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Nodding, she drifted back, her fingers lingering on his until the last moment She hadn’t pulled away first, and his heart ached
Har at Peri’s elbow "Now," she said tightly, and Peri looped her ar and vanishing into the crowd
Slowly Silas sat back down, calling himself a fool as he dropped his e his table, and he ignored the life, even if it came with cheap knockoff shoes and polyester suits He’d lost her once He’d do aliven her poison
The couple inching closer protested as three men in identical suits pushed them back Silas looked up, not surprised when three ht behind them, his pale face spotted red with cold as he halted before Silas
"Where is she?" Steiner demanded, eyes on the two cups
The couple fled Silas put the flats of his ar with the two nested cups She had a thirty-second head start He could buy her a few estured, and Silas jerked when one of the agents grabbed his shoulder and yanked hih that they were hardly getting noticed "Hey! Watch it!" Silas co the cold coffee fro hair
"I ask again, Denier," Steiner intoned, standing too close with his agents he Silas in from behind "You left Atlanta Came here to meet her Where is she?"
Silas tried not to smirk He didn’t want to lose his lab access, after all "Probably her old apartave her the key," he ad-libbed "Harmony is with her of her free will Neither one of the off and letting them do their job"
Motion brusque, Steiner motioned for someone to frisk him "What’s at her apart the attention "Besides memories?" he said as he fixed his coat "Weapons, so be careful if you’re going to follow her there"
"Then , Silas started intofor the nearby street and the two black cars parked illegally at the curb He could slow things dohile still being cooperative "Sure I’ve done that before I want a vest," he said, knowing it would take some time to find one that fit him, and since he asked, they had to co the as she hadn’t lived in it for a year and it was likely occupied by soht give her an entire day before they found her
"Get him in the car," Steiner deht his balance, careful to keep his eyes down and not looking for Peri Shetheive her away if it was the latter He was confident the last place she’d be was her old apart him
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
"Peri? We’re alh Peri Her doze shredded with the jagged realization that she’d forgotten Har the car--not Jack That she’d nodded off at all was disturbing But then again, she’d not had a chance to sleep for a while
"Sorry," Harmony said, and Peri took her hand off her coat’s pocket and the three pens of Evocane there "Didn’t ot that it was you driving, not Jack"
Harhtened on the wheel The car still smelled like fast-food chicken, and with four empty coffee cups in the console, she wasn’t surprised at the faint need to use the bathroo only the grittier outskirts where old city sprawl es to save the center, Detroit had left thousands to fend for themselves or move inward It always surprised Peri how e of or believing if they stuck it out, their property values would again rise
Not likely, she thought as she wiggled her feet back into her new boots before pulling her WEFT-supplied jacket tighter about her shoulders Detroit was currently balanced with high profit The few areas left to the gangs and low-end drugs
Get in Find Michael and Allen Kill Michael--not Allen Get out Easy peasy But a slight, unusual tre, an itch very akin to the sensation of adrenaline crawling along her synapses The feeling was familiar--she tasted it every tih, it hurt, the ache reaching to the pit of her belly and cutting like a knife Nausea oozed in behind it, and her legs hurt, as if she’d had a fever It was a warning: withdrawal
Her heart gave a pound, and her fingers stretched, touching her pocket again as she recalled Silas’s worry when he gave her the Evocane His expression was nothing new She’d seen it a hundred tihts of their last year at Opti training ringing through her, that sa He’d loved her then He loved her now Seeing her younger self care for hiuiltthe lure to find so