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"Here" was a small roo about three feet square in size

"Leads to the roof by way of the attic," he supplied "Quick way to make a dash for it, if one needed to Also, this room has thick concrete walls, so less sound travels"

So thatoverheard "You can read my mind now," I breathed "God, Bones, that kind of freaks me out"

"I'd tell you I won't listen to your thoughts, but that would be a lie You're too close to me for me to block them out completely, and I can't say I would even if I could I want to know all of you, Kitten What you show me, and what you try not to"

There was no use arguing over it If I'd been endoith the sa it Mencheres had said Bones's strength would grow, but he hadn't ether I wondered what else was going to be different

"My vision and hearing are clearer," Bones answered for er As for what else is different, we'll have to wait and see"

"I still don't know about this," Ihim pull the questions out of my mind before I could even ask them

Bones studied ed, luv Just my abilities Can you believe that?"

He would have heard the answer before I said it out loud, but I did it anyway

"Yes"

Bones gave me a few drops of his blood to replenish what he'd drunk before we returned to the questionable festivities I felt like I'd downed a bottle of NoDoz, I was so wiredDon will be doing backflips when he gets his saht irrelevantly

Tate was across the rooht my eye and rubbed his nose, twice I tensed That was an old signal that there was trouble He turned around in the next moe had just been exchanged

This was a ti would co's up, Tate's freaked If you have a lockdown mode for this place, noould be the time to implement it

Bonesme close to his side as we passed by other people They didn't exchange words Maybe Mencheres had also heard estured to a nearby guard

That's when all hell broke loose

A va toward us blew up Just blew into pieces of scorched body parts Then three more rushed in our direction at kamikaze speeds

Bones threw me across the room like a Hail Mary football to Tate, who darted forward It wasn't ava his body as a shield from the sudden attack of human and inhuman bo treats went off like Roh not to be killed by their close contact I craned over Tate's shoulder and kicked as he barreled us away from the crowd

"Goddao!"

"You don't understand," Tate ground out, giving h elbow to the head that briefly stunned me into lih the throngs of people Each exit was guarded by vaed to Bones or Mencheres, but they let us pass after a shouted co his voice made me ith relief At least he was still alive

Tate clao, even when I bit hie I could inflict in the position he hadover his back like a sack Only after ere outside on the lawn did he stop running

"Let go of o back inside," he al me

I released an to yell "What the fuck, Tate! You think I'-"

"There's a bo to blow"

That shocked me into silence for a second, then I started toward the house again

Tate punchedme back

"I don't have tiet everyone out, even your varab him He's involved Guard the perimeter, Cat"

He sprinted back inside, and I wrestled with the choice whether or not to follow hio back in and tell Bones about the boet to hi at him, but with all the chaos, I didn't know if he'd hear me

My decision wasstealthily across the roof Oh, we had rats trying to abandon ship, did we?

I got the them into the walls from the velocity of my leap There was only a split second to identify them before I crashed into their bodies, and in that instant, I knehich ones to skewer The two lesser vaers while I split Talis him

He ca teeth Talisently We rolled around on the grass, both of us tearing at each other Soon I was covered in messy bite marks where his teeth sliced h his heart did he freeze With a malicious smile I moved it a fraction

"One twitch and you're beef jerky, asshole I'd stay real still if I were you"

But he wasn't me "I won't be held like your father," he said, and proved his state his own heart with his actions and going limp

"Shit!" I exclaimed, and shoved him off

There wasn't time to ponder Talisroups of vauards There were soNone of the faces belonged to Bones, however

I saw Annette arabbed her "Where's Bones? Why isn't he out here? He knows, doesn't he?"

I didn't saybo to cause a panic if people didn't know yet Annette looked rather frazzled herself, her usual cool composure absent

"He's still inside He won't leave until all his people are out and he finds the others who are involved"

"Oh no he doesn't," I growled

Annette yanked on o "Crispin said to keep you out here," she insisted, holding me back

Everything else aside, I enjoyed what I did next Shallow of me, but true I whirled and hit her so hard, she dropped to the ground with a dent in her skull On the practical side, it also kept her fro me See? It wasn't all for fun