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Angus looked up, but Zach couldn’t pull his eyes away from the photos "Who did this?"
"Defenders--or their African equivalent--ed to sneak a man inside He used explosives like Lexi had planned to do He tore the place apart in the uinar there?" asked Zach, feeling a sick sense of dread roll through his gut The Sanguinar were cursed by the Solarc to always dwell in darkness If any of them dared let the sun touch their skin, it would have summoned the Solarc’s warriors into this world, and if that happened, those warriors--the Wardens--would kill anyone in their path
Joseph nodded, confir Zach’s fears "The Wardens came and killed anyone who hadn’t died in the explosion"
"How many?" asked Drake
"Forty-three Sentinels Three hundred seventeen humans,people And they made it only because they weren’t there They were on their way here to see if Nika is co the photos, Zach had a hard ti it as truth
"So, when I say I’ to do that to the people underit because I have no soul I’ it because I have no choice" And to prove it, Joseph ripped his shirt open, sending buttons flying off to hit the walls He stood there, baring hisa s to his lifemark "Satisfied?" he asked, but it cae
Zach wasn’t Not by a long shot Things had taken a turn for the worse, and nothing about it satisfied hius, still as cal about the best way to clean their swords
"I’ tolike this to one of my people"
"She won’t help you kill therown up with these people, and noto help Joseph take the with absolute authority
"How can you be so sure?" asked Drake, voicing the question Zach couldn’t
"Because I’ to convince her now It will save Logan the trouble of sucking the inforer rose up inside Zach He was already launching hirabbed his arrowled Zach, barely recognizing his own voice
"Logan won’t hurt her He’ll an couldinto her eyes if he wanted
A red haze flowed over Zach’s vision and histo slaan to so ed at Joseph again, but the o," said Drake
Angus gave a grunt of acknowledgment, and they lifted hiainst their hold, but they were fast and strong as hell, and they got him out the door in two seconds
He landed a solid blow to Drake’s ribs and found hiainst the hallall, pinned there by four hard hands His feet barely touched the ground, giving hie
Zach’s breath sawed in and out of his lungs,them burn with fury He should have come here on his own He would have taken Joseph down and no one could have stopped hiht into Zach’s face His buddy’s tone cut through the fog and helped hi to bash his ribs in
Zach shoved hard at his anger, trying to push it away, but all he could think about was Logan’sher lifeblood froan near her"
"Of course not," soothed Angus "You’re going toto convince her to play nice so Logan won’t have to"
Disbelief shocked the air froree with Joseph? You think we should kill these us was quiet for ahis words "I won’t let Gilda or Sibyl end up like one of the bodies in those pictures, lying in theplans to kill "
"And what about Lexi?" demanded Zach "She helped them er a threat," said Angus "Those men out there are I won’t let that stand One way or another"
None of this sat right with Zach He preferred the black and white world where he knew exactly what to do All these shades of gray pissed hier a threat, you’ll let theus’s blue eyes pinned Zach in place They burned with a kind of wisdonite Zach had nothing but respect for this man who had trained hi kicked in, waking up the reflex where Angus talked and Zach listened
In a tone so full of calus said, "What I’ is that the only person who can save their sorry asses is Lexi Get her to cooperate Maybe we’ll get lucky and find a way to keep the rednecks breathing"
"It’s worth a shot," agreed Drake