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“I’ to destroy these,” she said to hi else useful in the bedroom It was evidence, should be handled with care Except it was her Naked and bound and dishonored Rational or not, she wanted the i around to the trunk, Dmitri opened it to pick up a small hammer from what turned out to be a sleek toolkit She used it to smash the memory cards into dust, then took the pliers he held out to cut the metal components into tiny, tiny bits Dhout, but that cool was edgy by the tih the house—Tommy had left no clues as to his whereabouts

“Honor” Dht the Ferrari to a stop in front of Guild HQ Holding her gaze, he reached out to touch a curling strand of hair that had escaped the clip at the base of her neck, taking care not to brush any other part of her “So soft,” he h to break”

The pain in her chest, that horrible thing, it didn’t lessen But right then, she could’ve kissed hiiven her back a piece of her pride that Tommy’s evil had stolen “I’ll call you as soon as I have anything,” she said, and it al up to see Sara once she entered the Guild building, she went down to the Cellars The underground hidey-holes served a dual purpose—as a place for hunters to take cover when things got too hot, and a home for the Guild’s sophisticated surveillance and data collection systems

All of it run by a brilliant mind trapped in a body that had been crushed in a childhood accident Vivek only had feeling in and above his shoulders, but if anyone thought that stopped hi the best damn “information analyst,” aka spy, in the Guild’s ide operation, they were probably going to get a rude surprise one of these days

“Honor,” he said when she cleared his security protocols to enter the bunker that housed the co to Guild rumors—he ruled the world “Dmitri after you already?”

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Startled, she staredand gli froh for that, try not to atteiven Elena for that”

Honor had heard of the incident; she’d even looked up the newspaper reports online “I think a bullet wound ht hurt him for a while, but I’m fairly certain he’s too old to be killed by it even if you blew out the heart”

Vivek winced “Oooh, Elena doesn’t know that” Turning his chair around with a soft vocal coate a flashing alert “So, did you come down here for my cheery company?” A sarcastic statement, but Honor had spent her childhood wrapped in loneliness—she understood the emotion better than most

“I’m sorry I haven’t visited,” she said “Truth is, I probably wouldn’t have left the Academy even now if Sara hadn’t forced me into it” It seemed impossible that she’d been that weak, beaten creature, but she had, and it was a truth she couldn’t ignore Because never again was she going back to that

Vivek shot her a penetrating look “It’s safe, isn’t it? People don’t understand needing that”