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"I don’t care if he wants to visit at three in the fucking h "I’ll do whatever the man wants All you have to do is tell me"

Three hours later, Dev called Jack back "He wants you to move to San Francisco" The inforot family to protect," Dorian had said "Less people who knohat he can do the better I didn’t even know before he decided to tell uy sounds secretive"

"I’d have hiaze "He’s deterh to share a secret he’s kept for a hell of a long time, so if I was you, I’d do exactly as he says"

Now Jack didn’t hesitate for even a second "I’ll start packing"

Hanging up, Dev met the eyes of the woman who’d just exited the bathrooue, but as she walked across the roo thatinto the bed, she ran her fingers down the roughness of his jaw "But I don’t want to talk about that right now Love me, Dev"

And because he could deny her nothing, he did as she asked

If Dev had allowed hied helplessness that twisted around hisstupid As it was, he coood at as a child The machines, the metal, usually helped, but never when it came to Katya She reached too deep, made him feel too much

"I didn’t think the non-Silent could do that," Katya said to hi as they discussed the final preparations A bare two hours reer lead-up, but not only would Ming be in the city today, but the longer they waited, the more Katya would lose of herself

"Do what?" he asked, looking up from his sketch of the location where they planned to lure the bastard

"Shut away e from her seat on the sofa in front of him, she walked over to sit on the arone cold"

His slid his own aresture "It’s necessary" Tugging gently, he brought her into his embrace "A soldier can’t operate unless he’s co were you a soldier?"

"Few years after high school" He frowned and annotated a gap in the net of snipers he planned to have cover the et the kind of training I needed"

"Needed for what?" A war his nape, a kiss pressed to his cheekbone

"Katya" It was meant to be an admonishment, but he was lost the instant he , he pulled her doith a hand on the back of her head and bit at her lower lip in sensual punishaze darkened to jade shot with tiger’s-eye "Leth "I don’t want to lose you"

He looked at her, waiting for her to understand

"No," she said after almost thirty seconds of silence "I wouldn’t choose safety either if it was you"

He kissed her for that, for accepting his need to protect her, keep her safe

Afterward, she nuzzled into his throat "Just a few minutes"

"Just a few" He needed to have every piece in its absolute accurate place or it would all turn to shit If they worked it exactly right, the Councilor would find a physicalon the psychic plane would leave Katya ulti had a hidden back door into her mind, one that would allow him to easily skirt the shields he’d put in place and take anything he wanted

"Is it all fro a soldier? Your ability to compartmentalize?"

Shadohispered at the back of hishirief-shrouded past "Why?"