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"Me? Why ain He withered, putting his business face back on "Because It’s dark and you can be ued, or pretended to be eht not know I’don them--even if it only had been a couple of tis they did know about Like that I could see in the dark and hold my breath underwater for what seemed like foreverand that I could throw crazy hard I alent Tru a cast the last tiht not have liked that I was different froes

"So you really think you can disable their security system?" Willow asked

"Not disable exactly If we shut it down, then they’ll know there’s a problerin slid over his face "I was thinking athat "

Now that ere here, I tried not to freak the hell out We were a group of perpetual teens about to break into an undisclosed governht about it like that, the whole idea sounded half-baked But instead of losingmyself ere no ordinary kids We were differentspecial

Me raphed all over my face because Simon’s sympathetic look almost did me in "You can do this, Kyra Justbreathe"

I sed my doubts as I rubbed ain while I keptto soak up some of his confidence

Jett tapped Si his attention back to the plan, while I thought about what Siht, at least as far as I could tell We ht be able to heal faster than normal people, me more so than the rest of the shot Sihters" kneays to kill us

"Tea to a place in the center of the plans on his coe, open space that could be any kind of room "Once you’re inside, you locate the central lab That’s your best chance of finding Tyler if they’ve got hiolf ball–sized lump that forruesoes that made my stomach pitch I was sure I didn’t want to know the answer, but it didn’t stopto hietic look as he snapped his laptop shut, and then his fingers drifted to the spot on his arain "We need to be in and out as fast as possible"

No one said anythingas we piled out of the SUV We were parked in an ordinary public lot and our vehicle looked like all the rest, blending nicely in a sea of other SUVs, minivans, and sedans But even so, I hoped there weren’t ca an electronic eye on us, because if there were, ere screwed

"Okay New plan," I said as fire my mind "I’etting out the saht behind Natty

But Simon put his hand on Jett’s shoulder to stop hi mine

As far as I was concerned, there was no question "Because Tea after Tyler That puts ht throw a fit, extolling the dangers ofinto the lion’s den or some other such crap, and I braced myself for it while Thoear Instead, after a few seconds of staring at each other like that, like ere in a silent standoff, Sied

And that was it

"Okay So, Jett--I mean, Team One--you take Thoed a look, and I tried to decide if I could decipher any hiddento tell whether or not there really was so more than just leader and devoted follower between them

Simon flashed Jett a wry sht," he added "Willow and et word that the coast is clear" Then his eyes dropped to the key card in his hand "You sure this thing’s gonna work? Those of us on Tea on you"

Jett practically beauess we’re about to find out"

CHAPTER FIVE

BOOM!

The explosion wasn’t so ined an explosion would be, but ht either It re that see to ru my skin scream My eardruh with just-sharpened icepicks

The whole thing lasted only h it seeh my head at once, like: Where had the blast come from? Had Jett caused it, or were they in trouble because they’d walked into so into traps?