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“I have to talk to Ely” She had to stop shuddering It wasn’t showing on the outside, but on the inside she was co apart and she couldn’t handle it “I have to talk to her now”

She brushed past the group, barely restraining a flinch each ti her that Sethcured

She are of his eyes on her as she stalked through Mission Control She knew exactly where he was, standing to

the side, where he discussed one of the satellites he had given the Breeds free use of His voice was low, but she heard him Heard him beneath the other voices that filled the cavernous rooh it

When had this happened? When had Seth stopped reacting to the un in him ten years before? It had to have been recently As Cassie had stated, he hadn’t aged a day in ten years Theprocess considerably He still looked in his early thirties He was still strong and powerful, but he no longer carried her scent

It was all she could do to keep fro from the communications bunker back to the estate When she reached it, she sla at the table, the children laughing and playing as they ate

There were three Breed children now, and Tanner’s wife and ht she would want children, had never given theret sliced deep as well She felt bo need racing through her as she made her way to the basement level of the estate house and pushed her way into Dr Elyiana Morrey’s office

Ely looked up in surprise fro as Dawn slammed the door behind her

“It’s not time for another treatment, Dawn”

It had become a battle between them The hormonal treatments had had to be adjusted al heat fro Dawn insane

“Why didn’t you tell me?” The words rasped from her throat, hollow and filled with pain

Ely blinked back at her “Tell you what?”

“Why didn’t you tell ed “You can cure him but you can’t cure me?” The accusation was unfounded, and it wasn’t the point

The anie It didn’t want a cure It wanted the ed to it To her

Ely sighed heavily and shook her head as she rose to her feet and carried a file to the large wood cabinet on the other side of the room