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And through it all Cassie stood still and silent, unsurprised as Jason gripped her neck and held her in front of hi that shot Thejust the right aer to ensure that a head shot would take her life as well His throat was blocked by her head, no way to take hiles And noas playing his hand

CHAPTER 24

Dawn heard Seth curse She felt Brian’s shock, his pain This was his nephew, his heir He was also the scourge of the Breed labs A figure so horrifying that the feht of him

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nbsp; He had been s, black mask he and his fellow rapists had worn Just in case, he had always laughed Sood little breed Kill me if you can

“Jason, what the hell are you doing?” Brian moved for his nephew, only to be jerked back by Seth and pushed to one of the Breeds that stood protectively around Seth

The other e As though he couldn’t believe his own blood could do such a thing As though he were fighting to convince hihtmare

Dawn could have assured hihtmare The monster that stood in the middle of the ballroom, Cassie as a shield in front of him, was very, very real

Jason sleam of triued in the eleven years since the news broke of the Breeds’ existence He had their most prized possession The feht, the wonder, of Cassie Sinclair

“It’s not Cassie you want, Phelps,” Seth bit out “You came for me Well, here I am”

“It never was you I was after, Lawrence,” he sneered with a laugh “Six tries and all of them failures? My little cat beside you can tell you, I never miss”

No, he didn’t He had killed Breeds Trained, wary Breeds who kneatch for him on missions He never missed He always had a plan and he had never failed She should have guessed She should have known that Seth wasn’t the target But how could he have guessed Cassie would be here?

The decision was made at the last moment No one had a clue that Cassie and her mother would arrive with Dash

She stared back at Phelps, trying to read the intent on his gloating face, seeing his sense of triuined he could?

As she watched hi her as though with a lover’s caress Her flesh crawled