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She had cohtened her hold on the connection Could this be right? She scra to find soirl’s duplicity, of her malevolence She found none Only a bitterness that she had naively wandered into the Center, and been iirl? Where did she come from? Frustrated, she collapsed back in her chair She couldn’t pick up any definitive details, but she knew enough to know that an innocent girl was imprisoned here in the Center
"Caia?"
She suddenly beca her, and others around her were no longer paying attention to the lecture but staring at her, bewildered by her presence and the disruption she was causing
She didn’t care about them She turned to Mordecai "I need to speak with Marita Now"
His cell buzzed on the coffee table, and he groaned when he saw the caller ID He really didn’t want to speak to that Midnight at the moment, not hat had happened He needed Nikolai toto incite the opposite
Sighing he flipped the phone open
"Yes"
"I’ve called you twice now Why haven’t you answered?" Nikolai’s thick voice queried suspiciously down the line
He better just get it over with "There’s been a developreat"
"Well, outline the problem quickly I have one of my own"
"Du Bois?"
"Du Bois Speak, Kirios"
He bristled at the use of his naue to curb a verbal reaction He sed and tightened his hold on the phone "I’ve te heavily down the other end of the phone
"Nikolai?"
"I’ood ti"
"No, they are not If you had been paying attention, I used the word temporarily I’m on this, don’t worry"
"I shall try to maintain faith in you, Kirios You can’t have survived the world this long without a certain arunted "I appreciate the confidence"
"H but trust you will take care of this I aathered some rebels, idiots who believe in his faithless words I have one in custody She says they are planning an attack against a pack of lykans, the MacLachlans"
"Have you taken Du Bois into custody?"
"Not yet I need verification fro his little rebellion before I can take him before the Council I will put a stop to the attack in tih his body "You better You realize Caia will be aware of this little attack, and thatup to defend the pack If Caia is caught in the crossfire then our plans are going to be obliterated We need that girl alive"
"I aed "Do not push me I am not the one who lost our inside asset"
"Yes, well, it looks like we both have a lot of work to do and very little tiain Understood?"
A tense silence, followed by "Understood, Kirios Apologies"
"Accepted" He sighed "Callup, throwing his phone over his shoulder, and leaning back into the sofa with his eyes squeezed tight
He had to getThere were too, too many years at stake to let Caia and Du Bois control this war
10 - Mate
The television flickered, lighting her face up in the darkher sardonic smirk as she chewed on candy and watched the latest soap opera Ryder watched Jaeden from his place on the twin bed next to hers, and was a of peace that settled over hi allowed to look at her
Ryder closed his eyes briefly as he fought the courage to say what he had to say to her Maybe he should just let it be She had had a rough few days
After her revelations the night before, Jaeden had fallen asleep quickly, exhausted fro He, on the other hand, couldn’t even close his eyes, her descriptions of her torture rolling around in his brain and roiling his stomach How had she survived what had happened to her, and still be able to function as north a for only an hour or so before she had started crying out in her sleep Her bed started to shake, and then the telephone on her bedside table flew across the room and smashed into s to rumble when he had ju her into his arhtmares Slowly, the , snuggling into hi, they hadn’t said anything Jae hadout of bed she had seen the telephone sratefully, realizing the kindness he had paid to her last night