What they were noas the truth He accepted that whisper, accepted it was Tally speaking to hiht not know it yet He understood full well that she thought they weren’t trulyto correct herover her, she didn’t want to bond him to her in such an inescapable fashion, didn’t want to handicap him
Sometimes, Tally could be very stupid for a smart woman
She was his life, his soul Without her, he would have gone rogue sooner rather than later Faith had said that to hies and that his tih hie to maim, to tear, to annihilate this creature who had dared threaten Tallyand knew that what Faith had foretold had come to pass Today would decide his future, tell him whether he could be the " Dorian’s voice "Unable to confirm if male is the one described by Jon Female is blonde, possible match to description of Ashaya’s assistant"
Clay buried his eing beast A second later, he felt his nostrils flare as the night air brought him the sharp metallic stink of Psy Not all of the race had that scent - Vaughn’s theory was that it only marked those who had accepted Silence on the most fundamental level The ones who retained some spark of humanity, they smelled human, normal
Clay could smell the female, too, but couldn’t tell if the sharpecho of thewoh to know that female hearts and minds could carry as much evil as male - Nikita Duncan, Sascha’sthe exteret aith it But knowing that didn’t make him any less uncomfortable with the idea
"I can see theain
Clay frowned "That’s Talin to you, Boy Genius"
Dorian’s groas low "Ice-fucking-cold water"
They went silent as their earpieces picked up the sound of floorboards squeaking Neither intruder had spoken yet If they reive way to a siic Once his identity was confirmed, Larsen had to die, no ifs, no buts
"Should I pull the curtains over this ?" a female voice asked