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Elijah’s voice broke the weighted silence "They were experi on the wal"See how they have theain by these letters: A, B, and C"

"Here" Raze entered the room hat looked like a makeup case in one hand He set it down on the table and released the catch, revealing a variety of vials

"We need to get that to Grace," Vash said

Syre pushed to his feet "Grace needs help"

Vash walked to Elijah and handed him Phineas’s ID card "Raze knows a laboratory scientist in Chicago I bet she could help us narron our choices to the best in the field"

"That’s a dead end," Raze said veheed her and left I doubt she’d be too charitable to ain with my hand out

It’d be… lovers was par for the course with Raze Instead he said, "Go to her with your dick out You kno to get e need out of her"

"There’s got to be another way," the captain insisted "We can put out a cal to the minions There are bound to be soth of Raze’s protests didn’t escape his notice, but Syre chose not to delve into the reason for it now "We don’t have time to stumble around in the dark, and a recommendation froht le search See to it"

A muscle ticced in Raze’s jaw "Yes, Commander"

"Phineas," Elijah said softly, his attention on the ID card He looked up and raked the rooaze "What the hel was that va was off-limits for her"

Syre’s arms crossed "What are the chances that Phineas isn’t dead?"

Elijah barked out a huh "No way He and Adrian were like this" He crossed his fingers, then glanced at the suitcase on the floor

"Phineas was co back from a trip to the Navajo Lake outpost He stopped in Hurricane, Utah, to feed his lycans and was ambushed by a nest of wraiths Whoever the hel that Vashti-wannabe was, she must’ve had a setup there, too And after Phineas was taken out, she grabbed his shit and bailed"

"Perhaps At this point we can’t rule anything out"

"Right" The Alpha’s gaze was hard "Because it’s ether than it is for a group of minions to fal off the deep end"

Syre conceded the point The majority of ned to live without their souls

A piercing, inhued downstairs, reaching the first floor as a series of gunshots reverberated through the house

Crash stood over the sprawled body of the wraith-turned-un was in one hand and his other was pressed over a bloody wound on his biceps "He went nuts and lunged for me"

The minion who’d briefly recovered lay dead on the floor, his features reverted to the haunted, sunken look of a wraith Even as they watched, the h Syre, igniting a vicious bloodlust It was quite clear nohy Adrian had risked Lindsay the way he had--he couldn’t afford to give up even a drop of his blood, not when al evidence pointed to it being a colanced at the Alpha Lindsay was the key to Adrian, Elijah was the key to Lindsay, and Vashti was the key to Elijah The rasp, and he didn’t have any qual it

CHAPTER 18

Adrian exited his private plane first, then held out a hand to assist Lindsay down the short steps

"Wow," she said "It’s definitely cooler here in Ontario"

Soon she wouldn’t notice such things Every day the vareater hold, and every day he was relieved to find her soul pure and intact It seeh of a sacrifice, leaving Lindsay’s unh he had doubts that the Creator paid any attention to hiratitude for the miracle of her

With his hand at her back, he steered her toward the Mitchel Aeronautics hangar Siobhán was using as her ho between the ar doors, then headed to the stairs that led down into the subterranean storage areas The eerie quiet they descended into was very much at odds with his last visit Then, the screams of theHe’d since had the rooms soundproofed to preserve the sanity of the Sentinels orked there

"Captain"

He turned to face a doorway he’d just passed "Siobhán It’s good to see you"

The petite brunette stepped out with a s for him, but her eyes went iht for me?"

"What you asked for" He passed it over

"Coh her cropped hair, which was stil da froe pants with Ared attire did little to toughen her appearance She was tiny and appeared delicate, a ruse that had blindsided too many of her opponents to count

He fol owed her and Lindsay down the hal and into a laboratory outfitted with the best equiplass-fronted refrigeration units lined the wal s, while microscopes, notepads, and laptops covered the metal tables in the center

Siobhán cleared space on the nearest tabletop with a sweep of her hand and set the cooler down She s "Wish I could’ve been there when Raguel gave this up And you got a sample from Vashti, too! You’l have to tel h I expect you have information to share with me as wel " Adrian pul ed out a metal stool for Lindsay and stood behind her

"Where’s everyone else?"

"The others are in the infirmary or out in the field" The Sentinel s inside "I wanted us to have some privacy when I talked to you about my latest discoveries"