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Kellan grunted "Funny, I’ at a dead man too"

Crowe smiled "You can’t kill me We both know that You need ive you You want to know about Opus Nostrum, don’t you?"

Kellan kept his aim steady on the center of Crowe’s head "I know all I need to know"

"Do you?"

Kellan held the lower "Letthe Order tonight to clear the way for you and your twisted need for power But you weren’t capable of pulling off so like that on your own You needed Jerey to accomplish it You needed a weapon capable of instant, star was your answer"

Crowe sly amused

"Benson stole the prototype from his nephew, but you decided Ackuess Lucky for you, his kidnapping provided the perfect opportunity for you to strike You were able to kill hi the life of a pawn you always intended to sweep off your board"

Kellan heard the access door on the rooftop service building open behind him and Mira quietly announced herself She drew up next to hi fierce and formidable Sexier than he wanted to notice in that moment

He centered himself back on Crowe and the contempt he had for the , was he? That’s why he showed up drunk at the hearing today He said too much, so your spies had him executed on the spot"

Crowe chuckled "You think you have it all figured out You’re not even close"

"I think I am When I touched Benson, his ht"

"Opus Nostrum isn’t the worst of your proble the toward Kellan and Mira

Kellan raised the gun, prepared to fire a shot straight between Crowe’s aht there, asshole Or your next step will be your last"

But Crowe didn’t stop He caer - once, twice Two direct hits, right between the eyes, a dead-on shot into the bastard’s skull

The bullets didn’t so much as make him flinch The blood see over even faster than one of Kellan’s kind

Mira sucked in a sharp breath "Oh, my God"

"What the fuck?" Kellan muttered, shocked and confused "You’re not huetting the picture"

Kellan eed ility Kellan reached for his second sidearers fly on a battle roar, planting one blade in the center of Crowe’s chest, the other driven deep into his throat

Crowe cocked his head at her, a cruel, anirievous wounds were of no consequence at all, he plucked out the daggers and dropped the bloodied weapons to the ground

The rising glo Nathan back into the reception hall as the crowd of screaala attendees continued to pour out to the lobby in wave after wave ofto disable the crystal obelisk and its illuminated orb As Nathan stepped back into the hall, Lucan was discarding his e another into the weapon The orb was chipped and shattered but not broken

"It’s getting brighter" Darion Thorne had coh to destroy it What the hell is that thing made out of?"

Nathan shook his head He didn’t know, but he had another weapon in his arsenal - one inherited frouns to Darion "Light that fucker up I’ll be right behind you"

Dare nodded and stalked across the e floor to meet his father in front of the obelisk He opened fire in concert with Lucan, a 9- stride

Nathan focused on the din of thunderous shots and the echoing screa his Breed ability to bend sound waves and either a it into a ball of sound and energy

Lucan glanced to his son, then to Nathan, giving both warriors a nod of approval Of soleether Lucan and Darion blasted into the orb, creating deep fissures in the glowing sphere of light Nathan gathered y was almost too much for him to contain

On a roar, he let it loose

The air rippled as the sonokinetic blast arced toward the cracked obelisk

Lucan and Dare leapt out of the way, both warriors still shooting at the sculpture as they tuht erupted from the orb, but it lasted only an instant The pebbled crystal of the obelisk and its crowning sphere exploded in all directions, raining down onto the reception hall floor like thousands of tiny dialanced at Nathan, then his son "Good work, both of you" His gray eyes flashed with hot ao find Crowe and finish that bastard"

Chapter Twenty-Nine

MIRA GAPED IN ASTONISHMENT AS CROWE’S PUNCTURED throat and chest repaired themselves in a matter of instants

Who - or what - was he?

Whatever the answer, there see hi

He launched himself at Crowe, a full-body assault that sent bothinto the side of the stairwell door of the service building on the roof The heavy steel panel crushed inith the ies

Crowe chuckled "Not used to being beaten by someone lesser than your own Breed, are you, warrior? That would be yourless than your equal"