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"As I said before, this whole situation is fucked" He gave the knife point a somewhat dubious look "I take it you wantthee Cutting them out seeerly "It’ll hurt"

I shrugged "I’ to realize that," he muttered, thenacross with one hand and sweeping the short strands of ht and firm

"It does feel like they’re embedded," he coht just tear your lobe off"

"I won’t"

Coldinto ly delicate, and the cut didn’t hurt all that ers were pulling atdropped onto the seat between us and bounced onto the floor of the truck

"Other one," Evin said

I resisted the irab whatever had fallen out and twisted around on the seat, so that he could reach ht ear He repeated the process, but this ti out ofpulled out of my ear canal rather thanandaway themy ear fiercely "That one hurt"

And other than the pain, I didn’t really feel any different with the earrings gone For soht I would

But- like shape-shift - to see if reht noe didn’t have that ti station by now We really needed to get , just in case he caas Dirt and stones sprayed the underneath of the truck as the tires skidded then gripped, and the big truck surged forward oncethe earring "Only it’s got a tail"

I held out a hand and he dropped it into my palm It was small and round, and the silk-fine tail was about two and a half inches long

Evin reached down and picked up the re It was also small, but without the tail

"I have no idea what they are," he said "Do you?"

I shook my head "But when I tried to shift shape, I was hit by an intense pain - it felt like my brain was on fire Maybe this is the reason why"

"How the hell can so their other shape?"

"Nanotechnology means the smallest devices can be extremely powerful"

"Granted, but that doesn’t explain how it ed "Fro from the brain increases exponentially e shift Maybe the device soe and prevents the shift process"

So why hadn’t it prevented the seagull shift? I frowned down at the thing ininto different shapes resulted in different energy signatures, and if these things could be programmed, then it was here to prevent the wolf shift

Because he doesn’t know about your alternate form, that internal voice whispered He doesn’t know about your other skills

If only I could figure out who he was, my life would be a whole lot easier

I dropped the metal mouse back into Evin’s hand "Keep them safe for me"

He looked surprised but pleased "I will, trust me"

I did And not just because he wanted aze, no artifice in his actions Granted, heto me, but that wasn’t his nature Wasn’t his soul

Evin was honest I’d stake iven the situation, I probably was

"So what’s our plan of action?" he asked

I hesitated "As I said earlier, I think the first thing we need to do is talk to Harris What happens after that very much depends on whether he believes us or not"

"If he doesn’t, we’re stuck I can’t leave Dunedan until I’ht, they’ll kill Lyndal"

"So they’ve told you to call froave me the location and number, and said if I use any other phone, Lyndal will pay"

"Meaning they’re using caller ID - and there are ways around that" Not that I could actually recall any of them at the moment "Is the number you call local or interstate?"

"Interstate The calls are killingyou pay for the calls?"

"And the villa The bastards aren’t exactly free with the cash"

"I guess it’s one way to avoid a paper - or credit - trail"

"And if they were planning to kill us at the end of it, I guess it’s probably easier to waste my cash than theirs"

"Probably If Harris can trace the phone nu location" Though I very much doubted the phone nu Lyndal That would be a duant, yes, overconfident, probably, but not duet her out of there without the"

"We will"

"I don’t think you and I have enough firepower to stop them"

"I don’t intend for it to be just you and lanced at me "Your brother?"

"If I can reme ar to that, but the sliver of fear whisked through the darkness again Silence fell I kept the truck thundering through the night, but it ell after one before we got back into Dunedan

I swung the truck down a side street and drove straight to the police station I expected the place to be lit up, but it was as dark as a grave

Trepidation slithered through me I pulled up by the curb rather than the driveway and threw the gears into neutral

"He’s not there by the look of it," Evin said

"But he should be He had two captives that needed to be locked up One of them was a vamp" And Harris, despite his extraordinary abilities, wasn’t used to dealing with vamps I shouldn’t have left hiht now be dead and I wouldn’t be one step closer to h the side , scanning the building’s s and doors There were no broken s, no s looked in order<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>