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Once they'd reached the prison ward'scorridor branched off, this one filled with offices and labs Without a word, Fegley hauled her into the last room, what looked like a modernist den No lab? No electrodes or bone saws?
A plain-Jane brunette sat behind an executive desk She sported an I'lasses Must be Dr Dixon
Behind her, a towering dark-haired ht, revealing only a shadowy profile
Carrow peered outside to get an idea of their location, but rain pelted theAccording to iniant island, thousands of miles from land in any direction Natch
"Free her hands," the tall h he'd spoken only three words, Carrow recognized Declan Chase's voice - that low, hateful tone with the faintest hint of an Irish accent
Fegley unlocked her cuffs the same way he'd locked theh a concealed panel door in a side wall
Everything in this place, including her tor"ue, was locked with a person's right hand thuley's Beauty So to look forward to "I remember you, Blademan," she told Chase "Yeah, from when you and your men electrocuted me"
Those bastards had posted bail for Carrow's latest disorderly conduct charge - proudly earned! - and then lain in wait outside the Orleans Parish Correctional As she headed hoagged her, and forced a black bag over her head "Was the hood supposed to instill dread into reply, Chase faced her briefly, yet he didn't look at her, ish Several hanks hung over one side of his face, and she thought she saw scars jagging beneath theray
He was dressed in so any exposed skin on his body with the help of his leather gloves and high-collared jacket By all outward appearances, he seemed cold as ice, even as his aura screamed I'in the Radiant out of her cell, tiin, her Valkyrie lightning struck outside and the coy
He hurt her a lot
"So, Chase, you get off torturing women?" It made a kind of sick sense that a in, with her glowing beauty and lust for life
Carrow thought she saw his lips curl, as if this statenificance to him "Women? I only torture one woin the Radiant for now?" Out of the corner of her eye, Carro Dixon frowning at Chase, as if she suspected some untoward interest as well Ah, so that was the way of it - Dixon carried a torch for the Bladeht consider his features attractive, for a sadistic human, but his half-hidden countenance resembled a pale, deadened mask
All the best with that, you crazy kids Tommy-used-to-work-on-the-docks andback to theBut the tension in his shoulders was so ot stones to nab a Valkyrie, I'll give you that," Carrow said "But her sisters will come for her For that matter, you really shouldn't have pissed off the House of Witches The covens will find your little jail They'll descend on this place" Though she sounded confident, she'd begun to suspect that the island was cloaked somehow By now, Mariketa would know she'd been abducted, and if her powerful friend hadn't yet scried her location - or gotten a soothsayer to uncover it - then it couldn't be found
"Will they, indeed?" His tone was s "Then I'll add to ister Chase is only doing what in to plot, we sentinels rise up, as we have for centuries"
"Plot?"
Dixon nodded "You're planning to annihilate mankind and take over the earth"