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"I was told to clear out the progra," Nancy explained

"Oh my God," KatIn other words, she’d been given an order froher up than her in the food chain to wipe out any proof of the program "They wanted you to kill them?"

She exhaled noisily as she nodded "Plausible deniability, they said That the public couldn’t know that we had not only been aware of alien life-for with them for decades"

"Jesus" I rubbed a hand across ht? Every Luxen as in there of their own free will? The ones ere allowing you to do tests? And even the ones who hadn’t assimilated to your standards?"

"Yes," she responded

"Of course, she had no proble the to her But those Origins?" Luc shook his head slowly "She couldn’t do it"

My brows rose Did the wohed as he picked up on hts "No, Daemon, she doesn’t have a heart Not in the way a norrow attached to a classroom full of little freaky, and yet oddly adorable, kids She didn’t want all of her work to go to waste, so she ht she had them hidden"

"But she didn’t?" Kat tucked her hair behind her ear

He shook his head "As I said, I’m pretty damn well connected I knohere they are and I kno badly Nancy wants to return to theiven that any of us are still alive, and cultivate the little freaks into big freaks"

"Like I did with you?" Nancy asked

Luc flipped her off "Nancy knows that if she harms one hair on any of our bodies, even looks at us in a way that I find annoying"

The casual indifference that he always rocked slipped off his face like alike purple dia the Luc who caused grown men to piss the side of, and that Luc was downright disturbing-looking as his features sharpened

"She knoill have every single one of them killed in seconds," he said, his voice low "And if my people don’t hear from oing to die And then Nancy has nothing"

Good God

Kat stared at the kid like she’d never seen him before

There was no doubt inlike that Asas it was, he’d do it, but I also didn’t believe that he’d ever let those kids fall back into Nancy’s hands

And I wondered if she really believed that Then again, what choice did she have? "Why didn’t you just kill her?" I asked