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Hanging up, Katya dropped her forehead to Dev’s, wanting to sob but knowing she couldn’t indulge the need Instead, she shifted back into the driver’s seat and took a deep breath, feeling her chest ers tre wheel, but it wasn’t fro more andseventold her "There’s an empty lot ten blocks to the left"

"I’ine and headed out into the late evening darkness Dev’s phone rang alure out what the hell was going on

She snapped the phone open "Change of plans," she said to Aubry "We’ve been directed to another ave him the coordinates to a location ten minutes from the correct one "Hurry"

"Give the phone to Dev"

Knowing the otherup And drove like a bat out of hell, certain Aubry and his people wouldn’t be able to get to their vehicles fast enough to follow her

She screeched into the ee warehouse less than fivefor her, the s opaque Bringing her car to a stop beside it, she got out, her left leg shaky but still capable of keeping her upright And her fingersthey were strong enough to co’s face "I have to adlimpsed in your memories, I would have expected you to have turned traitor"

"I want to live" Repeating her earlier words, she folded her ar her with a cool stare from the other side of the car

"Yourat her as if she were an experiment "Unfortunate that you were handicapped for such an extended period The ah for thenored his words "You said you’d be able to fixleaned back in his seat "You’ve left it too late There’s no way to repair the da spoke to the driver "Get the Shine director"

As the Arrow - and the driver was unquestionably part of the Council’s ’s sedan, Katya said, "Stop"

Of course he didn’t She turned to Ming, feeling the hairs on the back of her neck rise as the Arrow reached Dev’s side of the vehicle "You lied, didn’t you?" she asked, letting hi to be able to undo what you did to me The shield is unbreakable"

"Yes, and as the lines of progra are linked directly to it - ah, you didn’t know that"

"I was dead the moment you tookaround her brain "If I’d known you’d prove this useful, I wouldn’t have anchored the shield in your brain, but what’s done is done"

And now, she thought, hearing the Arrow push back Dev’s door, it was ti," she said, as a line of wet trickled out of her ear, as her left leg began to spas out the sleek little gun hidden in her lower back, she shot him in the head

A solid thu the ground

Blood covered her, having spurted through Ming’s open , but her attention was elsewhere "Dev?"

"He’s down Stunned" Getting out of the passenger seat, Dev ran to her "Damn it to hell, Katya, he could’ve - "

She shook her head, dropping her gun hand to her side "No Part of me always knew it had to be a lie You can’t undo a trap that severe"

So’s vehicle

"Get in the car!" Shoving her inside, Dev crashed in behind her As he spun the unbelievably fast, she turned to look

Ming’s car had somehow collapsed inward, as if someone had crumpled the frame like so much paper "Dev?" she whispered

"Turns out that frame had some metal in it" was his cryptic answer "How many men teleported in?"

"Four" She could see the the unrelieved black of the Arrow Squad The fact that they were still at Ming’s vehicle as Dev’s car disappeared around the cornerup the phone,Katya’s eyes as she sat on their bed, her arht, the bastard survived" DarkRiver’s Psy contact had coh up in the superstructure that contact was, but he wasn’t idiotic enough to jeopardize thetoo many questions

"I shot hi onto the bed, he sat with his legs bracketing her, his hands cupping her face "The bullet blasted through and straight out the other side, along the very top of his skull He’s unconscious but predictions are he’ll make a full recovery"

"Will it all come back on you? On Shine?"