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"Don’t come any closer or I’ll shoot you" The barrel of the enornu Frahs over five pounds loaded and has horrible recoil The only way to fire it is to grip it with both hands and brace yourself Your hand is shaking froer, you’ll un Then I’ll shoot you where it counts"
Vincent gripped the gun tighter, which only made the barrel dance more
"You’ll hit the kid," Vincent squeezed out
"I won’t I’rip and pointed his cannon at Kyle’s head
"The child is keeping you alive," Rogan said His voice was ice "Kill him, and I will kill you on this overpass, slowly, piece by piece"
Vincent sed
"There are tays this can go," Rogan said "Let go of the child and you live Harm the boy and you die"
"Decide quickly," I told hiain and opened his hand The oversized revolver clattered to the ground
"Let go of the boy," Rogan said
Vincent squeezed Kyle to him His eyes ild He looked like he would dash to the nearest edge and jump over it If he sprinted, I had to shoot hian’s voice snapped like a whip "I don’t have all day, Harcourt!"
Vincent let go of Kyle The boy ran to an strode toward Vincent The summoner took a few steps back, put his hands up, and took a wild swing at Rogan The punch an reached out, alers locked on Vincent’s wrist He twisted and Vincent bent over, his eyes watering Rogan grabbed Vincent’s shirt with his other hand and half dragged, half walked him down to us
Out of the corner ofbelow us A fae Rover pulled up My sister shrank into her norer door opened She jue Rover sped down the curve of the road, heading north
"Thank you," I told Rogan
"We need to talk later," he said
Rogan’s people handcuffed Vincent and put hi loaded Bern backed our Ford down the overpass Sergeant Teddy climbed inside
In the distance a cacophony of sirens shrieked and wailed, getting closer
Another froe Rovers arrived with Troy behind the wheel Rogan held the passenger door open for et into the daathering on the horizon and I was about to be in the epicenter of it
Bern saw the hurricane too "I’ll take Teddy hoot into the car and buckled Kyle in at the center of the seat Rogan got in on the other side, Troy stepped on the gas, and ere off
We rode in silence for alan finally said
"Yes"
"How?" The word cut like a knife "How can she do this, how long, how many times, how ic She has done it since she was a baby She has transformed a total of twelve times Nobody knows except the family and her pediatrician"
"So she can control it"
"Yes It was touch and go between the ages of eleven and fourteen, but she’s slowlyWe’re cautiously optimistic she will achieve complete control by the time her hormones settle dohich should be around twenty or so"
"Cautiously" Rogan choked off the word His blue eyes were hard like a glacier "Is it genetic?"
"Yes"
"Is there a possibility of your childrenit?"
"Yes"