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"Aren’t you with Drake?"

"Not anyer welcome"

Thankfully, Tynan didn’t question hiht, but Tynan was athose of his own race "I can have someone out your way in an hour We have plenty of an "It needs to be you"

"I’m farther away It will take me at least six hours to reach you"

Daan’s taste "Where are you?"

"Just north of Dallas"

"Project Lullaby?" asked Logan

"Yes"

"You’ll definitely want to ress so I can help"

"I thought you said you weren’t able to help--weren’t strong enough," said Tynan with a hint of irritation "That’s why you were assigned to hunt with the Theronai"

"Things have changed" What an understatement that was His whole world had shifted For the first tier weak He wanted to howl out his triuive away his location

"What’s changed? Exactly?"

"Not on the phone Meet me at Dabyr as soon as you can" The Theronai Nicholas liked his gadgets and it wouldn’t surprise Logan at all to find out that he used them to listen to phone conversations when it suited him

"This had better be worth my time," said Tynan

"It is"

"Do you want o after hian disappear into the trees,up with him wouldn’t be easy and there were still tomen to look after--one unconscious and the other without her walker to help her get around "No Let hio He’ll turn up eventually"

"What happened? You look like you never got blasted by the Handler Even your hair has grown back"

"Logan did it Right after he tricked Helen into a blood oath and fed from her"

Thomas let out a lohistle "She’s blooded?"

"Not just blooded Logan says she’s one of ours A Theronai" Drake still couldn’t believe Helen was one of his kind It didn’t seeh it did explain a lot about the way he was drawn to her The way he felt co away hurt He had to shove his hands deep into his pockets to keep fro just that

Tho the words, then looked down at Helen’s prone body One of her braids had lost the band securing it and it had unraveled most of the way up Her face was smeared with soot as were her bare arms Oily black patches darkened her knees and the hem of her shorts Synestryn blood They’d have to wash it off her as soon as possible, though Drake suspected that if it had left any taint in her body, Logan would have neutralized it

"If she’s one of oursYou were drawn to her You can bond to her"

Drake nodded

"Do you think that I hting Thohten Thoather power into his body,strain of containing it, like a balloon forced to hold tooEven so, Thonored his duty because it was too painful to go on

Thoht, and if he felt anything odd, he’d never said so Drake understood nohat Logan meant when he said that Helen needed him So far, Drake was the only one of the Theronai who could join with Helen and bring her into their world--show her her rightful place Only theould be drawn to her The power between a bonded pair of Theronai had to be conetic attraction was nature’s way of letting them knohich partners could make effective use of their power If Tho it now He’d already know

Thoered hand slowly as if afraid he’d hurt her and placed it on her forehead Drake wanted to stop hi her, but he held himself still Silent

Thomas needed to know the truth, and the only way to do that was to feel it for hi when he touched Helen No pull, no spark, no heat Nothing but cool, smooth skin